2seaoat wrote:By golly do you see the same xenophobes who criticized central American refugees who came with moms and children......bottom line if you are blonde haired and blue eyed you will not find the haters spewing.....the same way our racist immigration laws attacked chinese, romani, and jews......it takes haters to attack the victims.....and the punchline.....we usually are behind the destruction of their countries.
If we stop our war like military expansion, the world and the United States will be safer. Cut Military spending and get the teat suckers off the government payroll working real jobs, and maybe these civilians can live in peace. Almost every person who attacks innocent civilians on this forum at some point, somebody in their family got a check from Uncle Sam.....see the pattern....shrink the military and get right with the big guy.
What do we do with 60,000 unaccompanied child immigrants a year?
The numbers are slowing down because of Mexico...
Mexican efforts to crack down on Central American migrants have vastly reduced the number of unaccompanied minors reaching the border of the United States, according a new analysis of deportation figures by the Pew Research Center.
The study, based on US and Mexican deportation figures, found that US officials detained 12,509 unaccompanied minors at the southern border in the first five months of this year – down 8,894 from the same period in the previous year.
Meanwhile, record numbers of Central American immigrant minors have been deported from Mexico this year. During the first five months of the year, Mexican officials have deported 3,819, 56% more than the same period last year, according to Pew.
More than 7,700 of the minors detained in Mexico are from Central America’s three “northern triangle” countries: Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
Mexico deports record numbers of women and children in US-driven effort
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The increase in deportations from Mexico follows intense media and political attention to a surge in unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border in the summer of 2014. Most are believed to be fleeing violence, as the northern triangle countries have some of the highest murder rates in the world.
Many immigration experts believe the stepped-up enforcement by Mexican authorities is the result of political pressure from the US after last summer’s surge stretched immigration facilities to capacity. The US has also pledged $86m towards upgrading Mexico’s checkpoints, roadblocks and naval bases.
The crackdown has drastically reduced the number of migrants hitching a lift on the infamous freight train known as La Bestia – the Beast – which for many years was an important, if potentially lethal, route north for migrants. Travelling by bus has also become more difficult since the government increased the number of roadblocks, particularly near Mexico’s southern border.
The Mexican government claims the crackdown is intended to protect migrants from the dangers of the journey and abuse by traffickers.
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