Increasing Numbers Of Unaccompanied Children At The Southwest Border – Analysis

By William A. Kandel

Since early 2021, annual encounters involving unaccompanied alien children (UC, unaccompanied children) at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have remained at record-high levels (Figure 1).

Encounters include both Title...