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Topeka Shelter Housing Kids Separated from Parents at U.S. Border

By Kansas News Service
Published June 21, 2018 at 10:03 PM CDT
The Villages has a shelter on a nature preserve on the west outskirts of Topeka. The nonprofit organization is taking in children in the custody of the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement who were separated from their parents at the border. (photo credit: Google)
The Villages has a shelter on a nature preserve on the west outskirts of Topeka. The nonprofit organization is taking in children in the custody of the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement who were separated from their parents at the border. (photo credit: Google)

A Topeka shelter is housing children separated from their parents at the southern U.S. border as a result of President Donald Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy. Madeline Fox of the Kansas News Service reports: 

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