Nearly 300 children have died in the six months of 2023 while crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, reported the United Nations children’s agency, on Friday (July 14); the toll being the double when compared to the casualties in the same period last year.

Nearly 300 children died this year trying to cross Mediterranean Sea: UN

According to US government officials and related emails examined by Reuters, federal and local authorities are frantically trying to find nearly a dozen unaccompanied migrant children after Houston police voiced concerns about dozens of migrant children reported missing in the Texas city since last year.

Dozens of missing migrant children in Houston raises alarm, likely crossed border unaccompanied

Migrant children sent to emergency shelters within the United States reported crowded living conditions, spoiled food, lack of clean clothes and struggles with depression, according to 17 testimonials filed in a court case on Monday.

Migrant children report overcrowding, spoiled food, depression in US shelters

As the US faced a migrant crisis, several pictures and reports came to the surface that showed unaccompanied migrant children being forced to spend nights in parked busses at the Dallas convention center.

Reports of migrant children packed in buses 'unacceptable, says US agency

The United Nations Children’s Fund said on Monday that with an average of 275 minors entering the country every day the number of migrant children arriving in Mexico and hoping to enter the United States has increased ninefold from January to March this year.

Number of migrant children at Mexico-US border increases nine-fold this year

Amidst a sharp rise in illegal border crossings over the past few months, the Biden administration is reviewing cases of nearly about 5,600 migrant children to see whether they were separated from their parents at the border under the Trump administration.

US probes cases of family separation: 5600 migrant children cases under review

Migrant children and families are sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on mats in a Texas border facility designed for 250 people that is now holding more than 4,100, according to some of the first photographs to emerge from the crowded camp that has become a focal point of the Biden administration’s struggles to absorb thousands of new arrivals on the southwestern border.

‘No place for a child’: Inside the tent camp housing thousands of migrant children

The U.S. government is evaluating whether to house unaccompanied migrant children at a military base in Virginia amid a sharp rise in migrants arriving at the U.

US considering use of Virginia military base to house migrant children

Guatemalan security forces on Monday (January 18) cleared a road of hundreds of people in a mostly Honduran migrant caravan that had camped out overnight when authorities barred it from advancing toward the United States.

Migrant children wave white flags at Guatemala border after violent showdown with caravan

A court in Los Angeles has ordered the release of more than 100 children held in United States family immigration detention as they risk catching coronavirus in the facilities, reported news agency AFP.

Los Angeles orders US to free more than 100 migrant children from detention

Nearly 1,000 migrant children have been separated from their families at the US-Mexico border in the last year despite a judge's order for President Donald Trump's administration to stop the practice, a top rights group said Tuesday.

Nearly 1,000 migrant children separated from parents by US government in last year

The Trump administration is suspending educational, legal and recreational programs for migrant children in its custody, saying an influx of children crossing the border without a parent or legal guardian was putting a "tremendous strain" on the resources of the agency tasked with housing them.

Trump administration suspends US educational programs for migrant children

US immigration authorities arrested 170 people between early July and late November who came forward to claim migrant children in government custody, according to official data released on Monday, crackdown advocates say is discouraging relatives from volunteering to take in some of the 14,000 detained children.

US arrests 170 immigrants who tried to claim migrant children

Children, the other side of the migrant caravan in Tijuana

Avramopoulos urged politicians in the 28 member states to go against a rising tide of populism on the continent

EU must help 'abused' migrant children: Commissioner

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