They were told to do that by their families. Why did they make the trip to the border as kidsby themselvesto present themselves? Because in three countries in Central America there is a state of lawlessness: Guatemala. Honduras. El Salvador. Eighty percent of the children who have come to the border came from those three countries. They are not just coming to the United States. incidentally. There has been a 700percent increase in refugees to adjoining Central American countries from those three countries. This has been going on for some time. But for the past 2 or 3 years. it has gone from bad to dramatically worse.
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