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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
Sun Jul 13, 2014, 11:57 PM Jul 2014

Managua Extraordinary Declaration pertaining to the unaccompanied children at our borders.

I don't know if this has been posted. Unfortunately I can only post a bit of it.

This is a press release from the US Embassy in Nicaragua following a meeting of the US and Central American countres.

5) Migration Management—The Member Countries commit themselves to undertake coordinated actions to detect traffickers, smugglers, and related crimes, in order to discourage irregular flows, including the trafficking and smuggling of unaccompanied migrant children, which has resulted in the current humanitarian crisis.

6) Development – Recognizing that there are many factors that explain the increasing number of unaccompanied children migrating irregularly, the Member Countries commit to working together, and to seek international collaboration, to address the structural causes of this irregular movement of unaccompanied migrant children as well as working toward the eradication of such causes, such as creating social and economical development programs in the communities of origin.

7) Consular Protection—Strengthen the institutional capacities of consular protection, in particular assistance to unaccompanied children, and reinforce coordination for consular access where these unaccompanied migrant children are located.

http://mexico.usembassy.gov/press-releases/managua-extraordinary-declaration.html

As a basic outline, this sounds like a good beginning. It's going to cost a lot of money and take a lot of work.

8) Repatriation and Reintegration—Consistent with the RCM’s commitment to supporting the rule of law, in those instances in which children are returned with their families to their country of origin in accordance with due process, and after exhausting all other immigration benefit options, and acknowledging the potentially vulnerable situation of children, the Member Countries agree to cooperate among themselves to dedicate sufficient resources to implement reinsertion and reintegration programs in their communities of origin.

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