The Trump Administration Plans to End a Refugee Program for Children

ProPublica ^ | 14 September 2017 | Marcelo Rochabrun

[blueplum]

The Trump administration plans to stop accepting refugee applications from children with U.S.-based parents from three violence-riddled Central American countries — El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala — according to the summary of a presentation the State Department made recently to refugee organizations.

.....CAM admissions had already dwindled to a trickle. In August, 19 Central American refugees were admitted. By comparison, 160 were admitted last December, the single highest month. Over the history of the program, 1,627 refugees entered the U.S. through CAM, the overwhelming majority of them from El Salvador.

In August, the Trump administration terminated a program that served as a sort of back-up to CAM. The program allowed children who failed to qualify as refugees to be allowed into the U.S. temporarily if they could show there was a compelling humanitarian reason...

[blueplum]

The article makes reference to the end of programs for Haitians, Hondurans, Salvadorans, etc. as early as March?

I did check to see if there was a Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration at the State Dept, that was mentioned in the article, and, yes, we have one.

But I'd like more details if the State Dept did make some sort of 'verbal' announcement. Anyone?

[Gene Eric]

>> children with U.S.-based parents

Are we talking 20+ YO childs to illegals?

[oldplayer]

Exactly. What is with this weird, vague and ambiguous phrase, “U.S. BASED Parents?”

[conservative98]

Get R Done. And I don’t want to hear from any radicals in black robes on this either.

[txnativegop]

The black robes won’t be able to resist interfering, unfortunately.

[Pollster1]

The Trump administration plans to stop accepting refugee applications from children with U.S.-based parents from three violence-riddled Central American countries — El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala . . .

I think this means being here illegally used to help if your children then applied to come here. Sounds like a program ready to be killed.

[lilypad]

Remember children are 26 and under in Obamacare.

[montag813]

Just think of “ProPublica” as “Pravda” circa 1980, just worse.

[silverleaf]

For the same money spent, we could offer military aid to stop the aztecs and mayans from killing each other

[Lurkinanloomin]

from children with U.S.-based parents
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Illegal aliens.

[Engedi]

We already send those countries to help with the gangs and drugs. 750 million just under Obama.

[blueplum]

thanks for the heads-up, Montag.