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Map: These Are the Places Central American Child Migrants Are Fleeing
By Ian Gordon
| Fri Jun. 27, 2014 3:48 PM EDT
A recently produced infographic from the Department of Homeland Security shows that the majority of unaccompanied children coming to the United States are from some of the most violent and impoverished parts of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
The map documents the origins of child migrants apprehended by the Border Patrol from January 1 to May 14. It was made public by Adam Isaacson of the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights organization, and it includes the following analysis about the surge in child migrants:
Many Guatemalan children come from rural areas, indicating that they are probably seeking economic opportunities in the US. Salvadoran and Honduran children, on the other hand, come from extremely violent regions where they probably perceive the risk of traveling alone to the US preferable to remaining at home.
More:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/06/map-unaccompanied-child-migrants-central-america-honduras?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Motherjones%2Fmojoblog+%28MotherJones.com+%7C+MoJoBlog%29
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)unwelcoming?
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)'Those' people are coming to take your jobs!
Which is truly depraved considering our jobs went 'there' when the corporations moved manufacturing to escape US labor rights and product and environmental regulation.
Then money 'there' changed everything, and now the corporations chase cheap labor elsewhere, and leave economic destruction and upheaval 'there.'
Even now, companies are bringing manufacturing back to US since they broke the US worker, with lower wages, loss of union collectivism and a political party railing against regulation and taxation.
Now America is back to dog eat dog, and if you don't look like me, you don't belong here.
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)undocumented immigrants. The US helps refugees--remember what happened when lots of people fled Cuba in boats?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,312 posts)vote for Democrats in the next election.