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About 8,800 unaccompanied children are expelled at US border

| September 12, 2020 12:06 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — About 8,800 unaccompanied children have been quickly expelled from the United States along the Mexico border under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum, authorities said Friday.

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