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Central American immigrant teenagers in Queens work overnight at under-the-table factory jobs to help families pay their bills and debts. Somehow the students make it to school the next morning.

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Children Fleeing Central America find Safe Haven in a Queens High School

March 24, 2016April 23, 2016 - by Aleksandra Konstantinovic

The Queens High School for Information, Research and Technology, a small, struggling school in Far Rockaway, took in a large percentage of the more than 700 Central American refugee children who flooded into the U.S. in the last two years.

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Undocumented Queens High School Kids Work Factory Jobs to Pay the Bills

Children Fleeing Central America find Safe Haven in a Queens High School