Refugee status for Honduran children?

[Bob Of Burleson]

Obama administration
weighs giving Honduran
children refugee status

CBSnews.com

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is weighing giving refugee status to young people from Honduras as part of a plan to slow the influx of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, White House officials said Thursday.

The plan would involve screening youths in Honduras, one of the world's most violent nations, to determine whether they qualify for refugee status. Similar in-country screening programs were set up in East Asia after the Vietnam War and in Haiti in the 1990s.

The officials cautioned that no final decision on the matter had been made and said the proposal was among a range of ideas the White House was considering. The officials briefed reporters ahead of President Barack Obama's meeting Friday with Central American leaders on the condition they not be identified by name.

The United Nations has been pushing the U.S. to treat children arriving at the southern border from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador as refugees displaced by armed conflict. The trio of nations has become one of the most violent regions in the world in recent years, with swathes of all three countries under the control of drug traffickers and street gangs who rob, rape and extort ordinary citizens with impunity.

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[Addisonrose]

Can't do it. Refugees are considered refugees at the first country they step foot into and that my folks would be Mexico.

But the law has never stopped him. Then we will get the relatives who aren't already here.

[Red Oak]

The POS POTUS will transport them directly into the US.

How does it feel to loose your Country ?

Hmm ?

[Addisonrose]

MF needs to be stopped. No one seems to have the desire or backbone to do it.

[Bob Of Burleson]

Honduran president: U.S.
‘has enormous responsibility’
for immigration

By Ed O'Keefe and Marlon Correa
The Washington Post

The historic influx of illegal immigrants from Central America is caused primarily by the high demand for illicit drugs in the United States, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said Thursday.

"If you look at the root of the problem, you’ll realize that your country has enormous responsibility for this," Hernandez said in an interview with The Washington Post -- one of the only few extended conversations he had with American news outlets during his visit this week to Washington.

Hernandez and the leaders of Guatemala and El Salvador are scheduled to meet Friday with President Obama, Vice President Biden and members of Congress to discuss the mass migration of Central Americans to the United States, many of whom are young, unaccompanied minors.

Drug trafficking to the United States "generates violence, reduces opportunities, generates migration because this is where there’s the largest consumption of drugs. And we’re on the route," he said. Raging drug violence in Honduras "is leaving us with such an enormous loss of life, and young people, generations of young people that we have lost because they entered the world of drugs. What is being done in the U.S. on the topic of drugs?"

He suggested later that American officials believe that drugs "is a health problem. For us, it’s a matter of life and death, and that’s not fair. What’s fair is that we work together dealing with our own responsibilities."

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[Red Oak]

Yeah we have a gazillion laws against illicit drugs, and we are questioned snooped on and generally hassled to death in the War on Drugs. Exactly what have the Central American Savages done ? Other than to benefit from The sales and smuggling of illegal drugs and humans ?