July 31, 2014
Between Oct. 1, 2013 and June 15, 2014, over 52,000 children were apprehended at the U.S-Mexico border, and in 2014, an estimated 70,500 children are expected to be apprehended at the border.
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Officials, Local Organizations Search for Housing for Migrant Children
City of Chicago officials and other local organizations reportedly are working to find one or more sites that could hold up to 1,000 beds for hundreds of unaccompanied children migrating from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border in the coming year.