The unaccompanied children arriving in Los Angeles County over the weekend hail from Central America and range between the ages of 7 and 14.
Cots and stuffed animals await unaccompanied immigrant children at a temporary emergency shelter at the Pomona Fairplex in Los Angeles County. Some 250 children will arrive at the facility on May 1. (Courthouse News photo / Nathan Solis)
POMONA, Calif. (CN) — Two-hundred fifty unaccompanied immigrant children from El Salvador, Guatemala and other Central American countries are set to arrive at a temporary emergency shelter in Los Angeles County on Saturday.
The Pomona Fairplex is the second LA County location to welcome unaccompanied children feeling violence, poverty and other conflicts from their home countries.