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"Injustice is radicalized in the young," Pope Francis said. "They are cannon fodder, persecuted and threatened when they try to flee the spiral of violence and the hell of drugs."

“This is a success for the country,” President Luis Guillermo Solís told reporters. "It demonstrated the generosity of our people."

After more than a month at loggerheads over what to do with Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica en route to the U.S., Central American countries finally reached an agreement to allow them safe passage.

Belize’s refusal to receive the migrants means that thousands of Cuban migrants will remain stuck in temporary shelters as the holidays approach.

Police arrested the alleged ringleader of an organization that smuggled Dominican migrants into Spain and France via Costa Rica with false passports.

Costa Rica has proposed a “humanitarian corridor” through the region that would allow the migrants to pass freely through with temporary transit visas.

Authorities arrested the Costa Rican driver of the bus carrying the Cubans, identified by the last name Echeverría. He was arrested on human trafficking charges and sent to a flagrancy court, according to the statement.

Germany said it was reinstating border controls on Sunday as Europe's top economy admitted it was stretched to the limit trying to cope with a record influx of refugees. Also on Sunday, Germany's rail service halted train services with Austria for 12 hours. The announcements came as tragedy struck again off the coast of Greece, with 34 more migrants -- among them babies and children -- drowning when their overcrowded wooden boat capsized in high winds.

Brazil will welcome Syrian refugees with "open arms," President Dilma Rousseff said Monday, amid a tidal wave of people fleeing the war-torn country.

In a Europe bitterly divided over how to handle its largest wave of migrants since World War II, it is, this time, the Germans who are coming to the rescue.