North African Children Set Out for Europe in Flimsy Boat, Alone
Eleven Moroccan children were rescued by Spanish authorities near the exclave of Ceuta this week after they attempted to cross the Strait of Gibraltar alone in a small boat.

Eleven Moroccan children were rescued by Spanish authorities near the exclave of Ceuta this week after they attempted to cross the Strait of Gibraltar alone in a small boat.
Nearly 4,500 underage migrants who applied for asylum in Austria last year have reportedly gone missing, prompting concerns some may have fallen victim to human traffickers.
The migrant crime comments hate speech trial for French conservative commentator Eric Zemmour, a presidential hopeful, began on Wednesday.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) wrote a letter Friday to Vice President Kamala Harris requesting the administration terminate the federal border facility in Texas, which houses unaccompanied foreign minors.
Migrant minors are reportedly causing havoc in French prisons and juvenile detention centres, though some doubt the migrants are the age they claim to be.
An English couple visiting the French city of Calais were surprised after finding two teenage migrants had snuck into the rooftop cargo box of their car in an attempt to sneak into the UK.
Figures released by the Assembly of French Departments (ADF) have revealed that underage migrants cost French taxpayers two billion euros per year.
Wayfair workers plan a walkout on Wednesday to protest the company selling beds to camps on the U.S. border where children are being housed.
Paris police say they have arrested 1,552 Moroccan migrant minors so far in 2018 after cooperating with Moroccan authorities but have only managed to deport six.
President Donald Trump’s reforms to the country’s immigration and border system have increased the number of migrant youth who are living in government shelters significantly compared to last year.
School districts cannot use state funds to provide education services to unaccompanied alien children (UAC) housed in federal shelters, say Texas education officials.
President Donald Trump’s administration will soon build a tent city near the United States-Mexico border close to El Paso, Texas, that will house hundreds of young border crossers.
One Texas school district not only supports Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), its school board urged Congress to continue the Obama-era executive amnesty program which the Trump Administration plans to phase out within six months.
The number of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors the Obama administration is placing in communities across the U.S. is on pace to be twice as high as last year and rival the previously unprecedented levels reached in FY 2014.
The Department of Health and Human Services — the agency which places unaccompanied minors with relatives and sponsors in the U.S. — is pushing back against a proposal to fingerprint parents who claim custody of the migrant children, saying it could cause delays in family reunification.
The Obama administration returns very few migrant minors back to their home countries, even though record numbers of unaccompanied minors have entered the United States illegally in recent years.
Alabama’s senators are calling on the Obama administration to reject any proposals to house unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors at the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery.
As concerns mount about a renewed surge of illegal immigration, the Obama administration is considering housing unaccompanied minors detained illegally entering the U.S.-Mexico border at military bases throughout the U.S.