This is a line chart that shows how many Unaccompanied Children were released to sponsors in the United States, broken down by fiscal year, from FY2015 to FY2022. Fiscal Year 2022 saw the most, with 127,447 children.

Unaccompanied Children released to sponsors in the U.S. by fiscal year

More than 480,000 unaccompanied children have been released to sponsors in the U.S. since Oct. 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

HHS provides data broken down by federal government fiscal year, which runs from October to September.
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