Number of Honduran Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Doubles as Mexican Rates Slip Michael Oleaga - Latin Post
go to original August 14, 2014

In Honduras, Amnesty Rumors Fuel US Migration Surge (Voice of America)

The Department of Homeland Security disclosed the number of unaccompanied undocumented immigrant children that have entered the southern U.S. According to Customs and Border Protection, more children from Honduras traveled into the U.S. than from Mexico and other Central American countries.

So far, 17,582 unaccompanied undocumented children have come to the U.S. from Honduras during 2014. CBP recorded only 6,747 Honduran children entered the U.S. in 2013. In 2009, CBP apprehended only 968 Honduran minors.

...However, there was a decline in the number of Mexican unaccompanied children. During 2013, 17,240 unaccompanied children from Mexico were apprehended in the U.S., but the number dropped to 13,675 for 2014, so far. The rate of arival for Mexican unaccompanied children is the lowest since 2011, when 11,768 minors entered the U.S.

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