The Mexican government has been deporting illegal immigrants from Central America. This concerted effort has in turn slowed down the migration of illegal minors across the US-Mexican border.
Those actions clearly have not halted migration. But the increasing difficulty of the trek — combined with high temperatures, the brisk pace of the deportation of Central Americans and a public-relations campaign warning people that they will not get visas in the US — is among the factors that may explain why fewer migrants are now crossing into the southwestern United States, with a particular decrease in the number of children traveling alone or with a relative.
Last month, 3,141 children traveling without a parent were apprehended at the United States-Mexico border, a 70 percent decrease from June.
Events this week in Baltimore show clearly that the US is not able to take care of its own young people, much less those of other countries. Slowing the Illegal Immigration of Minors to the US
