While migrants from Central America stream to the U.S. border, any positive effects of Biden’s 'root-cause' strategy will be slow and incremental at best.
The journey of Central American migrants to the U.S. border – a perilous trip across thousands of miles of mountains and deserts – starts in places like the dry corridor
The journey of Central American migrants to the U.S. border â a perilous trip across thousands of miles of mountains and deserts â starts in places like the dry corridor in western Honduras.
Many of the regionâs 1 million small farmers still live in adobe huts with no running water. Corrupt Honduran officials have invested too little in stabilizing or modernizing the region, allowing violent gangs to extort families. Recent droughts and hurricanes have created widespread hunger.
These longstanding problems throughout Central America are driving the current crisis on the southern U.S. border, where more than 170,000 migrants arrived in March in search of jobs and asylum. As the Biden administration grapples with this mounting surge, itâs proposing a $4 billion long-term plan (the biggest ever for the region) to attack the root causes of migration â corruption, violence and poverty â in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
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In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It s the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor s hardline immigration tactics.
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