Child Crisis at US Border

Since last October, more than 57,000 unaccompanied minors have been detained while crossing the US-Mexico border, about three-quarters of them fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

The Department of Health and Human Services gives each child a health screening and immunizations, and assigns a short-term shelter. Children stay in a shelter an average of 35 days. Most are then placed with a family member or sponsor in the United States, where they remain during the deportation process.

The Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged that because so many minors caught in the past few years were reunited with their families here and not immediately deported, many Central Americans were left with the perception that the United States was allowing children to stay.

Advocates and lawmakers in touch with White House officials have spread the word that the administration is planning to “grant work permits” to millions of the more than 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally. 

Such reports have led to speculation that the president will expand the deferred action program, a 2012 executive order known by its acronym, Daca. This program delays deportations for immigrants known as Dreamers, young people who were brought to the US without documentation as children and meet certain requirements.

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