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Deported Students Find Challenges At School In Tijuana

More than half a million children born in the U.S. have ended up in Mexico because their parents were deported.
Students raise their hands at the Escuela 20 Noviembre school in Tijuana, Mexico.

As President Trump moves to fulfill his campaign promise to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally, they'll most likely include Mexicans whose children were born in the U.S.. Over half a million of these kids are already in Mexico.

Researchers call them "", the invisible ones, because they often end up in an educational limbo of sorts. Most don't read or write in Spanish, so they're held back. Many get discouraged and stop going to

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