Unaccompanied child immigrants in the united states although unaccompanied children come to the united states from all over the world between 73 and 75 percent of unaccompanied children are boys from el salvador honduras and mexico according to the office of refugee resettlement orr in 2009 around 80 percent were between the ages of 15 and 18 since many boys begin working around these ages and since travel is safer for boys they are more likely than girls to migrate alone. Immigration in the 21st century political introduction 1 unaccompanied alien children free book unaccompanied alien children in the united states issues and trends immigration in the 21st century political uploaded by stan and jan berenstain the number of unaccompanied alien children uac arriving in the united states has reached alarming numbers that has strained the system put in place over the past decade to. Aronson explained that these children are labeled as unaccompanied when they are under age 18 lack legal status and do not have a legal parent or guardian living in the united states however because it is very difficult to locate family members and find out if a legal guardian is living in the us often a large number of these children are detained despite actually having family in . In recent years we have seen the administration unabashedly use unaccompanied children as bait to arrest and detain their loved ones secure more funding for immigration enforcement and racially profile teens in order to significantly reduce their shot at due process in immigration court unaccompanied children seeking safety in the united states do not have the right to appointed counsel in immigration court even as they face an immigration judge and government funded prosecutor to help . Acfs office of refugee resettlement orr in the us department of health and human services provides funding and oversight to state licensed shelters throughout the united states for children referred to orr by the department of homeland security the children are known as unaccompanied alien children uac they include both children who enter the country without their parent or legal guardian and children who for other reasons have been separated from their parent or legal guardian