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Andres Oppenheimer: U.S. misses the point on child migrants
President Barack Obama's vow to take executive actions to fix the immigration system and stem the avalanche of Central American children migrants to the United States is good news, but I'm afraid it will only be a Band-Aid approach, which won't address the key issue: keeping Central American kids in school.
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I recently stumbled into a chilling statistic from the Inter-American Development Bank : only 27 percent of youths in Guatemala, 40 percent in Honduras and 41 percent in El Salvador finish high school.
Yes, you read it right: more than 60 percent of Central American teenagers don't go to school, and are living on the streets in some of the countries with the highest per capita homicide rates in the world.
MORE HERE: http://wonkynewsnerd.com/andres-oppenheimer-u-s-misses-point-child-migrants/
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I recently stumbled into a chilling statistic from the Inter-American Development Bank : only 27 percent of youths in Guatemala, 40 percent in Honduras and 41 percent in El Salvador finish high school.
Yes, you read it right: more than 60 percent of Central American teenagers don't go to school, and are living on the streets in some of the countries with the highest per capita homicide rates in the world.
MORE HERE: http://wonkynewsnerd.com/andres-oppenheimer-u-s-misses-point-child-migrants/
