The number of unaccompanied minors referred to the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency tasked with caring for them once they cross the border, climbed from 1,530 in October to 3,364 in ...

Nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children entered U.S. custody along the southern border in March, an all-time monthly high that has forced the Biden administration to house migrant teenagers in ...

New challenges await unaccompanied migrant children as immigration policy shifts. At the end of March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it was ending a contract that ...

Unaccompanied minors released to sponsors by state, per 100,000 residents From October 2014 through December 2020, more than 250,000 minors were released to sponsors in the United States.

Children can fly on their own years before they're old enough to drive. Airlines allow children to fly without a parent or guardian through their unaccompanied minors services.

Late Tuesday 500 unaccompanied minors were brought to Fort Bliss, Texas, which will house boys between 13 and 17. The facility can house as many as 5,000 children.

There are more than 5,000 unaccompanied children in US Customs and Border Protection custody, according to documents obtained by CNN, up from 4,500 children days earlier.

The Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program, overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has more stringent vetting and oversight than state-level foster care, said Lisa Koop ...

Between 14,000 and 19,000 unaccompanied minors have crossed the border each month — numbers far above the 3,000 to 6,000 who have arrived in an average month over the past 10 years.

Since then, CBP has apprehended 17,144 unaccompanied minors in April (571 stops per day); 14,137 in May (456 stops per day) and 15,253 in June (508 stops per day).

A group of men, women and children are led by U.S. border patrol agents and police to a holding area after they crossed into the U.S. to seek asylum. A new policy may strip unaccompanied minors of ...

There are more than 5,000 unaccompanied children in US Customs and Border Protection custody, according to documents obtained by CNN, up from 4,500 children days earlier.