Feds order review of security at all facilities holding illegal immigrant children after two Guatemalan teens escape and carjack a 91-year-old

Two teenage asylum seekers from Guatemala have escaped a detention center in Illinois and carjacked a 91-year-old Navy veteran. The incident has prompted the federal government to order a security review at all 139 shelters across the country that house illegal immigrant minors, MailOnline can exclusively reveal. The boys, age 16 and 17, were able to walk away unchallenged from Maryville Academy in Des Plaines, Illinois, outside Chicago, on Wednesday morning and carjack two victims before they were arrested more than 225 miles away outside Iowa City, Iowa, according to authorities. More than 60,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America have poured across the US-Mexico border in recent months and claimed asylum, saying they were fleeing the drug cartel violence in their impoverished home countries. The federal government is spending $868million this year to house and resettle them. Currently, there are more than 2,400 children being held at 139 facilities across the country while they await hearings in front of an immigration judge, according to Kenneth J. Wolfe, a spokesman for the US Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the programs. Mr Wolfe, the HHS spokesman, told MailOnline that the escape has prompted the Office of Refugee Resettlement to take 'immediate steps to ensure that all (refugee resettlement) programs continue to provide a safe and secure environment.'...more