Central America’s Gangs Are All Grown Up. And more dangerous than ever.
The possible arrival of a few thousand Syrian refugees in the United States has caused a political firestorm, but there is a much more serious humanitarian crisis brewing on America’s southern border. The growing wave of unaccompanied children flowing from the northern tier of Central America across the U.S.-Mexico border could very well turn into a long-lasting tsunami due to the horrific violence and gang warfare wracking the region.
Despite the announcement by Secretary of State John Kerry last week that the United States will increase the number of Central American refugees admitted and work with the United Nations to help those at risk, the number of unaccompanied minors fleeing the Northern Triangle of #El_Salvador, #Honduras, and #Guatemala will likely soon surpass the 2014 surge. Nor are recent efforts by the Obama administration to round up and deport those already in the United States illegally likely to blunt the dynamics driving people to leave.
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/01/19/central-americas-gangs-are-all-grown-up
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