Friday, June 20, 2014

Illegal immigration dilemma: Are migrant children refugees or criminals?

Everyone is still trying to figure out what to do with all the children who have crossed our border recently.    - - Donna Poisl

By Patrik Jonsson, Staff writer

 An overwhelmed US immigration system is trying to figure out the exact legal status of thousands of immigrant children rushing the US border. In one of the most politicized asylum systems in the Western world, that won’t be easy.

The growing crush of vulnerable migrant children crossing the Rio Grande and entering the US through south Texas has put urgency to a vexing question for the US immigration system:

Are children fleeing Central American violence refugees who need asylum or illegal gold-diggers who need to go home?
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