Team Chalkbeat: SOLO: Unaccompanied Children Immigrating to the United States

Project Title: SOLO: Unaccompanied Children Immigrating to the U.S.

Authors Yesenia Robles, Hannah Brown, Jessie Kriebel, Kaley LaQuea

Project Description Our project is an explainer of unaccompanied children entering the U.S. including where they’re coming from and what their journey prior to placement with a sponsor looks like. We looked at available data on unaccompanied children statewide and by Colorado county.

Data Sources https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/Unaccompanied-Alien-Children-Program-Fact-Sheet.pdf; https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/unaccompanied-alien-children-released-to-sponsors-by-state; https://github.com/ColoradoMediaProject/migrahack/tree/master/youth/unaccompanied_minors