Across the country over the next year, federal agencies expect to manage about 60,000 minors who entered or will arrive in the United States without an adult guardian. That figure compares with about 7,500 who came in annually before the numbers surged to 13,625 last year and about 25,000 in the current year.
"We welcome the new youth with open arms in LAUSD," Deasy said last week in an interview with reporters and editors at The Times.
Many unaccompanied minors land in Southern California; here they can be cared for by relatives who are part of well-established expatriate communities from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras ā the impoverished and sometimes violent countries from which most have journeyed.
[For more of this story, written by Howard Blume, go to http://www.latimes.com/local/e...14-story.html#page=1]
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