[elpadre]

Other than Venezuela, what countries are experiencing great violence?? Enough that Hispanic families (usually very close and protective of one another) would send a child off??

[SAJ]

Just FYI, Guatemala is, and has been for some time, home to several ridiculously violent factions.

Honduras, as I write this, is the per capita murder capital of the entire world. There is no close second.

[Brad from Tennessee]

In 2014 Obama held meetings with the presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to discuss the migrant problem. I believe these meetings were about the coordination and timing of the migrant influx including children. The “children”—many of whom were tattooed gang-bangers—would be harder to deport based on humanitarian grounds. Once settled in the U.S. the children would become anchors justifying the immigration of their “parents” and other family members.