WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is initiating a program to give refugee status to some young people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador in response to the influx of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Under the program, immigrants from those countries who are lawfully in the United States will be able to request that child relatives still in those three countries be resettled in the United States as refugees. The program would establish in-country processing to screen the young people to determine if they qualify to join relatives in the U.S.
In a memorandum to the State Department Tuesday, President Barack Obama allocated 4,000 slots for refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean for next year. The number is a fraction of the number of children who have already crossed the border into the United States and are awaiting deportation proceedings.
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These people are not refugees by definition.
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ReplyDeleteˌrefyo͝oˈjē,ˈrefyo͝oˌjē/
noun
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
Have you been to Honduras or any Central American Country? I have and it's all a natural disaster with war and persecution. Guess they are refugees...
No. And the answer is right in front of you. They are still inside their country. At most they are Internally Displaced Persons, and I bet most of them are still living at home. The international commitments toward refugees do not apply until after they are forced to flee their country (so leaving voluntarily to travel to the US doesn't work, either).
ReplyDeleteWhatever became of the FEMA camps? Can they send them there or are they reserved for another group?
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