The 2014 American immigration crisis refers to the surge in unaccompanied children from Central America seeking entrance to the United States. The surge has increased rapidly, doubling in volume each year, reaching crisis proportions in 2014 when tens of thousands of women and children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras migrated to the United States. Many of the children had no parent/legal guardian available to provide care or physical custody and quickly overwhelmed local border patrols. As of February 2015, the number of unaccompanied children apprehended at the U.S. border had dropped by about 40%. The proportion of migrants from Guatemala had increased, while that of migrants from El Salvador and Honduras had decreased.