US border authorities see spike in unaccompanied minors from Mexico
(WorldNews Mexico)

TIJUANA, Mexico - It´s 10 a.m., but it´s still pretty early for a group of teenage boys who are just waking up inside a migrant shelter for unaccompanied children along a busy highway in Tijuana. At Casa YMCA de Menores Migrantes, the three Mexican teenage boys - aged 15, 16 and 17 - check their phones as they slowly sit up and stretch their feet out over the edge of their bunk beds. `About 80% of the kids we receive here are Mexicans, girls and boys and adolescents, between the ages of 12 and 17 who are deported from the United States and they arrive every morning,` said Valeria Ruiz, the new director of Casa YMCA, the only shelter in Tijuana for under-aged migrants. Like thousands of other...