Category: unaccompanied children

4,100 Illegal Immigrants, Mostly Children, Crowded in a Border Facility Intended for 250

Over 4,100 illegal immigrants, more than 3,400 of them unaccompanied children with some as young as 3 years old, were being kept in an overly crowded border facility in the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday. Two journalists from the Associated Press and a crew from CBS were allowed to visit the facility in Donna, Texas,…


US Lacks Facilities for Spike in Unaccompanied Children at Border: Psaki

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that the United States doesn’t have enough facilities to house the influx of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. “There are more children coming across the border than we have facilities for at this point in time,” Psaki told reporters during a press briefing. According to…