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Unwittingly, the underage migrants of Latin America have scored

a major achievement: getting the U.S. to acknowledge the many

facets of why these youngsters find it necessary to risk their lives.

 

 

The Undeniable Power of Our Migrant Children (Diario Co Latino, El Salvador)

 

"Unaccompanied Central American children have achieved what all others efforts have failed to do: they have brought together the presidents of the Northern Triangle countries with the world's most powerful chief executive - Barack Obama How wonderful that the children have power. How wonderful that they have managed to make presidents sit up and take notice, including that of the empire, of the structural problems in their home countries. It is a very good thing that the children have reminded Obama that he has an outstanding debt to the migrants, who have been a major issue in his two election campaigns."

 

EDITORIAL

 

Translated By Ricardo Cidra

 

August 9, 2014

 

El Salvador - Diario Co Latino - Original Article (Spanish)

The more than 50,000 unaccompanied Central American migrant children detained in the United States, of which 10,000 to 12,000 are Salvadoran, have achieved what all others efforts have failed to do: they have brought together the presidents of the Northern Triangle countries with the world's most powerful chief executive - Barack Obama.

 

The issue of migrant children has become an issue at the highest political level, because within a period of two or three weeks, the above number of children was detained on the U.S. border.

 

News spread like wildfire that in places the children were being kept, they were being inadequately treated, in part because of the sheer number of infants, and in part because of racism and suspicion in regard to protecting the U.S. border leads the U.S. migratory authorities to ignore the international conventions, in this case, to protect children.

 

The crisis that led to the migration of these children forced the United States to send its vice president, Joe Biden, to meet with the leaders of their countries of origin: Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

 

During that meeting, in addition to studying some of the mechanisms that were put into practice immediately, such as reinforcing the borders and promoting campaigns to raise family awareness on the subject of children travelling northward under the "care of coyotes" - a meeting in Washington with Barack Obama was also agreed.

 

Our president, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, travelled to Washington D.C. to meet Barack Obama, along with the presidents of Honduras and Guatemala.

 

Undoubtedly, the meeting with Obama, described by President Cerén as "fruitful," was certainly "historic." We say it was historic because we believe it was the first time that a president of the greatest capitalist power met with presidents of the Northern Triangle to discuss the issue of migration.

 

It is historic, too, because of the agreements. Surely the main one, which was the position of the Central American presidents, is that the United States will respect a 2008 migratory law which stipulates that migrant children, who come from a country that doesn't border the United States, should be brought before a judge to decide whether they qualify for asylum or should be deported.

 

We don't doubt that many thousands of our children will benefit from seeing a judge and will achieve their "dream": to rejoin their mothers or fathers.

 

It is also historic because the United States has finally acknowledged that the issue of migration is the responsibility of several parties:  the country of origin, the country of transit, and of course, the country of destination.

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Finally, it is historic because, although migration is a characteristic of human nature, in the case of the Northern Triangle countries, the causes are "structural," and combating it means helping them counter underdevelopment.

 

Hopefully, this recognition will lead to the United States to sign the FOMILENIO II [anti-money laundering law], rather than continuing to infringe on our sovereignty and dictating the reform of our laws.

 

How wonderful that the children have power. How wonderful that they have managed to make presidents sit up and take notice, including that of the empire, of the structural problems in their home countries. It is a very good thing that the children have reminded Obama that he has an outstanding debt to the migrants, who have been a major issue in his two election campaigns.

 

SEE ALSO ON THIS:
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La Jornada, Mexico: Mexicans in the U.S.: A Nation Within a Nation

El Universal, Mexico: Lawmakers Condemn Arizona's 'Racist' Anti-Immigrant Law

Diario Co Latino, El Salvador: Europe and U.S. Equally Cruel to Migrant Workers

El Periodico, Guatemala: Obama is Right: U.S. People Need Spanish Lessons!
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TLZ, Germany: America's Hate-Filled Rhetoric 'Unworthy of a Democratic Nation'  

 

 

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Posted By Worldmeets.US August 9, 2014, 2:59pm