Why the Children Fleeing Central America Will Not Stop Coming

Migrant children need a regional solution

Unprecedented numbers of children migrating without their legal guardian are being apprehended in North America.

In just the first five months of 2014 Mexican immigration authorities detained 4,239 unaccompanied children, representing almost half of all migrant children detained in 2013. Meanwhile, the US has seen an increase of over 90% compared to previous years with more than 57,000 unaccompanied migrant children apprehended since October 2013.

The International Detention Coalition (IDC) calls for urgent regional dialogue and a coordinated response, one that is based on guaranteeing the rights of these children and responsibly protecting their well being before, during and after the migration process.

▻http://idcoalition.org/migrant-children-need-a-regional-solution

*Nearly 7-in-10 Americans See Unaccompanied Children at Border as Refugees, Not Illegal Immigrants*

Roughly half (49%) of Americans report hearing a lot about the growing numbers of children arriving in the United States from Central America, while 31% report only hearing a little, and 20% report hearing nothing at all.

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Unaccompanied Alien Children—Legal Issues: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

▻http://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R43623.pdf

Senate Opens Debate on Bill to Halt Surge of Migrants

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats opened debate Wednesday on an emergency measure to help stem the flood of young migrants from Central America, though they still face two uphill votes — another procedural, and one of final passage — before they can head home for the five-week August recess having passed legislation to address the crisis at the southern border.

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/us/politics/senate-opens-debate-on-immigration-bill-for-border-crisis.html?_r=0

États-Unis : expulsez ces enfants migrants que je ne saurais voir

Fuyant les gangs qui sévissent chez eux, des milliers de mineurs d’Amérique centrale franchissent chaque jour le Rio Grande. L’occasion pour les républicains de fustiger la politique migratoire d’Obama.

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Why the Children Fleeing Central America Will Not Stop Coming

At the root of the border crisis is a wave of violence that the United States helped to create.

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▻http://www.thenation.com/article/180837/why-children-fleeing-central-america-will-not-stop-coming

Meet Carolina, Who Brought Her Daughters 1,500 Miles To The U.S. So They Wouldn’t Be Raped

McALLEN, TEXAS — We met Carolina while visiting a “welcome center” for recently-processed immigrants at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas. She emerged from a sweltering relief tent that sheltered a handful of other fatigued travelers, most of whom, like her, had been released by Border Patrol just hours prior. She stood what couldn’t have been more than five feet tall, but her weary eyes hinted at her age. She looked tired, but then, she should: she reportedly had just finished a journey of more than a thousand miles, and still had more to go.

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Gangs: the real ‘humanitarian crisis’ driving Central American children to the US

The spectacular arrival of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children at the southern frontier of the US over the last three years has provoked a frenzied response. President Obama calls the situation a “humanitarian crisis” on the US’s borders. News interviews with these vulnerable children appear almost daily in the global news media alongside official pronouncements by the US government on how it intends to stem this flow of migrants.

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