➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Opinion: Protecting Unaccompanied Child Migrants From Sex Abuse
Center for American Progress – May 23, 2016
The number of unaccompanied children apprehended at the southwest border of the United States by U.S. Border Patrol is again on the rise. So far this fiscal year, 27,754 unaccompanied children have been apprehended — most of whom were fleeing three of the five most dangerous countries in the Western Hemisphere: El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2016/05/12/137356/how-overly-broad-religious-exemptions-are-putting-children-at-risk-of-sexual-abuse/