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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Just a fraction of the migrant children who arrived in the United States without parents since the fall of 2013 have been placed in Arizona.
An analysis by The Associated Press found that 602 unaccompanied minors from mostly Central American countries have been placed with a parent or sponsor in the state.
The Border Patrol apprehended more than 100,000 youths traveling without a parent between October 2013 and February 2016.
The arrivals gained attention in the summer of 2014 as the Border Patrol in Texas, where many of the youths arrived, ran out of resources to process them, sending some to Arizona for a temporary stay.
Many anti-illegal-immigration activists in Arizona protested, even blocking a school bus full of local children from the YMCA after demonstrators mistook them for immigrants.
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