2014-07-26 10:10:00

Central American leaders told to deter child migrants to US


(Vatican Radio) United States President Barack Obama has urged the leaders of three Central American nations  to work even harder to deter droves of unaccompanied and undocumented children trying to migrate to the U.S.

 Presidents Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala, Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras and Salvador Sanchez Ceren of El Salvador often sat mute in the White House, while President Obama praised  them for their efforts, but insisted yet more work must be done to stem the migration surge northwards by thousands of unaccompanied undocumented children who are in grave danger along the way and must be repatriated.

Paradoxically, many of these children fled terrified from their countries due to drug cartels and gang violence, fueled by insatiable demand for illegal narcotics in the U.S. The Central American region currently has the highest homicide rate in the world.  

Hernandez has called on Washington to fund an anti-drug program in Honduras, comparable in economic terms and commitment,  to U.S. anti-narcotics campaigns, channeled into Colombia and Mexico. No decision by this U.S. administration concerning that relevant and interconnected issue has been forthcoming.
 

Listen to the report by James Blears:

 








All the contents on this site are copyrighted ©.