Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The number of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S. border in South Texas has declined over the past 10 days, authorities said.
That’s good news for an agency that has become overwhelmed by a surge of children entering the country without their parents, Fox New reports.
Since October, federal authorities have arrested more than 57,000 undocumented children.
Border Patrol also converted a 55,000-square-foot warehouse to temporarily house up to 1,000 children.
“We arrested 80 juveniles yesterday, so within the last 10 days we’ve seen a decrease in the number of juveniles arrested,” Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector Chief Kevin Oaks
The Los Angeles Times toured the facility in McAllen, Texas, where squalid, cramped conditions were reported earlier in the month because of the immigration surge from Central America.
