migrant children

U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March

Lawyers tasked with reuniting migrant families separated during the Trump administration said in a federal court filing late Wednesday that they have recently contacted the parents of 61 more children, NBC News reports.

A pair of siblings were part of the growing number of unaccompanied minors making their way to the U.S. border from Central America.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on services that help immigrant children reunite with their families.

The Biden administration’s head of Homeland Security is defending a policy of allowing unaccompanied children crossing the southwest border to remain in the U.S. while quickly expelling most single adults and families

The Biden administration hopes to relieve the strain of thousands of unaccompanied children coming to the southern border by terminating a 2018 Trump-era order that discouraged potential family sponsors from coming forward to house the children

A record number of unaccompanied migrant children are in Border Patrol custody and shelter beds are scarce, raising fears of a new humanitarian crisis at the southern border.

The Biden administration’s task force for reuniting migrant families separated by the Trump administration will allow separated families “the option of being reunified either in the United States or their county of origin,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at a news briefing on Monday.

With its long-term facilities for immigrant children nearly full, the Biden administration is working to expedite the release of children to their relatives in the U.S. U.S. Health and Human Services on Wednesday authorized operators of long-term facilities to pay for some of the children’s flights and transportation to the homes of their sponsors

The United Nations and other organizations are applauding changes to Mexico’s immigration law that would prohibit holding migrant children in immigration detention centers

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, more than two-thirds of the 1,000-plus parents separated from their migrant children have yet to be found. Lee Gelernt, the ACLU lawyer leading the court challenge to the Trump Administration’s family separation policy, explains why it has been so difficult to reunite these families and how the separations have caused lasting damage.

Lawyers working to reunite migrant families separated by the Trump administration before and during its “zero tolerance” policy at the border now believe the number of separated children for whom they have not been able to find parents is 666, higher than they told a federal judge last month, according to an email obtained by NBC News. About one third…