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US to offer refugee status to some undocumented child migrants
Source: The Guardian
US to offer refugee status to some undocumented child migrants
Rory Carroll in New York
theguardian.com, Friday 14 November 2014 22.15 GMT
The United States will soon offer refugee status to some undocumented youths from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras as part of a wider immigration reform effort.
Vice-president Joe Biden announced on Friday that minors under the age of 21 who live in the Central American countries, and who have parents who are legal residents in the US, could start applying for refugee status from next month.
“It provides those seeking asylum a right way to come to our country, as opposed to crossing the border illegally,” he told a Central American conference at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.
About 68,000 unaccompanied minors, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, illegally entered the US from Mexico this year. Harrowing scenes of children tramping across the desert triggered a logistical scramble to accommodate them and a political row in Washington.
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Rory Carroll in New York
theguardian.com, Friday 14 November 2014 22.15 GMT
The United States will soon offer refugee status to some undocumented youths from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras as part of a wider immigration reform effort.
Vice-president Joe Biden announced on Friday that minors under the age of 21 who live in the Central American countries, and who have parents who are legal residents in the US, could start applying for refugee status from next month.
“It provides those seeking asylum a right way to come to our country, as opposed to crossing the border illegally,” he told a Central American conference at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.
About 68,000 unaccompanied minors, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, illegally entered the US from Mexico this year. Harrowing scenes of children tramping across the desert triggered a logistical scramble to accommodate them and a political row in Washington.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/14/us-offer-refugee-status-illegal-child-immigrants-central-america
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