unaccompanied minor children

Weekly Immigration News: Finding a Place for Migrant Children

As the migration crisis at the southern border continues and unaccompanied children from Trump-era family separations remain apart from their parents, the number of migrant children in the United States is increasing at an alarming rate, quickly outpacing the resources of the US government. According to new government data, almost 19,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the southern border in March. This record number of people has driven the Biden administration...

#WhereAreTheChildren? The Kids Are Alright

We’ve seen a week of mass hysteria, propagated by many well-intentioned people, about how the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) lost around 1,500 migrant kids due to new policy whereby children are separated from their families at the border. Lets get one thing out of the way: This is not true. The so-called “missing children” — unaccompanied minors released from ORR custody — have nothing to do with the...