2014-07-20 14:26:00

Quartet of Presidents aim to solve migrant minors crisis


(Vatican Radio) The Presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador will meet President Obama this coming week in Washington, to try to resolve the growing crisis of unaccompanied undocumented migrant children, trying to reach the United States.

Listen to the report by James Blears... 

Presidents Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala, Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras and Salvador Sanchez Ceron of El Salvador support measures to help prevent the migration exodus from their countries, which is causing heartache to families and ructions to national economies.

A White House Spokesman says that together, the four Presidents are trying to find means and ways to promote legal safe and orderaly migration with a spirit of shared responsibility. More than 50,000 unaccompanied children mostly from Central America have arrived in the United States in less than a year, and this is becoming a major humanitarian crisis.

Increasing drug cartel activity in these countries, with peaking violence and the highest homicide rates in the World, have created this instability. 

A 3.7 billion dollar proposal to a wary US Congress, by the current US Administration to beef up Boder security, is a one dimensional solution to a multi faceted crisis, which is deepening widening and splitting at the seams. 








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