US Amps Up Media Warnings to Parents of Child Migrants in Mexico and Central America Tim Johnson - McClatchy
go to original June 25, 2014

Cynthia Lemus, 12, rests beside her mother Carmen Gomez as they wait for a northbound freight train along with other Central American migrants. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Obama administration officials are wielding a powerful bullhorn to warn Central American parents against sending their unaccompanied children to the United States.

Since the weekend, newspapers, radio and television stations and websites in Central America and Mexico have aired U.S. warnings to parents that their children would be deported if they make their way past the Rio Grande into Texas.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a statement Sunday, widely printed in Monday’s newspapers in the region, calling on parents to heed the dangers of letting their children go off alone to cross international borders.

“To the parents of these children I have one simple message: Sending your child to travel illegally into the United States is not the solution,” Johnson said in the statement.

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