Caroline Chen & Jess Ramirez

Caroline Chen covers health care for ProPublica.

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Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry on June 19th, 2018, in Tornillo, Texas.

Social Justice

Legal Filings Reveal That Immigrant Shelters Are Overmedicating Unaccompanied Minors

Lawsuits agains the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services reveal a pattern of immigrant shelters prescribing powerful psychotropic drugs without receiving informed consent.

By Caroline Chen & Jess Ramirez

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