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The Paradox at the Heart of Obama’s Central American Refugee Policy

January 25, 2016 (1 min read)

Dara Lind, Jan. 25, 2016 - "How dangerous does the United States government think El Salvador really is?  Depending on how you look at it, the government's answer to that question is either nuanced or dangerously inconsistent.  In January, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the US will be devoting particular attention to finding and processing refugees in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala to bring to the United States.  But the administration is simultaneously continuing the nationwide raids it started in the first days of 2016 to find and deport families who had failed to get asylum and been ordered to leave the country.  In other words, at the same time that the US is promising to bring people out of Central America to the US, it's fighting very hard to send some Central Americans back."