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    News from La Prensa Honduras

    The website of the Honduran newspaper La Prensa has a special section on children migrants. My Spanish is not good enough to read it directly but if it is opened using Chrome it can be automatically translated to English. The translation is not very good but it gets the major points across. Right now the lead headline is '"More aggressive" Support request Honduras and Guatemala to the U.S." and the first story is about how the President of Honduras has been meeting with members of Congress to ask that newly arrived children be permitted to remain with their parents already in the USA.
    http://www.laprensa.hn/Especiales/Ni...rantes/Inicio/

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    "More aggressive" Support request Honduras and Guatemala to the U.S.

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    | Editors: Photos: Max LemusThey propose a similar alliance for Progress or Plan Colombia to fight the roots flow migrant children comprehensive plan.


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    Washington, United States.
    Support "much more aggressive" to address the causes of mass migration of children from their countries to the southern U.S. border yesterday demanded the presidents of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, and Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, political leaders of this country.

    Enter Special: Migrant Children


    They raised a similar alliance for Progress that the late President John F. Kennedy drove in the 60's or the Plan Colombia, seeking to create greater opportunities and stop the violence caused by transnational crime comprehensive operating plan in Central America, especially in northern countries triangle.


    The approach was made ​​by the heads of government at a conference
    organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in which security was discussed in the context of the current immigration crisis.


    "It's similar to the Alliance for Progress plan, but for now we just have it as draft," Hernandez told the press that Sent covering the historic meeting held today at the White House between the heads of government of Honduras , Guatemala and El Salvador and President Barack Obama.


    PRESS is the only written form of Honduras that covers from prior presidential high-level meeting Wednesday, which is the first circumstantially that the Honduran President will have with Obama since he became president of Honduras on 27 January.


    Presidents Juan Orlando Hernández, Otto Perez and Salvador Sanchez Ceren
    have been summoned by the head of the White House to address the humanitarian crisis that has led to the arrest of more than 57,000 children in Central Mexico border.


    It should be noted that Sanchez Ceren not participate in the meeting with their counterparts were influential U.S. senators yesterday or in the event organized by the CSIS.


    Border Patrol data show that from October 1, 2013 to date nearly 60,000 unaccompanied minors have been arrested on the border with Texas, of which 16,546 are Hondurans, Guatemalans and 17,301 14,086 Salvadorans.


    The situation led to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that has forced the White House to ask the Congress budgetary support to tackle the crisis, while the governor of Texas has mobilized thousand soldiers to reinforce the border with Mexico.


    Plan Colombia

    In his speech at the CSIS, Hernandez noted that the massive flow of U.S. children should be seen as a huge tragedy that humanity must thoroughly study and seek solutions.

    Remembered that this is a phenomenon that had never been seen in the history of Central America, but that arises in the last year by violence caused by drug trafficking and organized crime. He explained that the genesis of this situation arises because the Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative to combat drug trafficking, established by the United States in that South American country and Mexico, was relatively successful in both nations, but he inherited a monumental problem in Central America.


    "That is precisely what we now have with drug dealers and, in the case of Honduras, with drug dealers and gangs allied with levels of insecurity in this decade had ever seen and that cost us a number of losses of human lives we had not had in history, "he said.


    He insisted that the fight against drug trafficking in Colombia fought U.S. and Mexico
    has caused in Central America problem of gigantic proportions. Meanwhile, the head of the Honduran government blamed the emergence of this humanitarian crisis migrant children to ambiguity and lack of clarity of the immigration reform debate in the United States.


    "That lack of clarity, the coyotes, which are part of a network of organized crime, perversely take advantage and say to the families who are here, 'look, this reform is being done now may bring their children ', and that network of coyotes is the face of a giant monster that has other faces: the traffickers of weapons and drugs, "he said.


    The giant monster migration has one foot in Central America and Mexico and one in the United States.


    The president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, acknowledged that this problem have shared but differentiated responsibility, because unfortunately Central is on pace for those who traffic and produce the drug and those who consume mass, with the difference that in the United States has managed to reduce drug violence.


    "What he achieved in New York, they succeeded in Los Angeles, Miami and elsewhere, but there in Central America is a major problem," he said.


    In the case of Honduras, said that children who have massively migrated to the United States come from the 30 most insecure municipalities, where drug dealers and gang members cause huge violence.


    "We will not deny that in these places confluent drug traffic increased migration of children to the United States is registered."


    The Honduran president said in his six months at the helm of the Government entered front in the fight against violence with various actions and safety and security policies, including a law on protection of airspace that caused the removal U.S. assistance in the area of ​​intelligence.


    "We have strengthened our borders, we have closed the Department of Immigration before we had to create a new one because many of them were in collusion with drug gangs.


    By now we have captured and we have in jail and 12 coyotes are in research that is going to take more. "


    Hernandez said that the presidents of El Salvador and Guatemala fully agree that this problem will not be solved if unchallenged from the root and that requires a comprehensive work on the principle of shared responsibility, and in this, the U.S. and Central American countries are responsible.


    Carsi Initiative, a failure

    The head of the Honduran executive questioned the Regional Security Initiative Central (Carsi), created by the U.S. to fight organized crime and promote development in the region has been a resounding failure.
    "For many officials in Central America, it has been almost a joke because he was promised a number of resources and in particular at the end there was virtually nothing," he said.

    The president said that breach of this promise by the United States has placed them in a precarious position to tackle the problem of violence, one of the roots of the growing migration flow to this nation.


    The initiative, created in 2008, was equipped with a heading of 642 million in assistance to support tasks of combating organized crime and improve conditions, economic and social development in Belize security, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.


    Hernandez said that such failure has hindered respond to the crisis caused by the exponential growth of migration of unaccompanied minors in the United States.


    USA, the less invested

    Guatemalan President Otto Perez said the humanitarian crisis caused by the flow of migrant children is on track to be resolved in the short term, but said it needed more support from the United States to attack the root of the problem and create new opportunities for infants and families.

    He said that the measures it has taken each of the countries involved in the flow of migrant children, this has been reduced by over 50%. "It's a problem situation, but I'm sure it will solve."


    Pérez insisted that the United States needs to work with Central America on a much more aggressive program to address the problems of security and a plan to attract investment and create new opportunities to help reduce the enormous gap between rich and poor cooperation.


    Regretted that in recent years the United States will be transferred from the main investor in Guatemala to seventh place behind Canada, Russia and Colombia.


    "If we need something, are these opportunities to create jobs and that will prevent the United States need to be investing in the safety of your border."


    The Guatemalan president stressed that it is time that all of these challenges and possible weaknesses work together and develop a plan for Central America in which all countries can work together.


    "If we are accompanied by a plan for Central America, as was done with the Plan Colombia or have already made other plans of USA, I have no doubt that we would be solving real problems that are occurring on the border with America. "

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    Jul 25, 2014Obama ofrece revisar casos de menores, pero no en EUA

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    | Redacción: Redacción: Dagoberto Rodríguez / Fotos: Max LemusEl jefe de gobierno estadounidense se reunió con los presidentes de Honduras, Guatemala y El Salvador para abordar la crisis migratoria.
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    Washington, Estados Unidos.

    Honduras llevaba la propuesta de que se permitiese reunificar a miles de niños que han sido detenidos en los últimos meses en la frontera de Texas y Arizona y que se les concediese el estatus de refugiados o asilados políticos.

    De esta propuesta solo se le pudo arrancar a Obama la posibilidad de someter a revisión los casos de los infantes que comprueben que su vida corre peligro por la violencia que azota a sus países, pero sus expedientes serán revisados en sus naciones de origen, con lo cual se busca evitar que se expongan a la peligrosa travesía de llegar a este país.

    Vea especial multimedia: Niños migrantes de Honduras

    Expectativas truncadas

    La reunión entre Obama y los presidentes de Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández; de Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, y el gobernante salvadoreño Salvador Sánchez Cerén se celebró al filo de mediodía, hora de Washington, en medio de enormes expectativas de la comunidad hispana que reside en EUA.

    De hecho, los principales medios internacionales que cubren la Casa Blanca dejaron por un momento los asuntos de la política local e internacional y se dedicaron a hablar de los niños migrantes.

    Previamente, los gobernantes del triángulo norte de Centroamérica tuvieron un almuerzo con el vicepresidente Joseph Biden y más temprano se entrevistaron con el presidente del Banco Interamericano (BID), Luis Moreno, con quien dialogaron sobre la posibilidad de financiar la elaboración de una propuesta regional para aminorar la inmigración de niños. De los tres gobernantes, el jefe de gobierno hondureño fue el que más insistió en la necesidad de la reunificar a los niños con sus familias y de que la sociedad estadounidense vea el flujo infantil como un problema humano derivado de la violencia criminal que azota a estas tres naciones centroamericanas.

    En un evento convocado el jueves anterior por el Centro Estratégico de Estudios Internacionales (CSIS), Hernández y Pérez Molina pidieron a los líderes estadounidenses un apoyo “mucho más agresivo” a sus naciones para atender las causas del flujo migratorio de niños a Estados Unidos.

    Ambos mandatarios abogaron por la implementación de un plan integral similar a la Alianza para el Progreso o el Plan Colombia, dirigidos a afrontar las desigualdades sociales y económicas y frenar la estela de violencia y muerte que dejan las bandas del crimen organizado y transnacional.

    Funcionarios de la administración de EUA adelantaron el jueves que estudiaban varias opciones para hacer frente al problema migratorio, entre ellas evaluar en los países de origen qué menores podrían ser candidatos a una emigración legal a EUA mediante la concesión, por ejemplo, del estatuto de refugiado si lo ameritan.

    La reunión con Obama duró un poco más de una hora, mientras, afuera de la Casa Blanca, organizaciones que defienden los derechos de las minorías hispanas y de los migrantes pedían un tratamiento justo y humano para los niños detenidos en condiciones precarias en albergues de la Patrulla Fronteriza y unidades militares.

    LA PRENSA fue el único periódico de Honduras que viajó con sus propios medios y estuvo presente desde el miércoles anterior dando cobertura amplia sobre el tema migratorio en la capital estadounidense. Además estuvo presente en la Casa Blanca cubriendo la histórica reunión presidencial.

    Al cabo del encuentro, Obama ofreció una declaración oficial a los medios que cubrían la cumbre, flanqueado por los presidentes Juan Orlando Hernández a su izquierda, Salvador Sánchez Cerén y Otto Pérez Molina a su derecha.

    Apoyo para Centro América: Obama

    En sus declaraciones a los periodistas, el presidente Obama reiteró su compromiso de resolver el problema migratorio con sus colegas centroamericanos desde una visión de responsabilidad compartida, pero bajo las leyes norteamericanas.

    Obama explicó que según la ley de Estados Unidos se puede aceptar a una cantidad específica de refugiados con criterios sumamente estrechos; estos criterios de selección y otorgamiento del estatus de refugiado no se basan en necesidades económicas, que vivan en barrios difíciles o estén en situación de pobreza.

    “Normalmente tiene que haber una persecución del Estado o la persona debe estar en una situación incluso creíble de muerte y quizás, en ciertas circunstancias, algunos niños o niñas que están en estas condiciones pueden solicitar acogerse a esta condición; pero si ese es el caso, deben solicitarla en sus países de origen y que no se expongan a esta travesía tan larga a Estados Unidos”, apuntó.

    Agregó que de otra manera no pueden darle cabida a una gran cantidad de menores migrantes que llegan a sus fronteras e insistió en que por eso es importante responder a las necesidades de corto y largo plazo y evitar que los traficantes de personas se lucren de las familias muy vulnerables.

    “Que les demos seguridad a las familias y oportunidad de largo plazo en los países centroamericanos y que podamos crear un sistema para permitir que la migración a Estados Unidos sea ordenada y legal”.

    El gobernante estadounidense dijo que trabajarán en consulta con los países centroamericanos con el propósito de identificar “medidas adicionales, tentativas y sensatas” para que las reunificaciones legales se puedan tramitar de manera justa y ordenada.

    Tras agradecer a los mandatarios centroamericanos su presencia en la Casa Blanca, Obama dijo que la reunión se concentró en discutir la situación migratoria que afecta a las familias en riesgo y que conlleva peligro para los niños no acompañados de Centroamérica que intentan ingresar a Estados Unidos.

    Responsabilidad compartida

    Obama reconoció que este asunto requiere una responsabilidad compartida y que lareunión de los mandatarios con el vicepresidente Biden sirvió para tratar los pasos específicos para abordar este problema.

    Añadió que habló con los Presidentes sobre los esfuerzos continuos de Estados Unidos, que incluyen incorporar más agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza, dedicar más recursos en la frontera en instalaciones que atienden a los niños y asignar más presupuesto para tribunales migratorios cuyo objetivo es tramitar las reunificaciones de los niños de manera ágil, oportuna, en los que se respete el debido proceso.

    “Hice hincapié ante los Presidentes en que el pueblo estadounidense y mi gobierno tienen gran compasión por estos niños y que estamos interesados en garantizar que reciban todos los cuidados que ameritan”.

    Sobre el mismo tema, el mandatario norteamericano aclaró que Estados Unidos es una nación de migrantes, pero también es un Estado de leyes, por lo cual una inmigración desordenada que ponga en riesgo a las personas por su estatus migratorio envía señales equivocadas de que quienes sí siguieron el proceso legal no tienen respaldo de la ley.

    Obama reconoció los esfuerzos de los Gobiernos de Honduras, Guatemala y El Salvador para desalentar el peligroso contrabando de niños y a los padres de familia que envían a su hijos en una travesía tan peligrosa y detener a las bandas de coyotes que trafican con personas aprovechándose de esta situación.

    Se redujeron los ingresos

    Los informes iniciales del Gobierno de Estados Unidos demuestran que los esfuerzos conjuntos dan resultados, como la reducción en más del 50% de los ingresos de niños no acompañados con respecto al mes anterior.

    El titular de la Casa Blanca admitió que debe hacerse más al mediano y largo plazo para detener esta situación y resolver los problemas de pobreza y violencia en Centroamérica.

    “Mi compromiso es trabajar con los Presidentes y colaborar para idear planes de acción agresivos con el fin de seguir trabajando en el fomento de la seguridad, en esfuerzos de desarrollo y mejor gobernabilidad en cada país”.

    El mandatario reconoció la responsabilidad compartida de su país en este aspecto y en el tráfico de drogas porque la demanda se encuentra en Estados Unidos. Además dijo que se trabajará en reducir el tráfico de armas de norte a sur.

    Sobre la reforma migratoria no ofreció una fecha específica, pero dijo que cuando se apruebe, Estados Unidos contará con capacidad de fortalecer los recursos que se destinan a la frontera, con el fin de tener una migración legal ordenada.

    El Presidente estadounidense agregó que está pidiendo a los miembros del Congreso que aprueben recursos adicionales antes de las vacaciones de agosto para ofrecer seguridad en la frontera, crear más puestos migratorios y dotar de mayores recursos a los países centroamericanos con el propósito de atender esta problemática.

    Finalmente agradeció a sus homólogos centroamericanos por su respuesta para atender la problemática de la forma más sensible y compasiva posible.





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    July 25, 2014

    Obama offers review juvenile cases, but not in U.S.


    10:00 pm | Written by: Editorial: Dagoberto Rodriguez / Photo: Max Lemus
    The head of U.S. government met with the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to address the immigration crisis.


    Honduras took the proposal to allow reunite thousands of children who have been arrested in recent months on the border of Texas and Arizona and to be granted refugee status or political asylum.


    This proposal only you could start to Obama the opportunity for a review of the cases of infants who find that their lives are endangered by the violence plaguing their country, but their records will be reviewed in their nations of origin, thereby which seeks to avoid being exposed to the dangerous journey to reach this country.


    See special multimedia: Migrant Children in Honduras


    truncated expectations


    The meeting between Obama and the presidents of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández; of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, and Salvador Sanchez Ceren Salvadoran president was held at the stroke of noon, Washington time, amid high expectations of the Hispanic community residing in USA.


    In fact, the major international media covering the White House for a moment left the affairs of the local and international politics and turned to talk of migrant children.


    Previously, the rulers of the northern triangle of Central America had a lunch with Vice President Joseph Biden and earlier met with President of the Inter-American Bank (IDB), Luis Moreno, with whom they discussed the possibility of financing the development of a regional proposal for reduce immigration of children. Of the three leaders, the head of the Honduran government was the one that insisted on the need to reunify children with their families and American society see the child as a human flow problems arising from the criminal violence plaguing these three Central American nations.


    In an event organized last Thursday by the Centre for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), Hernández and Pérez Molina called on U.S. leaders "a much more aggressive" their nations support will address the causes of the migration flow of children to the United States.


    Both leaders called for the implementation of a similar to the Alliance for Progress Plan Colombia or the comprehensive plan aimed at addressing social and economic inequalities and curb the wake of violence and death that leave gangs and transnational organized crime.


    Administration officials on Thursday ahead of USA studying several options to deal with the immigration problem, including evaluating the countries in which children might be candidates for legal migration to the U.S. by granting, for example, refugee status if warrant.


    The meeting with Obama lasted a little over an hour, while outside the White House, organizations that defend the rights of Hispanic migrant minorities and demanded a fair and humane treatment of children detained in poor conditions in hostels in Border Patrol and military units.


    PRESS was the only newspaper in Honduras who traveled with his own and was present from the previous Wednesday to give broad coverage of the immigration issue in the U.S. capital. Also attended the White House covering the historic presidential meeting.


    After the meeting, Obama offered an official statement to the media covering the summit, flanked by the presidents Juan Orlando Hernandez on the left, and Salvador Sanchez Ceren Otto Pérez Molina to her right.


    Support for Central America: Obama


    In his remarks to reporters, President Obama reiterated his commitment to solve the immigration problem with their Central American colleagues from a vision of shared responsibility, but under U.S. law.


    Obama explained that under the law of the United States can accept a specific number of refugees with very narrow criteria; these selection criteria and granting refugee status are not based on financial need, who live in difficult neighborhoods or are in poverty.


    "Normally there must be a state prosecution or the person must be in a believable situation even death and may, under certain circumstances, some boys and girls who are in these conditions can claim under this condition; but if that's the case, you must apply in their country of origin and are not exposed to this long voyage to America, "he said.


    He said that otherwise they can not make room for a large number of migrant children who arrive at their borders and stressed that it is important to respond to the needs of short and long term and prevent smugglers from profiting from families very vulnerable.


    "You give them security for families and long-term opportunity in Central America and we can create a system to allow migration to the United States is orderly and legal".


    The U.S. president said he will work in consultation with the Central American countries in order to identify "additional sensible measures, and attempts" to legal reunification can be administered in a fair and orderly manner.


    After thanking the Central American presidents his presence in the White House, Obama said the meeting focused on discussing the immigration situation affecting families at risk and danger involved for unaccompanied children trying to enter Central America.


    shared Responsibility


    Obama acknowledged that this case requires a shared responsibility and that the meeting of the heads with Vice President Biden served to address the specific steps to address this problem.


    He added that he spoke with the presidents of the continuing efforts of the United States, including getting more agents of the Border Patrol to spend more resources on the border in facilities that serve children and allocate more budget for immigration courts aimed handle reunification children agile, timely manner, in which due process is respected.


    "I stressed to the Presidents in the American people and my government have great compassion for these children and we are interested in ensuring that they receive all the care they deserve."


    On the same subject, the U.S. president said that America is a nation of immigrants, but also the rule of law, by which a disordered immigration endangers a person's immigration status sends the wrong signal to those who do followed the legal process do not have force of law.


    Obama acknowledged the efforts of the Governments of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to discourage dangerous smuggling children and parents who send their children in such a dangerous journey and stop the gangs of coyotes that smuggle people taking advantage of this situation.


    Revenues decreased


    Initial reports of the Government of the United States show that the joint efforts yield results, such as reduced by more than 50% of the income of unaccompanied children from the previous month.


    The head of the White House admitted that more must be done to medium and long term to stop this and solve the problems of poverty and violence in Central America.


    "My commitment is to work with the Presidents and collaborate to devise plans for aggressive action in order to continue working on the promotion of security, development efforts and better governance in each country."


    The president acknowledged the shared responsibility for their country in this aspect and drug trafficking because the demand is in the United States. He also said he will work to reduce arms trafficking from north to south.


    On immigration reform did not offer a specific date, but said that when approved, the U.S. will have the capacity to strengthen the resources allocated to the border, in order to have an orderly legal migration.


    The U.S. President said it is asking members of Congress to approve additional resources before the August break to provide border security, create more jobs and provide migratory greater resources to the Central American countries in order to address this problem.


    Finally thanked his Central American counterparts by their response to address the problems of the most sensitive and compassionate way possible.


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