US government searches for migrant children as deportations mount

An alphabet soup of U.S. agencies is tracking down immigrant children who arrived in this country without a parent or guardian and were eventually released from government custody.

The Trump administration says it wants to fight fraudulent sponsors, protect vulnerable minors from abuse, and deport those who have committed crimes. Meanwhile, immigrant advocates say the government is complicating children's access to lawyers as it steps up efforts to send many of them home.

The government has detained unaccompanied minors and sent them back to their countries at about three times the rate of the first Trump term, according to a recent ProPublica analysis.