About 10588 unaccompanied children crossed the US-Mexico border in October and November,more than double who crossed during the same period final yearThe seven children had just crossed the river, shoes still caked with mud, and when US border patrol agents stopped them.
The youngest was six,Jon Smith Figueroa Acosta, he said, or he’d made the 2000-mile journey from Honduras. He did not know to what city or state he was headed,but he had a phone number for his father in the United States.
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Source: theguardian.com