To read the entire article, “The U.S. Deported 235,413 People in 2015,” click this link: http://www.vocativ.com/news/266168/the-u-s-deported-235413-people-in-2015/.

‘Human rights groups have criticized the U.S. government for deporting undocumented immigrants back to Central American countries where the death rates are high enough to consider the U.S.’s deportation a violation of international law, according to a recent investigation by the Guardian. Social scientist Elizabeth Kennedy at San Diego State University researched U.S. deportees. She found 45 people had been killed in El Salvador since being sent back, three in Guatemala and 35 in Honduras from January 2014 to October 2015, according to the Guardian.’

Para leer el reportaje completo, “Advierten que muchos migrantes que sean deportados podrian ser asesinados en sus países,” haga click aqui: http://www.univision.com/noticias/indocumentados/advierten-que-muchos-migrantes-que-sean-deportados-podrian-ser-asesinados-en-sus-paises.

‘Los planes de deportar a cientos, quizás miles de migrantes centroamericanos que ingresaron indocumentados a Estados Unidos después del 1 de enero de 2014 y tienen una orden final de deportación, podrían terminar de manera trágica, dijo una investigadora que en 2013 advirtió la oleada de niños y adultos centroamericanos que puso en jaque al gobierno del presidente Barak Obama a mediados del 2014.

“Algunos inmigrantes que sean deportados van a ser asesinados”, dijo a Univision Noticias Elizabeth Kennedy, profesora e investigadora de la Universidad Estatal de San Diego y de la Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara, California. Agregó que funcionarios estadounidenses “entienden” el problema e insistió en que “estas personas son refugiados que necesitan nuestra protección”.

“Se trata de niños, niñas, adolescentes, mujeres, hombres y familias de El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras que han llegado hasta la frontera de Texas huyendo de la violencia y la pobreza en sus países”, apuntó Kennedy, quien finaliza un nuevo estudio que “recopila casos de migrantes retornados que después de su deportación de México y Estados Unidos fueron asesinados”.
El informe será publicado a principios de enero de 2016.

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“No se mucho sobre las redadas”, aclara la investigadora. “Sólo lo que leí en el reportaje de The Washington Post, que dice que los planes todavía están bajo de construcción, que posiblemente van a empezar en enero, y que cientos (de migrantes) pueden ser afectados”.

Añade que “alrededor de 68,000 menores no acompañados, 68,000 familias, y al menos 60,000 adultos solteros más, llegaron en 2014” al país procedente del denominado Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica, y que esos niveles de migración “son los mismos que vimos durante las guerras civiles en El Salvador y Guatemala hace 20 y 30 años”.

“Además, El Salvador va a terminar el 2015 con una taza de homicidios más alta, 100 asesinatos por cada 100,000 habitantes. Sólo Siria tiene un nivel mas alto”, resaltó.

A mediados de diciembre, tras la publicación de un informe de la Patrulla Fronteriza y las preocupaciones de la Casa Blanca respecto a un aumento de detenciones de niños migrantes en la frontera con México, Kennedy señaló que “no existe una nueva oleada migratoria”, y que los números de guatemaltecos, hondureños y salvadoreños que están huyendo de sus países “han sido altos y siguen siendo altos”.

“Casi el 70% de las mujeres intentaron encontrar protección en sus países antes de huir hacia Estados Unidos”, uno de los cruces más peligrosos en el que arriesgan sus vidas y “nada garantiza” que serán admitidos si son arrestados por las autoridades federales de inmigración, apuntó.’

Para leer una version de ese reportaje en el periodico, El Tiempo, de Honduras se llama “Algunos migrantes temen ser deportados de EEUU por la violencia en Honduras,” haga clic: http://www.tiempo.hn/huyen-de-la-violencia-migrantes-hondurenos-que-sean-deportados-podrian-ser-asesinados/ .

To read the entire article, “U.S. Plans to Sweep Out Undocumented Central American Immigrants,”click this link: http://www.visiontimes.com/2015/12/25/u-s-plans-to-sweep-out-undocumented-central-american-immigrants.html.

“At least 83 people from Central America who were deported between January 1, 2014, and October 1, 2015 from the U.S. were murdered after they returned home, according to Elizabeth Kennedy, a social scientist at San Diego State University.

Forty-five of these deportees were murdered in El Salvador, three in Guatemala, and 35 in Honduras. At the same time, more … people that Mexico deported were murdered. The U.S. has an obligation to follow up with children after they have been deported, but so far authorities have not done that, Kennedy added.”

Note: the article indicates that 90 people deported from Mexico to the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have been murdered. In my research, I have seen reports that 90 people TOTAL deported from the United States (83) AND Mexico (7) have been murdered between 1 January 2014 and 1 October 2015.

To read the entire article, “Central American Migration: New Concerns As Numbers Rise One Year After Unprecedented Influx,” click this link: http://fronterasdesk.org/content/10176/central-american-migration-new-concerns-numbers-rise-one-year-after-unprecedented.

“In the first 10 months of this year, El Salvador reported nearly 5,500 homicides. Elizabeth Kennedy, a Fulbright Scholar and social scientist at San Diego State University, has calculated that the number is higher than any other nation not at war. She described a situation in Central America that is dire.”

To read the entire story by Lorne Matalon, “Fear of Crime Brings Another Wave of Central American Migrants,” click this link: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/dec/09/fear-crime-prompts-another-wave-central-american-m/.

“In the first 10 months of this year, El Salvador reported nearly 5,500 homicides.

Elizabeth Kennedy is a Fulbright Scholar and social scientist at San Diego State University. She has calculated the number is higher than any other nation not at war. She described the situation in Central America as dire.”

To listen to the entire segment, “Central American Migrant Crisis Intensifies,” click this link: http://www.kcrw.com/people/elizabeth-kennedy.

To read the entire Los Angeles Times article by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, “More Central Americans fleeing violence to enter U.S., sugesting another major surge,” click this link: http://www.latimes.com/nation/immigration/la-na-border-stats-20151114-story.html.

“During the first 10 months of this year, El Salvador reported nearly 5,500 homicides, according to a congressional report last month. That’s more than any other country not at war, according to Elizabeth Kennedy, a San Diego State University social scientist who has worked with migrants.

By the end of this year, the homicide rate in El Salvador — a country of 6.5 million people — may exceed 90 per 100,000, a level of violence, including massacres and killings of police, not seen since the country’s bloody 12-year civil war that ended in 1992.

Kennedy said conditions also remain poor in Guatemala and Honduras — two other originators of illegal migration to the U.S. — but El Salvador is worse.

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“We’re seeing more and more indications that this is a refugee crisis, and it needs to be treated as such,” said Kennedy, who interviewed immigrant women, mostly mothers, for a new United Nations report released last month that documented a thirteenfold increase in asylum seekers within Mexico and Central America since 2008, and a nearly fivefold jump in the U.S.”

On “To The Point” with Warren Olney on 9 November, entitled “Is the US Breaking a Promise to Children at Risk?” Here’s the site’s description:

Tens of thousands of children face murderous street gangs, extortion and sexual violence in Central America. For those whose parents are legally in this country, President Obama pledged “an orderly alternative” to the terrifying journey through Mexico. But until they pass laborious screening, including DNA testing, they have to stay where they are — whatever the dangers might be. It’s been a year since the President promised escape. Some 5400 kids have applied, but only 90 kids have even been interviewed. None has been admitted to the United States.

Guests:
Lavinia Limón, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (@USCRIdc)
Bill Frelick, Human Rights Watch (@BillFrelick)
Michael D. Shear, New York Times (@shearm)
Elizabeth G. Kennedy, researcher and social scientist (@EGKennedySD)

Listen to the full audio here: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/red-tape-slows-help-for-kids-in-danger-in-central-america/is-the-us-breaking-a-promise-to-children-at-risk

More:
Central American Minors (CAM) program
Shear on the red tape that slows help for children fleeing Central America

Here’s a brief summary I’ve created about the CAM program from my own reading of English- and Spanish-language news articles recently published:

The program has only interviewed 90 (76 Salvadorans, 14 Hondurans and no Guatemalans) of the more than 5,400 applicants. Ten of the Salvadorans were granted refugee status, but none have yet arrived to the United States. The first are expected to arrive in the next two weeks, according to the Department of State’s PRM. Sixty-five other Salvadorans were recommended for the two-year humanitarian parole, and one was rejected. Among Hondurans, none were granted refugee status. Thirteen were recommended for humanitarian parole, and one was rejected. There are plans for 420 more of the applicants to be interviewed before the end of 2015.

Salvadoran Ambassador Roberto Fuentes Francisco Altschul (http://www.elsalvador.org), Alex Sanchez (Homies Unidos), Maria Jose Benitez (UNICEF El Salvador) and I will discuss gangs in El Salvador on Al Jazeera English’s “The Stream” on Wednesday, 21 October 2015. To watch this show, “El Salvador’s gangland,” and past shows, click here: http://stream.aljazeera.com, or follow them on Twitter at @AJStream. To learn more about how to support Homies Unidos’s work, click this link: http://homiesunidos.org. To learn more about UNICEF’s work in El Salvador, click here: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/elsalvador.html.

On Saturday, 17 October 2015, I was on a panel on immigration and refugee law at Stanford University’s Law School Shaking the Foundations Conference. To learn more about the conference, click this link:  http://shaking.stanford.edu/schedule.html. To learn more about the work of my co-panelists, which I highly recommend supporting, click the links provided beside their names:

Alison Kamhi, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), http://www.ilrc.org

Kaitlin Kalna Darwhal, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto (CLESPA), http://www.clsepa.org/our-team/

Eunice Lee, UC-Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS), http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/about/bio/eunice-lee

Kai Paul Kailani Medeiros, Stanford University Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, https://law.stanford.edu/immigrants-rights-clinic/