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The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is holding a series of emergency conference calls with all departments and agencies of the federal government requiring them to search for and vet “properties to temporarily house [unaccompanied alien children]” because “the need for facilities continues to grow.”

Police in Värmland have revealed up to 25 per cent of their time and resources are spent on asylum seekers, as the Swedish government yesterday announced a further two billion Swedish Krona for policing to 2020. Lars Serenander, Chief Superintendent

The number of adults traveling with minors and “unaccompanied minors” apprehended illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border increased again last month, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB).

President Barack Obama’s decision to invite Central American relatives of traditionally unqualified immigrants — including the illegal immigrants protected by his executive amnesty — to the United States is unlawful and will worsen the tide of migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border, says Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

Instead of a swift removal from the U.S. back home, the Obama Administration, under the auspices of complying with a 2008 anti-trafficking law, has been transferring the illegal immigrants minors to the care of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)’ and then to parents and relatives living — in many cases illegally — in the U.S. already.

More than 33,000 unaccompanied minors apprehended illegally entering the United States have been released to – often other illegal immigrant – family members and sponsors throughout the country so far this fiscal year, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).

Last month CBP detained 40,366 illegal immigrants attempting to cross into the U.S. unlawfully, the most in a single month since July 2014. This fiscal year to date, CBP has apprehended 264,192 illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

In recent years the southern border has experienced as surge in unaccompanied minors and “families” — largely from Central America — illegally crossing into the U.S. Under current policy minors from noncontiguous countries are granted special treatment including being placed with sponsors and family members in the U.S. while they await immigration hearings. Additionally, a case settled nearly two decades ago — known as the Flores agreement — mandated the swift release of minors in custody.

According to recently released Customs and Border Patrol data, CBP made 38,135 apprehensions during the month of April, more than any single month in two years. The increases come as the Obama administration says it is working to reduce the flow of migrants from south of the border.

Local authorities in Germany have sounded the alarm on a “cost explosion” of unaccompanied migrant minors. The German Federation of Municipal Authorities has argued that the significantly increasing cost of the minors’ “all-round care” means a change in approach to

Amid increased waves of illegal immigration, the Obama administration is planning a new series of raids to remove hundreds of Central American minors and “families” who have already been ordered to leave the U.S.

With apprehension numbers exceeding the unprecedented highs reached in FY 2014, there are already murmurs that this year’s border surge in unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally could reach 100,000.

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.

As the influx of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors from Central America has increased, so too has the cost to assist each migrant, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies.

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.

A new Judicial Watch report reveals that the Centers for Disease Control warned government employees that the unaccompanied minors flooding across the border in recent years are carrying diseases, a claim dismissed by immigration activists.

Eighty percent of the unaccompanied minors apprehended illegally entering the U.S. in recent months have been placed in the care of other illegal immigrants, according to data obtained by the Associated Press.

While the number of unaccompanied minors from Central America illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has boomed — growing by more than 1,200 percent in the past four years — few have been returned to their home countries, according to a new government report.

The illegal immigrant charged with killing 21-year-old Sarah Root while street-racing drunk, entered the U.S. as an “unaccompanied child” three years ago, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Unaccompanied Central American minors leaving their home countries to migrate north are turning down Mexico’s offer of refuge and instead seeking to make it all the way to the United States, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies.

House Democrats are pushing an effort to provide unaccompanied minor illegal immigrants detained while illegally entering the U.S. with government-funded lawyers.

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.

A new bill to swiftly return illegal immigrant minors to their home countries has been introduced by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).

While Border Patrol has apprehended tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors illegally entering the United States in recent years, a mere fraction have been sent home, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) highlighted Tuesday.

Many of the record numbers of unaccompanied minors who were apprehended entering the United States illegally in recent years have failed to show up for immigration hearings, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reports.

The overwhelming majority of illegal immigrant children ordered removed by judges over the past year and half simply did not show up for their final hearings, according to the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).

Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants the government to provide certain illegal immigrants with government-funded lawyers.

Two Republican committee chairmen are demanding the immigration histories of two murder suspects in Massachusetts who are thought to have ties to the notorious MS-13 gang.

Terrorists are undoubtably taking note of the lack of immigration enforcement as the Obama administration allows record numbers of illegal immigrants to stream across the southern border and remain in the U.S., according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).

Overwhelmed by the surge of illegal immigrant youths at the U.S.-Mexico border, federal officials lowered safety standards and inadvertently placed unaccompanied minors in sponsors’ homes where they were abused, according to an Associated Press investigation.

The government tally of unaccompanied minors is slightly more straight-forward than the data for “family units.” While the totals of unaccompanied minors ostensibly show the number of immigrants detained at the border who under the age of 18 and without a parent or legal guardian. The “family unit” totals contain data of both children and adults.

The early months of Fiscal Year 2015 have experienced a dramatic increase in the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended at the border compared to the already high number detained in year’s past. The Obama administration will reportedly place as many as 1,000 minors in a warehouse at the Denver Federal Center, another 800 at a Homestead Job Corps site, and 400 at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

Central American consular officials are crying foul over the immigration raids aimed at deporting illegal aliens who entered the country during the recent immigration crisis and already have court issued deportation orders.

The $1.1 trillion year-end omnibus spending bill includes more funding to settle illegal immigrants in the United States.

As a growing group of unaccompanied minors from Central America are apprehended illegally entering the U.S. at the border, the Department of Health and Human Services is warning Congress that it might not have enough money to house them all,