Mexico Has Deported 93 Percent of Unaccompanied Minors Detained at Its Border John Stanton - BuzzFeed
go to original August 26, 2014

A Guatemalan family crossing the border to Mexico. (Omar Torres/AFP/Getty)

Mexican officials have deported more than 13,000 of the 14,000 undocumented, unaccompanied minors who have been caught at Mexico’s southern border, a rate significantly higher than in the United States, according to government sources familiar with the situation.

...According to those sources, the vast majority of unaccompanied minors detained at the country’s southern border comes from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, the majority are between the ages of 12 and 17, and most are boys. Government officials provide the minors with temporary shelter, food, clothing, and medical treatment while in custody.

Most unaccompanied minors are returned to their country of origin by plane by Mexican authorities, while Central American children who are accompanied by an adult family member are also provided with bus tickets to their countries of origin.

Of the 1,000 minors who have not been deported from Mexico, some are applying for asylum in Mexico, while others have petitioned to be allowed to travel to the U.S. border in order to be reunited with family in the United States.

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