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The Trump Administration Plans to End a Refugee Program for Children [propublica.org]

 

"The Trump administration plans to stop accepting refugee applications from children with U.S.-based parents from three violence-riddled Central American countries — El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala — according to the summary of a presentation the State Department made recently to refugee organizations.

The decision to end the Central American Minors program, which began in 2014 and is the only refugee program aimed at helping people from that region, could put hundreds of families split between two countries in a delicate situation.

The children will no longer be able to come legally to the U.S. Of course, they can still attempt to cross without authorization and then either request asylum or try to navigate the border region without being detained or injured — just the kind of dangerous illegal immigration that the CAM program was meant to discourage. (And if the children do cross the border, as ProPublica recently reported, they could expose their parents to an investigation for child smuggling.)"

[For more on this story by Marcelo Rochabrun, go to https://www.propublica.org/art...ral-america-children]

Photo: Unaccompanied minors from El Salvador await transport to a U.S. Border Patrol processing center after they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States in Mission, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)

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