Immigration

2-year-old found at border without parents

By Anna Giaritelli
Published December 11, 2018 7:18pm ET
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2-year-old found at border without parents
A child, who is part of the Central American migrant caravan, sits in a stroller wrapped in a reflective blanket as protection from the rain at a sports complex where more than 5,000 Central American migrants are sheltering in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. | (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A 2-year-old child who was found in a group of migrants apprehended near the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern California two weeks ago remains in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody as federal officials search for her parents.

The toddler was found when Border Patrol agents based out of Campo, Calif., took six people into custody approximately two miles north of the international border Nov. 27. The migrants told agents they had traveled from Central America with one of the caravan groups.

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