Whistleblowers detailed how migrant kids housed in one of the Biden administration's largest migrant shelters in Texas are experiencing poor hygiene care.
Hopes were crushed when some illegal migrants were deported back to Mexico after spending most of their savings to pay human smugglers to bring them to the U.S.
Human Rights Watch filed an amicus brief in a federal appeals court accusing the U.S. government of denying migrant children the right to legal representation in immigration court where they faced deportation.
The U.S. government is expected to appeal a federal court ruling ordering the immediate release of undocumented mothers and immigrant children from family detention centers.
Mexican migrants have entered the U.S. in large numbers, but the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs revealed the second most common native country is not from Latin America.
Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry has voiced his disapproval of President Barack Obama's request to Congress for $3.7 billion to tackle the influx of unaccompanied child migrants coming to the United States.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson visited Border Patrol facilities in Arizona Wednesday in an attempt to address the growing issue of unaccompanied migrant children crossing into the United States.
Hillary Clinton said in an interview Tuesday that unaccompanied migrant children should be sent back to their home countries. The number of migrant children crossing the border unaccompanied has risen dramatically over the past year.
