Jessica Vaughan is the Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies with an area of expertise in immigration policy and operations. Prior to joining the Center she was a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department.--Much media coverage has been given to the topic of unaccompanied alien children that are being detained at the U.S. southern border. The Trump administration has labeled this as a crisis yet the media, along with some members of Congress, seem to be just catching on to this fact.