Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís added his signature to a declaration expressing solidarity with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras for the “humanitarian crisis” of unaccompanied child migrants traveling to the United States.
The two-year attempt to push immigration reform through the U.S. Congress is effectively dead and unlikely to be revived until after President Barack Obama leaves office, numerous lawmakers and advocates on both sides of the issue said this week.
REYNOSA, Mexico – Carlos boarded a bus last month using money he earned picking coffee beans and corn, fleeing the gangs of his native Honduras who'd threatened to kill him if he didn't join. The 17-year-old made it as far as a migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico, less than a quarter mile from the U.S. border, unsure of how to finish the trek.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Obama administration toughened its border policies Friday, hoping to stem a surge of women and children into the United States by sending a stronger message that unauthorized migrants will be turned away.
Global Entry allows Panamanians who comply with requirements to register to enter the U.S. in an expedited manner, while Global Pass facilitates the entry of U.S. residents into Panama.
MCALLEN, Texas – Behind the beige brick facade and the barbed wire of the Border Patrol station here, crowds of Central American women and children are sleeping on concrete floors in 90 degree heat.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, 24,668 unaccompanied minors were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexican border in fiscal 2013. Officials expect the annual number will jump to nearly 60,000 by the end of fiscal 2014.
CHALATENANGO, El Salvador – With no job or education, Mirna Meléndez paid a smuggler to help get her out of El Salvador. As she left, she told her four children: "You will have to go without my love here, but not without support."
