A whole generation of #migrant children are languishing at the U.S.-Mexico border

A whole generation of #migrant children are languishing at the U.S.-Mexico border

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3,000 Migrant Children Remain Separate from Families

3,000 Migrant Children Remain Separate from Families

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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.

 

Escondido Planning Commission considers migrant shelter permit

Tuesday night, there was another round of heated public comment in Escondido City Hall. The City Planning Commission was taking a second and final vote on a permit for the temporary shelter for migrant children. KUSI’s Sasha Foo is at Escondido City Hall with the details.

Source: www.kusi.com

U.S. Turns Back on Child Migrants After Its Policies in Guatemala, Honduras Sowed Seeds of Crisis – VIDEO – Democracy Now!

 

DANA FRANK:
Yeah, when we talk about the fleeing gangs and violence, it’s also this tremendous poverty. And poverty doesn’t just happen. It, itself, is a direct result of policies of both the Honduran government and the U.S. government, including privatizations, mass layoffs of government workers, and a new—in Honduras, a new law, that’s now made permanent, that breaks up full-time jobs and makes them part-time and ineligible for unionization, living wage and the national health service. And a lot of these economic policies are driven by U.S.-funded lending organizations like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, which itself is funding the corrupt Honduran police. The Central American Free Trade Agreement is the other piece of this. Like NAFTA did for the U.S. and Mexico, it opens the door to this open competition between small producers in agriculture in Honduras, small manufacturers, and jobs are disappearing as a result of that.

So, with this poverty that we’re seeing that people are fleeing, it’s not like people are like, “Let’s go have the American dream.” There are almost no jobs for young people. Their parents know it. And we’re talking about starving to death—that’s the alternative—or being driven into gangs with tremendous sexual violence. And it’s a very, very tragic situation here. But it’s not like it tragically just happened. It’s a direct result of very conscious policies by the U.S. and Honduran governments.
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Source: www.democracynow.org

57,000 Possible Cases of Asylum

 

Mr. Obama called the surge in children from Central America an “actual humanitarian crisis on the border,” and said it “only underscores the need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all.”

 

Source: www.nytimes.com