Under Southern Border Plan, Mexico Deporting Migrating Minors in Record Numbers
Carrie Kahn - NPR.org
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December 1, 2015
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Women and their children wait in line to register at the Honduran Center for Returned Migrants after being deported from Mexico. (Jorge Cabrera/Reuters)

Planes and buses arrive in Guatemala every day, returning migrants who've tried and failed to make it to the United States. Many are minors, stopped by Mexican police and deported back home.

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U.S. border officials are seeing an increase in the number of migrant children arriving from Central America. The numbers are not as high as during the surge in the summer of 2014. And one reason for that is that Mexico is stopping the children along the way and deporting them back to their homelands in record numbers.

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