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Obama expanding refugee program for Central Americans

Article author: 
Alicia A. Caldwell
Article publisher: 
Associated Press
Article date: 
Monday, July 25, 2016
Article category: 
National Issues
Medium
Tags: 
border
growth
Homeland Security
immigration
illegal aliens
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration will soon expand efforts to help Central American families and children legally immigrate to the United States....

... the administration will expand in-country refugee processing for families coming from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala...

The efforts are designed in part to combat the crush of tens of thousands of families and unaccompanied children caught crossing the border illegally ...

...more than 51,100 people traveling as families and more than 43,000 unaccompanied children have been caught illegally crossing the Mexican border...

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