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Border crisis 101: eight things to know about unaccompanied children

Here’s a look at today’s immigration crisis and how it compares to the recent past.

3. Where are these children from, and where are they going on the border?

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A Guatemalan child deported from the United State poses for photo in front of a map in the immigration shelter in Guatemala City last month.

An unprecedented number are now from Central America. In FY 2004, 83 percent were Mexican. So far in FY 2014, just 24 percent were from Mexico, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.

The biggest flood of unaccompanied children has occurred in the Rio Grande, Texas, border sector. Between FY 2013 and 2014, about 93 percent of the increase in apprehensions has taken place there.

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