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Her sons held hands, cried and crossed the border alone

Young children rest inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021.

Border facilities holding migrant children are 'stretched beyond thin' with 'profound overcrowding,' court monitors say

CNN obscured the faces of the individuals to protect their identities.

We met migrant teens who just crossed the border in Texas. Here's what they told us

BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 25: A U.S. Border Patrol agent releases a young asylum seeker with her family at a bus station on February 25, 2021 in Brownsville, Texas. U.S. immigration authorities are now releasing asylum seeking families after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border and taken into custody. The immigrant families are then free to travel to destinations throughout the U.S. while awaiting asylum hearings. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)