The refugee children at our southern border - this generation's MS St. Louis moment?

[hedgehog]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis

"President Obama once declared children who illegally enter the United States a “humanitarian crisis,” but officials with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) hope that the United States and Mexico will soon view these kids as refugees. The designation could potentially pressure the two countries to consider granting asylum to many of the 52,000 Central American children who have fled their countries due to criminal violence and grinding poverty. "

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/08/3457440/un-officials-seek-refugee-status-for-kids-coming-into-america-alone/