“These under-12-year-old children who are coming across the border unaccompanied, many of them are coming from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador,” said one of the authors of the ...

James Keivom The new faces of the southern border crisis belong to a pair of kids — one just a toddler — who were rescued as they wandered alone, scared and hungry along a chain-link fence ...

Eight kids left. That’s how many children the ... father and son from Honduras into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border, June 12, 2018, near Mission, Texas. The asylum seekers were then sent ...

The Border Patrol encountered 18,663 unaccompanied children in March ... compared with a 7% pre-pandemic recidivism rate for the 12-month period that ended in September 2019.

More than 100 unaccompanied children have been found at the southern border since November 24 ... of people and drugs into the state. Update 12/02/24 1:12 p.m. ET: This article was updated ...

WASHINGTON — The number of undocumented immigrants crossing the southern border last month was the highest total for February in 12 years ... at legal entry points. Children traveling ...

associate director of K-12 education research at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, in an email. Children who come across the southern border are protected from immediate removal in ...

The issue of when the children are officially in Border Patrol custody is particularly ... decision is to provide or withhold care," the 12-page order read. "Juveniles, unlike adults, are always ...