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Life-Changing Journeys — Test

Question 16 • English Language Arts 10

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars." If many children don’t meet strict asylum criteria but face significant dangers if they return, the United States should consider allowing them to stay using humanitarian parole procedures we have employed in the past, for Cambodians and Haitians. It may be possible to transfer children and resettle them in other safe countries willing to share the burden. What is the author’s purpose in this excerpt?

Answer
A
to express an opinion about US asylum policies
B
to provide facts and details about Cambodian and Haitian children
C
to suggest a suspenseful atmosphere about the asylum process
D
to prompt feelings of sympathy in the reader
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