The Obama administration is making it harder for Central Americans to get refugee status.
By Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords
October 8, 2014
Did you notice that all that fuss over those Central American kids who were crossing the U.S. border alone suddenly died down?
As recently as June, more than 10,000 children fleeing unchecked gang violence in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala made it here over the course of a month. Then, a major security crackdown in Mexico slowed the pace of their arrivals down to about 3,000 in August — the lowest rate since January and about the same as the pace of arrivals last year. It’s what passes for “normal” in this sad situation.
Customs and Border Protection chief Gil Kerlikowske calls this decrease “good news.” He’s only right if you believe that putting a problem out of sight and out of mind constitutes solving it.[...]
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http://otherwords.org/the-not-so-good-news-about-the-border-crisis/
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