A 15-year-old migrant boy is missing after running away from a Texas children’s shelter

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• A 15-year-old migrant boy reportedly left a Brownsville, Texas, children's shelter and is missing.
• The Casa Padre shelter has attracted nationwide attention under the Trump administration's border crackdown, and houses nearly 1,500 boys.
• The shelter's spokesman said that staff cannot legally force children to stay.
• The missing 15-year-old boy reportedly arrived in the US unaccompanied and was not separated from his parents by immigration authorities.

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A 15-year-old boy has reportedly gone missing after leaving a children's shelter for migrants in Brownsville, Texas.

He walked away from the shelter on Saturday afternoon, prompting officials at the Casa Padre shelter to call authorities, a spokesman for the shelter told media.

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