Single minor anxiety up 354% since 2020

YUMA, AZ (KECY, KYMA) – Over 300,000 immigrant children have appeared alone at the border in the last three years.

Sometimes they are accompanied by other immigrants across the border, or they are dropped off alone.

video A video released by the Border Patrol in March showed smugglers leaving a one-year-old immigrant child alone against a wall.

That kid was one of them. More than 3,000 single minors on local border patrols protected this year.

In 2020, 33,000 unaccompanied migrants were arrested at the southwestern border.

By 2022, that number will increase by 354% to 152,000.

Senators and Witnesses in Washington DC A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing played a game of holding the border accountable for the increase.

California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla said: “The immigration system has become so restrictive under Trump that families can’t come to the border together to apply for asylum, and parents can’t help their children. I had to send it alone,” he said.

Some blamed President Biden because the numbers skyrocketed shortly after he took office.

“Like the border crisis itself, the administration’s response to unaccompanied minors is intentional,” said Lora Reis of the Heritage Foundation.

But compromises are hard to come by, and so far this year, Senate Judiciary Committee Proposes 43 Immigration Billsand only one passed through one Congress.