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Coming to America: The difficult choices children face when seeking refuge from El Salvador's ...
Coming to America: The difficult choices children face when seeking refuge from El Salvador's violenceAntonio wrestles with going to school or working to send money to his sick mother in El Salvador. He’s 18.
Roxana has been so depressed about her rough life that she’s thought about ending it. She’s only 16.
And César, stranded in a government shelter for immigrants, is separated from his father. He’s 4: A toddler alone.
They’re part of a historic surge of vulnerable children and young people who crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S. over the past three years. More than 280,000 have come so far, mostly from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. It caused a humanitarian crisis in 2014, and the number of young people flowing north is at least as high again today.
Read more: http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2017/migrant-children/index.html
