A sympathetic piece on the crisis along the border in TIME Magazine by Michael Scherer. I have this actual issue and it has a graphic that doesnt appear online which shows that the greatest number of unaccompanied minors over time (2009-14; Dept. of Homeland Security Data) by far is not even children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, but rather from MEXICO. It demonstrates, for instance, that in 2009, unaccompanied minors from Mexico equals 16,114 (in comparison to 1,221 from El S., 1,115 from Guatemala, and 968 from Honduras). Fast forward to 2014 and the number of unaccompanied minors from Mexico equals 11,577 (in comparison to 9,850 from El S., 11,479 from Guatemala, 13,282 from Honduras). (The 2014 data are just from the first 8 months of the fiscal year.) The jump in Central American kids is clearly astronomical—but the literally thousands upon thousands of unaccompanied minors from Mexico throughout this time period is staggering. Im learning from other sources that the Mexican children are simply deported while the Central American children appear to have a better, albeit uncertain chance, of remaining in the U.S. This piece further underscores the profitability in trafficking in children that the drug cartels have seized upon.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 23:20:26 +0000
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