U.S. Department of Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Unaccompanied Alien Children Program Fact Sheet

In this fact sheet released May 30, 2014, the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement, (ORR) Unaccompanied Alien Child Program provided an overview of an inter-agency effort to address a humanitarian crisis due to an influx in the number of unaccompanied, undocumented children entering the United States at the southern border. Before 2012, there were from 7,000 to 8,000 such children annually. Starting in federal fiscal year 2012, the number of unaccompanied children seeking entry has doubled each year: 13,625 in 2012; rising to 24,668 in 2013; with the 2014 projection at . . .