US - Humanitarian crisis at border as thousands cross over, including unaccompanied minor children

[Mary Wilson]

Issued on: 02/10/2020 - 00:43
Entre-R?os (Guatemala) (AFP)

Thousands of mostly Honduran migrants bound for the United States surged across the border into Guatemala on Thursday, just weeks before a tense American presidential election where immigration is a key issue.

...Guatemalan Migration Institute officials said some 3,000 people had crossed the border without submitting to a Covid-19 test, required for foreigners entering the country.

https://www.rfi.fr/en/wires/20201002-thousands-us-bound-migrants-surge-guatemala

[sharon sanders]

Picture at link...


Inside a closed-door US Border Patrol facility in Texas


By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN

Updated 12:52 PM ET, Mon March 22, 2021

As the number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the US-Mexico border continues to rise, hundreds have been kept in US Border Patrol facilities not meant for minors.

The Biden administration has not allowed journalists to independently visit the facilities, but several lawmakers have visited sites. Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar provided these photos revealing the conditions for dozens of children and adults in an overflow facility in Donna, Texas.

more...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/polit...tos/index.html

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CNN, among other media outlets, has repeatedly asked for access to Customs and Border Protection facilities and Health and Human Services facilities.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/congress-texas-migrants-unaccompanied-minors-border-immigration/index.html