U.S. caring for more than 100 unaccompanied Afghan children

The federal government is currently caring for more than 100 Afghan children who arrived in the U.S. without their parents, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Wednesday.

While the vast majority of Afghan evacuees arriving in the U.S. this summer have been families and adults, some evacuated children have been entering the country without their parents, prompting U.S. immigration authorities to designate them as unaccompanied minors. The "majority" of those children have been quickly reunited with non-parental relatives who were also evacuated and relocated to the U.S., HHS said. Others who don't have family in the U.S. will remain in the custody of HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement until they turn 18 or a suitable sponsor can be located.