MEXICO CITY: Children from Central America often flee violence, hoping to find safety in the U.S. The number of Central American children detained by Mexican border patrols has almost doubled this year, increasing by 49 percent, the National Institute of Migration announced Tuesday. From the estimated 12,000 detained minors, over half were arrested between January and May this year and were travelling either alone or assisted by a human trafficker. According to the Mexican institute, 75 percent of minors are between 12 and 17 years old, but some were as young as just a few months old. State facility centers usually accommodate them before they are deported back to their countries of origin. RELATED: Mexico’s Deportation of Central American Migrants Skyrockets Most of the minors were from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, countries which are experiencing gang related violence and persistent poverty. “There is an undeclared civil war in Central America,” Father Flor Maria Rigoni, who runs a migrant shelter near the border with Guatemala, told the Guardian. “The refugees are coming, but the Mexican institutions aren’t taking the problem seriously.” According to U.S. law, authorities cannot deport minors that are not from Mexico without first going through the courts. The migrant crisis has worsened since Mexico tightened border control in 2014, including measures to prevent migrants from boarding trains that cross into the United States, also known as the “bestia,” or beast. More than half a million migrants from Central America board these trains annually, risking violence and even death due to the perils of the journey including gangs and traffickers who control the routes.
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