Category: unaccompanied minors

Minister Dodges Questions on Missing Unaccompanied Minor Immigrants

The immigration minister has dodged questions on the number of unaccompanied minor immigrants currently missing in the UK. Robert Jenrick was asked by several MPs on the current figures following reports that 400 children who arrived in Britain unaccompanied had disappeared. In January Jenrick told MPs that of the 4,600 unaccompanied minors who arrived in…


IN-DEPTH: What Happens to Unaccompanied Minors Who Illegally Enter the US

With thousands of people entering the United States illegally, every town is a potential border town faced with absorbing large influxes of illegal immigrants who will need food, shelter, clothing, and money. Some are bused to large cities far from the border, some have been flown—often in the middle of the night—to a myriad of…


Federal Government Transported Dozens of Unaccompanied Minor Illegal Immigrants to New York

Federal agencies moved dozens of unaccompanied illegal immigrant teens to New York without providing any advance notice to relevant officials about their arrival, the New York Post reported. On Friday, two planes each carrying about 24 unaccompanied teens landed at the Orange County Airport in Montgomery, New York, County Executive Steve Neuhaus, a Republican, told…


US Government Transported Dozens of Unaccompanied Minor Illegal Immigrants to NY: Report

Federal agencies moved dozens of unaccompanied illegal immigrant teens to New York state without providing any advance notice to relevant officials about their arrival, the New York Post reported. On Oct. 7, two planes, each carrying about 24 unaccompanied teens, landed at the Orange County Airport, County Executive Steve Neuhaus, a Republican, told the newspaper….


Audio Released Detailing Complaints of Abuse of Unaccompanied Minors at Migrant Facility

After two federal workers came forward as whistleblowers filing a complaint with Congress over how unaccompanied minors are being treated at a temporary facility at Fort Bliss, audio recordings of conversations have been released and published by NBC News. Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas, and part of the largest Department of Defense “controlled airspace”…


Biden Admin Threatens Lawsuit Against Texas Over Shelters for Unaccompanied Minors

The Biden administration on Monday said it may file a lawsuit against Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed an order to pull state licenses for shelters that house unaccompanied minors who recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. Late last month, Abbott signed an order mandating that officials need to end state licenses for the shelters…


Texas Ranchers Find 5 Unaccompanied Minors Abandoned on Land

Five unaccompanied minors, all under 7 years old, were abandoned overnight on a farm near the Rio Grande River along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a Texas couple who found the children on their land Sunday morning. “This baby and four others under four years old dumped like trash by the river on our farm!…


GOP Senators Urge Biden to Take Swift Action to Address ‘Tragedy’ at Southern Border

A coalition of Republican senators who recently visited the southern border is urging President Joe Biden to take swift action and reverse his policy decisions that they say has caused the significant surge in illegal immigration in recent months. The ten senators penned a letter to the White House detailing a harrowing account of their…


Number of Children Arriving at Border Higher Than Expected: White House

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border was higher than the Biden administration had anticipated. Psaki made the remarks at a briefing at which she was asked to clarify the administration’s position on maintaining a Trump-era refugee cap of 15,000 admissions until May…


US Spending Tens of Millions Per Week on Unaccompanied Minors

President Joe Biden’s administration is spending roughly $60 million a week to shelter illegal immigrant children who cross into the country from Mexico. Known as unaccompanied children, caring for the minors has driven the price tag for immigration-related expenses up sharply as U.S. officials grapple with the surge that some experts and Republicans say stems…