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The total amounts to more than 140 unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S. border every day.

Most of the children come from three countries El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that are extremely pained with widespread poverty, rampant gang violence and some of the highest crime rates in the world.

Statistics from the Unites States Border Patrol show that while the overall number of people detained at the southwestern border has dropped in recent years, the number of unaccompanied children has roughly doubled.

Nearly 26,000 unaccompanied children arrived at the U.S. southwestern border in the first half of this year, in a continuing influx of migrants attempting to escape poverty and violence in their home countries.

For those allowed to stay, a backlog in immigration courts can mean years of waiting, during which time the children have no legal status in the United States, making many ineligible for healthcare and other public services.

Honduras registered one of the highest murder rates in the world more than 90 per 100,000 inhabitants in a United Nations study published in 2014. This compares to a current murder rate of just 4.5 in the U.S. according to the most recent national crime statistics published by the FBI.

Missing in these figures, UNICEF says are the estimated hundreds of children who die every year in the harsh environment along the U.S.-Mexico border, and many more who disappear and may have fallen prey to kidnapping, trafficking or murder.

 

In 2012, just over 24,000 unaccompanied children were detained. This number soared to more than 68,000 in 2014, before dropping last year. This year could see that number pick up again, as the data show that child detentions are on pace to top 50,000 by the end of the government's fiscal year.