WASHINGTON ( Two Cases of Swine Flu Detected in Immigrant Children )

WASHINGTON – U.S. health authorities detected two cases of the H1N1 swine flu virus in Central American immigrant children who are being held in detention facilities in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, an executive of the Border Patrol union said.

Chris Cabrera, vice president of National Border Patrol Council Local 3307, confirmed the cases to KGBT television's Action 4 News.

Cabrera said that one of the cases was detected at the Border Patrol station in Brownsville and the other at Fort Brown.

Both cases were verified last Friday by medical personnel providing health care at those facilities, where some 120 people have been quarantined against the possibility that they may have come in contact with the infected children.

The U.S. government has acknowledged that it is facing an “urgent humanitarian situation” with the massive arrival of unaccompanied children crossing the border from Mexico. Most of the kids are coming from Central America, and their numbers have exceeded 47,000 over the past seven months.