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Take Two

What happens to unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border?

By Take Two Staff
Published Jun 5, 2014
Salvadorean migrants run to jump on a train to the border with the United States, in Lecheria, 30 km north of Mexico City, on June 1, 2010. On a visit to Washington in May, Mexican President Felipe Calderon urged the US government to repair an outmoded immigration system and do more to ensure that illegal guns do not flow across the countries' shared border.
Salvadoran migrants run to jump on a train to the border with the United States, in Lecheria, 30 km north of Mexico City, on June 1, 2010.
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What happens to unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border?

The number of unaccompanied children coming across the U.S.-Mexico border has spiked in recent months.

As many as 60,000 kids could be apprehended crossing the border this year, officials say, which is nearly 10 times the number that came in 2011.

RELATED: Emergency shelter for unaccompanied migrant kids opening in Ventura County

Federal agents are having a tough time processing all of these kids and finding places to house them. One measure includes using two military bases as temporary shelters, and one is here in California's Ventura County.

KPCC's Immigration and Emerging Communities Reporter Leslie Berestein-Rojas explains to Alex Cohen what this facility looks like and what happens to children staying there.

Then, A Martinez speaks with Wendy Young of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), which provides free legal support to these children. Young says that the number of kids is increasing so rapidly, her lawyers can't keep up.