US border patrol violated agency rules in deporting thousands of children

US Customs and Border Protection deported unaccompanied children from Mexico and Canada without documenting how they knew minors would be safe

Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com

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Unaccompanied Child Migrants: Q&A with UNICEF Honduras

 

What’s it like for children in Honduras?

ESPINAL: Throughout the country we have a child mortality rate of 23 per 1,000. We have 900,000 children and adolescents who neither work nor go to school. We have 12 children who are assassinated every day

 

Source: www.unicefusa.org

Child Migrants Report Freezing In ‘Icebox’ U.S. Border Patrol Centers

 

My little sister’s lips even turned blue,” said Mayeli Hernandez, a 12-year-old girl from Honduras who testified to the panel on Tuesday through a translator. “We were shivering the whole time that we were there. We were there for four very cold days.”

My time in the icebox was the worst experience of my life,” he said.

 

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Source: www.ibtimes.com

To Fix the Child Refugee Crisis, End the War on Drugs

America’s anti-drug policies didn’t stop the production of narcotics, they just shifted it overseas.

Source: www.businessweek.com

 

The war on drugs is really a war on people. There can not be a war on inanimate objects. 

 

785 of this year’s unaccompanied child migrants were under 6 years old

 

Little kids, including a troubling number of children age five or younger, make up the fastest-growing group of unaccompanied minors apprehended at the US border in fiscal year 2014. So far this year, nearly 7,500 kids under 13 have been caught without a legal guardian—and 785 of them were younger than six.

 

Source: www.motherjones.com

 

I’m guessing that the parents of these little kids were murdered.