While U.S. attention has been focusing on children from Central America, a majority of children crossing the U.S. border are Mexican. Unaccompanied Mexican minors are being detained and deported by the thousands, facing the threat of gangs and human traffickers. Are they being repatriated in a safe manner? Do they have access to child-friendly procedures for child asylum claims? And expert on political asylum comments on this topic. He also comments on how politics are not absent from the way the U.S. government is processing political asylum applications from Mexican exiles. Also discussed is a study which tells about the repatriation of unaccompanied Mexican minors from the United States to Mexico.
Guest: Attorney Carlos Spector Calderon, Asylum Law Expert, El Paso, TX; Maru Cortazar, Executive Director, Appleseed Mexico, Mexico City, http://www.appleseedmexico.org
For more information about Linea Abierta click here
To visit Linea Abierta audio archives go to archivosderb.org
