Thousands of unaccompanied minors are crossing the border into the U.S. to flee the violence in their Central American countries because of gangs and civil wars.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimated that nearly 70,000 unaccompanied alien children were apprehended at the southern border during the 2014 fiscal year, a 77 percent increase from the year before.
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