Mexico, United States and Central America Address Child Migration teleSUR
go to original September 11, 2014

A US Border Patrol officer oversees a group of women and children who crossed the border from Mexico. (Agence France-Presse)

Since October last year, the United States has detained nearly 70,000 children.

Attorney Generals from the United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala have agreed to form a commission to address the issue of the migration of unaccompanied children.

In a statement from United States Justice Department spokesperson Brian Fallon said that the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder visited Mexico City on Tuesday to meet with his counterparts from the Central American nations.

The statement read that, “Specifically, the group considered strategies about how to best confront the smugglers of these unaccompanied children, the violent gangs who victimize them in their home countries, and the cartels who tax or exploit them in their passage.”

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