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Obama budget to include $1 billion for Central America
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/30/us-usa-immigration-centralamerica-idUSKBN0L22M920150130Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget on Monday will include $1 billion in new aid for Central America as part of a broad effort to address the unaccompanied child migration crisis, the White House said on Thursday.
The move, disclosed earlier to Reuters by Democratic congressional aides, follows last year's arrival in the United States last year of tens of thousands of illegal migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador - including more than 60,000 children traveling without their parents.
The surge of arrivals caused widespread alarm in the country, and a political problem for Obama as he pushed Congress for a sweeping reform of U.S. immigration laws.
Central American leaders had asked the United States for billions of dollars in aid to improve conditions in their countries and help stem the flow of would-be immigrants.