migrant children

The Biden administration has released a plan to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation

Migrants, mostly Haitians but also some Cubans, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans, are crossing the Rio Grande back into Mexico to stock up on essentials they say they are not receiving on the American side of the border.

Some immigrant teens say they’ve waited weeks or months in massive facilities and don’t know when they’ll be released to relatives in the United States

A Justice Department attorney says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will issue an order this week about how migrant children are treated under a public health order that has prevented people from seeking asylum at the nation’s borders

Children housed in one of the Biden administration’s largest shelters for unaccompanied migrant minors were being watched over by contractors with no Spanish-language skills or experience in child care who usually stood idly at the edge of crowded tents, according to two federal workers who have come forward to file a whistleblower complaint to Congress.

The Biden administration has given a rare look inside an emergency shelter it opened to house migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone

The LA City Council voted to renew a pilot program offering housing navigation services to unaccompanied and homeless immigrants between age 16 and 24.

Nearly 600 migrant children who were housed at an intake center at the Long Beach Convention Center have been reunited with family or sponsors in the United States, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which operates the site, reported Friday.

The Pomona Fairplex now joins the Long Beach Convention Center as one of two locations in all of LA County where they will be welcoming in unaccompanied migrant children. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on April 30, 2021.

The Long Beach Convention Center is now a temporary home to 150 migrant children who arrived on buses Thursday night.

The Long Beach Convention Center is now a temporary home to 150 migrant children who arrived Thursday night. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on April 23, 2021.

As many as 150 migrant children were expected to arrive at the Long Beach Convention Center Thursday, beginning its operation as a shelter that will house unaccompanied minors from the border until they can be reunited with family or placed with sponsors. Hetty Chang ​reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on April 22, 2021.

Dozens of migrant children began arriving Thursday to a shelter set up at the Long Beach Convention Center, designed to give the children a temporary place to stay until they can be placed with family members or a U.S. sponsor. Ted Chen reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on April 22, 2021.

The city of Long Beach is partnering up with the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau to launch a book donation drive to support the migrant children arriving this week to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shelter at the Long Beach Convention Center.

More than a thousand unaccompanied children are expected to arrive in the coming days. Hetty Chang reported on NBC4 News on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.

Long Beach city officials expect to provide an update Thursday after they have been working around the clock to prepare for the arrival of migrant children, which could happen in the next couple of days.

Long Beach officials launched an online portal Monday with details on how community members, local organizations and businesses can help support the migrant children from the Mexican border who will be temporarily sheltered at the city’s convention center.

U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has transferred about 300 teenage girls who had arrived this month at the San Diego Convention Center to a facility in Texas to make room for younger children.

The Fairplex in Pomona will serve as an emergency intake site to temporarily house unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda L. Solis announced Thursday.