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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.

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.

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 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

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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.

Another group of unaccompanied migrant children seeking asylum in the United States is expected Sunday in San Diego. They will be sheltered temporarily at the San Diego Convention Center before being reunited with family elsewhere in the country or moved into sponsor homes.

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.

After entering into a contract with the Feds to house hundreds of unaccompanied minors, Long Beach city leaders are now working with partners to turn the empty Convention Center into a vast child care facility. Beverly White reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on April 8, 2021.

U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March

Lawyers tasked with reuniting migrant families separated during the Trump administration said in a federal court filing late Wednesday that they have recently contacted the parents of 61 more children, NBC News reports.

The Long Beach Convention Center would become a designated emergency shelter site for an overwhelming number of migrant children arriving from Mexico, under a proposal being considered Tuesday by the Long Beach City Council.

City leaders voted unanimously to allow migrant children to stay at the city’s convention center. Beverly White reported on NBC4 News on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.

The city council is set to vote on temporarily housing migrant children Tuesday. John Cadiz Klemack reports April 6, 2021.