Guatemala and Unaccompanied Children

unaccompanied children: The scale and pace of the displacement crisis is staggering. This year, U.S. custom officials picked up 17,500 unaccompanied children from Honduras, 15,700 from Guatemala and 14,500 from El Salvador. , according to CBC. Most of these kids are currently in limbo, interned in the roughly 100 shelters scattered along the U.S.-Mexico border. This past year alone, more than 62,000 children and adolescents made the perilous trek from the northern triangle El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to what they hoped would be safe refuge in the U.S. Five years ago, there were just over 3,000 from all three countries combined. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.