Most Unaccompanied Minor Immigrants Entering US Illegally Qualify for Asylum Under Current Law Angelica Leicht - The Latino Post
go to original July 3, 2014

More than 70,000 unaccompanied children will try to illegally enter the US in 2014. And for the first time ever, the majority of these minors will come from Central American countries than from Mexico. The geographic difference has huge implications for an already overwhelmed US system. Here are seven things you need to know about the child immigration crisis. (TestTube)

Despite what the White House has been saying in recent weeks, most of the unaccompanied youth immigrants who are traveling across the U.S. - Mexico border lines can qualify to stay under refugee or political asylum guidelines.

According to Fox News Latino, nearly 80 percent of the undocumented children traveling alone into the United States can qualify to stay in the U.S. due to problems with "join or die" gang recruitment, high murder rates, and other humanitarian issues in their home countries.

For unaccompanied youth from nations like Honduras, which has the highest murder rate in the world, El Salvador and Guatemala, there are options other than deportation. The Special Immigrant Juveniles visa (SIJ) is available for minors who make it into the United States and are victims of abuse, neglect, or abandonment.

... Experts estimate that under the current guidelines of SIJ, nearly 80 percent of the children found crossing border lines unaccompanied could qualify.

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