The following reading passage taken from paragraph 17 of "The Boy Left Behind" mainly discusses
"Many go north seeking work. Others flee abusive families. Most of the Central
Americans go to reunite with a parent, say counselors at a detention center in Texas
where the INS houses the largest number of the unaccompanied children it catches.
Of those, the counselors say, 75 percent are looking for their mothers. Some children
say they need to find out whether their mothers still love them. A priest at a Texas
shelter says they often bring pictures of themselves in their mothers' arms."
O the reasons why the mothers leave their children
O the United States programs for helping migrant children
O the United States programs for helping migrant children
O information on migrant children looking for their parents