Border

A new law implemented in 2009 states that if mothers with children or children alone come across the border from countries other than Mexico, they cannot be sent back. As word of this law became known and reached Central America children started making their way across Mexico to the US border. In 2011, 13,000 came and in 2012, 25,000, in 2013, 47,000 and estimated 60,000 for this year and 200,000 next year. Central American countries like Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua where 10,000,000 children live are plagues by drug cartels and associated crime so these children are willing to pay “coyotes” to help them get to America. Once at the border they swim or float across the river and then turn themselves into the authorities who must provide for them.