Disorder at the Southern Border

Surge

Is the surge of illegal child immigrants a national security threat? - CBS News

Rate of Illegal Unaccompanied Minors Explodes after DACA

Exploding rate of Unaccompanied Minors jumps from 60 to >200 per day

What Brookings Scholars Are Saying about the Surge of Unaccompanied Children at the U.S. Border

"The fate of 47,000 children, most of them from Central America and the prospect of 43,000 more children crossing the Texan border illegally by the end of 2014 poses a serious challenge to the laws of the United States and our humanitarian values," writes Brookings Fellow Diana Villiers Negroponte in her recent primer on the influx of thousands of Central American children across U.S. borders. We should, she says, pursue policies that "balance our respect for immigration laws and due process with humanitarian values which ensure that the child will be cared for both in the United States and, when appropriate, upon return to the sending country."


Mexico: Law And Disorder
July 10, 2014: In the northeast (Tamaulipas state) police raided a location where 165 people from Cuba, Honduras, and El Salvador were being held captive by people smugglers who were demanding more money to get them into the United States. Such double dealing is common on the border, especially with non-Mexican migrants seeking someone who will get them across the border for a fee. Three of the kidnappers were arrested and the hostages said that one couple and their child had already been killed when they were unable to get anyone to produce more money for them. 

Warning Signs: Mexico is Deliberately Aiding Illegal Aliens

 Cause and Effect

The countries where these unaccompanied minors appear to come from have not suddenly changed, and the pressure to emigrate has been building for some time. DACA basically opened the safety valve on the pressure cooker.

Obama’s Immigration Policy: Identify The Problem And Do Nothing | The Daily Caller

President Obama did get something right about the current immigrations crisis. The root of the problem is not in the United States, it is the miserable social and economic conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. And, true to form, the Obama administration has completely ignored the root problem – that is until it became a political problem.

The statistics tell the tale. Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are the poorest countries in the continental western hemisphere with per capita incomes of less than $8,000 each (at purchasing power parity) according to the World Bank. Honduras’ per capita income is only $4,591. With the exception of Nicaragua, all are much poorer than their neighbors (Mexico has a per capita income of $16,463). Homicide rates are even worse, with Honduras suffering a rate of 90 per 100,000. Guatemala and El Salvador have rates of 40 and 41, more than triple Costa Rica and Nicaragua. By comparison, Mexico has a murder rate of 22 and the United States only 5.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/10/obamas-immigration-policy-identify-the-problem-and-do-nothing/#ixzz37HtDzyDw

The distribution of income in Central America

Latin America has the sad reputation of being one of the most unequal regions in the world. All Latin American countries exhibit levels of income inequality that exceed the average of each of the regions of the world except sub-Saharan Africa, and 10 Latin American countries are among the 15 most unequal in the world (CEPAL 2011; Gasparini and Lustig 2011). The Central American countries reproduce the high levels of inequality in the region. Medina and Galvan (2008) use the statistical technique of optimum stratification to classify Latin American countries into groups according to their Gini index of per capita family income (for around 2005). Costa Rica and El Salvador are located, along with Uruguay, among the countries with the lowest inequality in Latin America. At the other extreme, Guatemala and Honduras are located among the Latin American countries with the highest levels of inequality.

We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990 s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central America, and one of the most equal distributions of income in Latin America. At the other extreme, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua were among the most unequal countries in Latin America. Inequality in El Salvador was between these extremes. Then, in the first decade of the 21st century inequality in El Salvador and Nicaragua decreased while inequality in Costa Rica , Guatemala and Honduras increased. By 2009 levels of inequality in El Salvador and Nicaragua were similar to those in Costa Rica. In this paper, we examine why income and earning inequality differs between the five Central American countries, and why inequality decreased in El Salvador and Nicaragua but increased in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras .

DACA

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) is a memorandum authored by the Obama administration on June 15, 2012. It was implemented by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. It directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to practice prosecutorial discretion towards some individuals who immigrated to the United States as children and are currently in the country illegally.
A grant of deferred removal action does not confer lawful immigration status, alter an individual’s existing immigration status, or provide a path to citizenship.