Number of Children Crossing US Border Falls as Mexico Breaks New Deportation Record Arturo Varela - AL DIA News
go to original August 28, 2015

Migrants from Mexico are risking their lives trying to cross into Texas in a strip of land known as the Valley of Death. (Al Jazeera America News)

The number of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S. border illegally fell in the first five months of the current fiscal year thanks to a little help from Mexico, according to an analysis released by the Pew Research Center.

The Mexican government deported a record number of 3,819 unaccompanied minors from Central America in the first five months of the fiscal year that began in October, a 56 percent increase over the same period last year.

During the same period, U.S. officials apprehended 12,509 unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico border, down from 21,403 a year ago.

The number of Guatemalan children deported by Mexico doubled compared with the same period a year ago; the number of Salvadoran children deported has increased by 49 percent, while the number of Honduran children is similar to the previous year.

Most children apprehended in the U.S.-Mexico border during this fiscal year — 7,771 — came from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, with nearly all of the rest coming from Mexico.

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Related: A Year After 'Humanitarian Situation' on US-Mexico Border, Child Migration Continues (NACLA.org)

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