Why Are Undocumented Immigrant Children Being Detained?
More than 70000 unaccompanied children will try to illegally enter the US in 2014. And for the first time ever, the majority of these minors will come from Central ...
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Starting in 2012, Economic crises and hostilities in Central America have lead to a surge of unaccompanied children attempting to enter illegally into the United States. This year an estimated 52,000, children from Central America alone will be apprehended by border control. And for the first time ever, more children are coming from Central American countries than from Mexico. Which matters, because Mexican children can be turned away at the border. But Central American children have to be detained and processed by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which leaves them in US custody for extended periods of time. And our current system is not set up to handle this high volume of minors. It was built to process up to 8,000 children per year, and we can expect to see more than 6 times ...
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Starting in 2012, Economic crises and hostilities in Central America have lead to a surge of unaccompanied children attempting to enter illegally into the United States. This year an estimated 52,000, children from Central America alone will be apprehended by border control. And for the first time ever, more children are coming from Central American countries than from Mexico. Which matters, because Mexican children can be turned away at the border. But Central American children have to be detained and processed by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which leaves them in US custody for extended periods of time. And our current system is not set up to handle this high volume of minors. It was built to process up to 8,000 children per year, and we can expect to see more than 6 times ...
