70,000 Kids Will Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year. What Happens to Them? Map: These Are the Places Central American Child Migrants Are Fleeing Why Our Immigration Courts Can't Handle the Child Migrant Crisis Are the Kids Showing Up at the Border Really Refugees? Child Migrants Have Been Coming to America Alone Since Ellis Island See MoJo's full coverage of the surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America. The federal government will tell you that it has heard the cries of the anti-immigrant protesters and created policies to slow down the surge of children picked up by the US Border Patrol.