Obama Admin. Deported More Than 13,000 Unaccompanied Mexican Minors in 2012

And, when it comes to deportation court hearings, it is not unusual for a toddler or a 6-year-old to appear in front of the judge without a lawyer.

July 29, 2013  |  

 

 

On Tuesday, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) released a report confirming that 13,454 unaccompanied Mexican minors under the age of 18 were deported from the U.S. in 2012, according to Animal Politico.Last year, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 6,548 accompanied and 24,481 unaccompanied children, a total that includes Mexican minors. The rate of border-crossing minors tripled since 2008 to the point that in 2012, unaccompanied minors comprised  79 percent of all juvenile border crossers. 

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Obama Admin. Deported More Than 13,000 Unaccompanied Mexican Minors in 2012

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More than 10,000 Children Were Deported to Mexico Last Year Alone

A young boy with his clothes placed in a plastic bag, crosses the Suchiate River that separates the border of Guatemala and Mexico. Many of such crossers continue on to the United States. (FERNANDO MORALES/AFP/Getty Images)

Although illegal border crossings have declined dramatically in recent years, more and more children are crossing the border alone.

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More than 10,000 Children Were Deported to Mexico Last Year Alone

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The conundrum of unaccompanied children

Unaccompanied foreign children are the most unresolved point of European migration policies. It is a problem that the authorities too often fail on. This is particularly the case in the recognition of refugee status, when the verification of the asylum seeker’s declarations in relation to his/her background takes on a fundamental importance.

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No Account Of Immigrant Kids In Greece

Thousands of immigrant children in Greece may be living on the streets or in places unknown, with only 397 being recorded staying in shelters, according to Giorgos Moschos, the Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in Greece.

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, Moschos described what difficulties unaccompanied children from foreign countries face in Greece.

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US health system failing unaccompanied immigrant children

Unaccompanied immigrant or "alien" children arriving in the USA with no papers or family often receive no or inadequate mental healthcare, says the author of an article published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Elizabeth Kennedy (San Diego State University, California, USA) explains that unlike unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) who are entitled to immediate access to a variety of medical and social services on entering the country, access to medical services is limited for children classified as unaccompanied alien children (UAC).

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