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

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

tent-camps

Tent Camps, News on Tent Camps, stories on Tent Camps, articles on Tent Camps, Tent Camps stories at Wion, Tent Camps news, Tent Camps latest news

tent camps

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

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