Supervisory Border Patrol agent Marlene Castro speaks to a group of unaccompanied minors who just crossed the Rio Grande illegally from Mexico into the United States, in Hidalgo County, Texas, on May 26, 2017. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times
WASHINGTON—Under the Obama administration, the discovery that unaccompanied children were entering the country, mostly illegally, across the Southwest border, and subsequently being placed with human-trafficking rings, galvanized a Senate subcommittee to investigate.
Three years and many recommendations later, the committee says not enough has changed.
