The U.S. has another growing child migrant crisis on its hands

• These shelters are already plagued with scandal. In the past, shelters that were quickly opened due to overcrowding resulted in insufficient background checks for personnel and put kids at risk of health and safety dangers, according to the Chronicle.
• Last year —in the face of a record-breaking numbers of migrant kids in its custody —the U.S. was forced to build a "tent city" in Tornillo, Texas to hold hundreds of migrant children. It closed just earlier this year after the child migrant population fell.

The bottom line: U.S. government agencies charged with implementing immigration policies, protecting the border, detaining immigrants and caring for migrant children are overwhelmed and struggling to handle the surge of migrant families and children crossing the southern border.