The United States cannot stop immigration by fiat nor can it easily avoid the impacts American society has on our closest neighbors (Mexico and Central America), and that they have on us. Page 1 of 2

Many Mexican child migrants caught multiple times at border

With the surge in unaccompanied children apprehended at the Southwest border, much has been written about the unusually high numbers of kids arriving from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The number of apprehensions of Mexican child migrants rivals those of the other three countries, but many of those caught are ones who tried to cross multiple times — meaning that the total number of child migrants from Mexico is lower compared with the Central American nations.

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The underlying significance of Central American immigration

The large flow of unaccompanied minors from Central America across the southern border of the United States vividly demonstrates three realities that have long been ignored: first, that conditions in the northern tier countries of Central America — Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador — are desperate and getting worse; second, that the borders between the United States and its closest neighbors in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean are porous, despite new technological barriers and expanded numbers of Border Patrol agents; and third, that there is an overwhelming difference between U.S. relations with these countries in our “near abroad” and our relations with the rest of the world.

►http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/02/central-american-immigration-us

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