Unaccompanied Migrant Child Apprehensions at U.S. Border Spike 636% in 2021
Randy Clark5 Oct 202119
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The U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) released 119,228 Unaccompanied Migrant Children (UAC) to sponsors as of the end of the 2021 fiscal year in September. The number does not include children who are citizens of Mexico already returned to their home country.
Much like the record-breaking apprehensions made by the Border Patrol during the fiscal year, the number of unaccompanied migrant children arrested crossing the border pales in comparison to previous records. The UACs account for nearly 9 percent of all southwest border migrant apprehensions. Nearly 11,000 unaccompanied migrant children were released to sponsors in September alone. There were 13,101 children still being held in federal detention still awaiting release, as of Friday.
By comparison, last fiscal year, 16,198 non-Mexican unaccompanied migrant children were apprehended, with most being swiftly returned to Mexico or their home country under the Title 42 Centers for Disease Control’s emergency COVID-19 order. The number of non-Mexican UAC apprehensions arrested this year increased by more than 630 percent when compared to last year’s total.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/10/05/unaccompanied-migrant-child-apprehensions-at-u-s-border-spike-636-in-2021/
