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How US policy in Honduras set the stage for today's mass migration

  • Written by Joseph Nevins, Associate Professor of Geography, Vassar College
imageU.S. Marines in Honduras in July 2016. Wikimedia Commons

Central American migrants – particularly unaccompanied minors – are again crossing the U.S.-Mexico boundary in large numbers.

In 2014, more than 68,000 unaccompanied Central American children were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico boundary. This year so far there have been close to...

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