President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to track down unaccompanied immigrant children and demand their appearance in court or deportation. Unaccompanied minors are children who enter the U.

The Trump administration is directing immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, expanding the president's mass deportation effort,

There are more than 600,000 migrant children who have crossed the southern border without a legal guardian or parent since 2019, according to government data.