327 migrant children in N.Y. taken from parents at border

There are 327 migrant children being cared for in New York after being taken from their parents at the southern border — more than any state except Arizona and Texas.

The information was provided to the Daily News by a source who had received a state-by-state breakdown from Health and Human Services, the parent department for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is tasked with caring for the children. The numbers are as of earlier this week.

New York’s population of separated minors is slight lower than Arizona, which has 379 and about a third of Texas’ 944, according to the information.

The News, citing a federal source, first reported 10 days ago that there were 311 children who had been separated from their families at the southern border in New York. The number has since increased, the stats show.

Mayor de Blasio — whose administration has pushed to get official numbers from the feds — had ballparked the figure at around 300 on Monday, after speaking with social service providers like Cayuga Centers in East Harlem. Cayuga had 239 separated children in their custody last week.

The latest overall numbers were first reported by NY1.

De Blasio said Monday that workers believed so many children had been brought to New York because of its robust foster care infrastructure.

“What seemed to be the reason in their view – one opinion – was that in a lot of other states the capacity isn’t there. They don’t have a substantial number of social service organizations that are big enough to handle a large influx of kids. They don’t have as developed foster care programs,” he said.

A judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to reunite all children with their parents within 30 days — but it remains unclear exactly how the administration will comply with that order.

Florida is housing 179 separated children; Illinois has 65; California has 47; Michigan has 27; Pennsylvania has 24; Virginia has 20; Maryland has 10; Kansas has 9; Washington State has 5; Oregon has 4; South Carolina has 3; and New Jersey and Connecticut each have 2 separated children in their custody, according to the information provided to The News.

Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment.