Biden administration to expand program admitting young Central Americans

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Biden administration to expand program admitting young Central Americans
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-15/biden-administration-to-expand-program-admitting-central-american-children%3f_amp=true


Young Central American migrants wait in La Joya, Texas, to be taken to a Border Patrol holding area in March. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)



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The Central American Minors program, as it is known, focuses on children and youths from the so-called Northern Triangle countries of the region just south of Mexico.
The countries, which produce the majority of migrants attempting to reach the U.S. border, are a priority target for President Biden in his efforts to improve the immigration system and make it more “humane” and orderly, a task he has assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Harris, during a recent tour of Mexico and Guatemala, repeatedly emphasized the need for legal ways for migrants to travel to and remain in the U.S., reducing the illegal, chaotic and dangerous journeys that thousands attempt to make.

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The Central American Minors program had allowed parents living legally in the U.S. to petition to have their children reunited with them. And it allowed those attempting to go to the U.S. to apply and await the processing of their applications in their home countries.

Former President Trump abruptly shut down the program in 2018, stranding more than 3,000 family-reunification cases already being processed.
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