On Wednesday it was announced that the State Department was ending the Central American Minors program with barely any notice. It allowed children from Central American to be granted asylum in the United States if they had family members in the US and passed an application process. It was instituted in 2014 by the Obama administration in response to the thousands of Central American children arriving at the southern border seeking refuge from gangs or other forces looking to hurt them. The Trump administration had been scaling back the program all year and they were expected to end it at some point, but the short notice gave families who were already deep into the application process one day to file their paperwork. As of August, 1627 minors had been able to come to the United States as refugees through this program, and 1465 were able to come on temporary parole. In August, the administration cancelled the parole program and 2700 children who had already been applied and been accepted but had not left yet were informed that they were no longer able to go.
https://theintercept.com/2017/11/10/trump-administration-suddenly-cancels-refugee-program-that-saved-lives-of-central-american-children/
Patrick Schaefer
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