Increasing Numbers Of Unaccompanied Alien Children At US Southwest Border – Analysis

By William A. Kandel*

In the first five months of FY2021, encounters (apprehensions or expulsions) of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) at the U.S.-Mexico border with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are approaching a level close to that for all of FY2020. While the...