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Naila Amin, 26, looks out from a classroom window at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y. She was forcibly married at 13 in Pakistan and applied for papers for her 26-year-old husband to come to the country. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

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U.S. approved thousands of child bride requests
Requests to bring in child brides OK’d; legal under US laws

Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press.

By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press January 11, 2019