UNACCOMPANIED MINORS CRISIS

POLITICS
Infants And Toddlers Are Coming To The U.S. To Work, According To Border Patrol
By Elise Foley
"CPB has just fallen down on the job," she said. "They're just refusing to recognize how serious a problem this is." The
POLITICS
Mexico Is Now Detaining More Central Americans Than The U.S.
By Elise Foley
"It shows that people continue to flee violence in Central America; they continue to be affected by poverty and other structural
POLITICS
Border Crisis Is Smaller, But Still A Crisis
By Elise Foley
Other so-called push factors leading minors and families to leave Central American countries, such as extreme violence and
POLITICS
House Democrats: LGBT Immigrant Minors Need Better Protections Against Sexual Abuse
By Elise Foley
An HHS spokesman said the interim rule was still in the approval process, but did not comment on the Democrats' letter. HHS's
POLITICS
Newt Gingrich: Obama Refusing To Defend Borders, Flying In New Immigrants
By Elise Foley
Gingrich wrote in a blog post in June that the number of unaccompanied minors coming to the U.S. was "a direct result of
POLITICS
After Becoming Part Of A Family In The U.S., Honduran Immigrant Teen Has To Leave
By Elise Foley
Stories like his are likely to become more common, as the U.S. this past year hit crisis levels of apprehensions of unaccompanied
POLITICS
Most People Caught Crossing Southwest Border Last Fiscal Year Weren't From Mexico
By Elise Foley
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced in a speech on Thursday that according to preliminary data, there were
POLITICS
Jeh Johnson: Politicians Shouldn't 'Feed The Flames Of Fear' Over ISIS, Ebola
By Elise Foley
Johnson said the four individuals were investigated and found to be members of the Kurdish Worker's Party, which he said
POLITICS
Honduran Mom Fleeing 'Horrific Acts Of Harm' Wins U.S. Asylum With Daughters
By Elise Foley
Holding her 8-month-old daughter, D.M.L. was present at the hearing -- the second in her family's case -- as an image on
LATINO VOICES
New York To Pay For Legal Aid For Kids Facing Deportation
By Roque Planas
By U.S. law, unaccompanied minors from countries other than Mexico and Canada apprehended while crossing illegally are not
LATINO VOICES
Humanitarian Crisis? Traveling Unaccompanied?: Reflections on Government Framing (Part 3)
By Yunuen Ikiltezi Rodriguez, Contributor
Queer Scholar & Activist
Overall, using the term "human" has been disingenuous all along because our government's role in addressing this child influx are false gestures that only attempt to "help" while leaving structural inequalities intact.
LATINO VOICES
Humanitarian Crisis? Traveling Unaccompanied?: Reflections on Government Framing (Part 2)
By Yunuen Ikiltezi Rodriguez, Contributor
Queer Scholar & Activist
Our government isn't really invested in the well being of these children since our policies have played a great role in making them live as adults and placing them in harm's way all their lives.
LATINO VOICES
Humanitarian Crisis? Traveling Unaccompanied?: Reflections on Government Framing (Part 1)
By Yunuen Ikiltezi Rodriguez, Contributor
Queer Scholar & Activist
Why such different regard from the government between these children and their parents when poverty, just like wealth, knows no age, but is rather inherited?
POLITICS
San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Provide Lawyers For Kids Facing Deportation
By Elise Foley
About 2,100 minors and family units are expected to go without a lawyer at the San Francisco Immigration Court this year
POLITICS
DHS 'Will Respond Aggressively' To Reported Mistreatment of Immigrant Detainees
By Elise Foley
POLITICS
Immigrant Mothers Face 'Unnecessary Cruelty' At Detention Facility, Lawyer Says
By Elise Foley
WASHINGTON -- Undocumented immigrant mothers and children are kept in excessively cold conditions, given undercooked food
PARENTING
A Father's Perspective on the Humanitarian Border Crisis
By Christopher Punongbayan, Contributor
Director, Equity and Social Justice at Northern California Gra...
My son is too young to understand what is happening in the news, but one day I will have to tell him why our country is treating the children from Central America so inhumanely. I'm not sure what I will say about this shameful moment.
POLITICS
What is Driving the "Central American Migrant Crisis"? US Economic Recovery
By Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, Contributor
Founder & Director of North American Integration Development C...
The increasing number of migrant children being apprehended at the US border has finally focused media and political attention on the humanitarian plight of Central American migrant families.
POLITICS
As Unaccompanied Children Cross Border, One Group Tries To Get Them Lawyers
By Elise Foley
Heading into the remaining months of this Congress, the goal for Young and others at KIND is to keep pushing back against
LATINO VOICES
Most Americans Say Child Migrants Should Be Reunited With Families Here: Poll
By Roque Planas
Those who say both should be given equal emphasis topped the other two responses, at 41 percent. That figure had dropped
IMPACT
The Children on Our Doorstep
By Ariel Zwang, Contributor
CEO, Safe Horizon
Unaccompanied minors have risked their lives to find safety in our country. And I urge you to speak out on their behalf, so that everyone has a better understanding of their plight and the need for a more proactive, thoughtful and compassionate response to this humanitarian crisis.
LATINO VOICES
Children Deported To Honduras Are Getting Killed: Report
By Roque Planas
Despite the fact that many view the minors as refugees, it’s not clear how U.S. law will treat them. Securing U.S. asylum
POLITICS
Key Sexual Abuse Protections For Child Migrants Await White House Approval, Frustrating Advocates
By David McCabe
And the growing scale of the problem is also worrying to advocates. In order to deal with the crisis at the border, HHS is
RELIGION
Migrant Children, Uninvited Guests, and Welcoming the Stranger
By Donald Kerwin, Contributor
Executive Director, Center for Migration Studies
The debate over the large-scale migration of children from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico has characteristically devolved into political theater. The evidence builds regarding the dangers that have driven the children's flight.
POLITICS
First and Foremost, Border-Children Crisis Is a Civil Courts Crisis
By Sara Corcoran Warner, Contributor
Publisher, National Courts Monitor
When we cut courts funding, the criminal-court side of the system gets first call on resources -- it has all those pesky constitutional guarantees that prevent years of backlog. So civil courts get less and less.
POLITICS
Luis Gutierrez: Republicans Spreading 'Outright Lies' About Ebola And Migrant Children
By Elise Foley
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) said last month that border patrol officials had told him they were concerned about Ebola, and
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