Ruben asked the officer on duty if he and his wife could please be deported together. The officer told him there were no guarantees, but he would do what he could. On Wednesday night Ruben and a handful of other migrants were put in a van and driven down to Nogales. His wife was not among them. When he climbed out of the van, they gave him back his personal belongings—his pack, his toiletries, his cell phone, what little money he had left—and escorted him along the port of entry building, through a side door, into Mexico.
When the tragic story of 12-year-old Noemi Álvarez Quillay hit The New York Times in April, it set off a kind of awakening north of the border. Trying to get to her parents in the Bronx, the girl had traveled 4,000 miles from Ecuador to the U.S. border in the company of strangers. She ended up hanging herself in a shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juárez. She wasn’t the only unaccompanied minor trying to make the crossing that season. The U.N. Refugee Agency had already issued a report noting its concern "at the increasing numbers of children in the Americas forced from their homes and families, propelled by violence, insecurity and abuse in their communities and at home."
In mid-June, CBP reported that in the eight months since October 2013, it apprehended more than 50,000 unaccompanied minors along the Southwest border, nearly a tenfold increase over the previous year. A bipartisan immigration reform bill, long debated and already passed by the Senate, was stalled again at the hands of the House Republican leadership. Hillary Clinton defended the Obama administration’s record-breaking deportation numbers and explained to Christiane Amanpour that parents south of the border must be getting the wrong impression from programs like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, whereby certain individuals who came to the U.S. as children, and now meet a host of criteria, might be allowed to stay a while longer. "We have to send a clear message: Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay.”
When the tragic story of 12-year-old Noemi Álvarez Quillay hit The New York Times in April, it set off a kind of awakening north of the border. Trying to get to her parents in the Bronx, the girl had traveled 4,000 miles from Ecuador to the U.S. border in the company of strangers. She ended up hanging herself in a shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juárez. She wasn’t the only unaccompanied minor trying to make the crossing that season. The U.N. Refugee Agency had already issued a report noting its concern "at the increasing numbers of children in the Americas forced from their homes and families, propelled by violence, insecurity and abuse in their communities and at home."
In mid-June, CBP reported that in the eight months since October 2013, it apprehended more than 50,000 unaccompanied minors along the Southwest border, nearly a tenfold increase over the previous year. A bipartisan immigration reform bill, long debated and already passed by the Senate, was stalled again at the hands of the House Republican leadership. Hillary Clinton defended the Obama administration’s record-breaking deportation numbers and explained to Christiane Amanpour that parents south of the border must be getting the wrong impression from programs like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, whereby certain individuals who came to the U.S. as children, and now meet a host of criteria, might be allowed to stay a while longer. "We have to send a clear message: Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay.”
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