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El aumento de la migración de niños no acompañados a los Estados Unidos
Comenzando a principios de octubre de 2011, se ha venido dando un aumento sin precedentes del número de niños extranjeros no acompañados (UAC, unaccompanied alien children) de los países centroamericanos de Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras que emigran a los Estados Unidos. Durante los primeros seis meses del año fiscal 2012, agentes de inmigración estadounidenses detuvieron casi el doble del número de niños que fueron detenidos en años anteriores. La Oficina de Reubicación de Refugiados (ORR, Office of Refugee Resettlement), bajo el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS, Department of Health and Human Services), es la agencia encargada de cuidar y de custodiar a estos niños. La ORR tuvo un número sin precedente de 10.005 a su cargo en abril de 2012.
Violence in three Central American countries is the primary reason behind a dramatic upsurge in the number of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the border into the United States, and until conditions in these countries change substantially, this trend will be the new norm. The U.S. government is responsible for protecting children who are apprehended alone or without caregivers but has struggled to deal with the influx.
Increased Migration of Unaccompanied Children to the United States
Beginning as early as October 2011, an unprecedented increase in the number of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) from the Central American countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras began migrating to the United States. During the first six months of fiscal year 2012, U.S. immigration agents apprehended almost double the number of children apprehended in previous years. The Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the agency tasked with the care and custody of these children, had a record number of 10,005 in its care by April 2012.
Remarks made by Michelle Brane, director, Migrant Rights & Justice program, on Receiving the Eleventh Annual Daniel Levy Memorial Award
