Though most minors who have crossed the U.S. border without a parent or guardian are teenagers, the share of unaccompanied children 12 or younger has increased dramatically, according to a new Pew ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

Under that controversial policy, more than 2,000 children were separated from their parents at the border from April 19 to May 31, after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered federal ...

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 ...