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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Kristina Cooke, Mica Rosenberg and Ted Hesson

Exclusive-Dozens of migrant children reported missing in Houston, raising alarms

FILE PHOTO: Unaccompanied migrant children from Central and South America stand in line as they await to be processed by border patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico, in Roma, Texas, U.S., April 9, 2022. REUTERS/Adrees Latif/File Photo

Federal and local officials are scrambling to locate close to a dozen unaccompanied migrant children, after Houston police raised concerns about dozens of migrant children reported missing in the Texas city since last year, according to U.S. government officials and related emails reviewed by Reuters.

The cases underscore the challenges for U.S. President Joe Biden's administration as it faces a record number of unaccompanied kids arriving at the southwest border it must safely and quickly release to sponsors in the United States.

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