Shadow Summit: The US Response to Central American Refugees | Panel III
Overview of Policy and Political Issues
- Kevin Appleby, Senior Director of International Migration Policy, Center for Migration Studies of New York
- Wendy Young, President, Kids in Need of Defense
- Guillermo Chacón, Chairman of the Board, New York Immigration Coalition
- Suny Rodriguez Alvarado, Former Detained Mother
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Shadow Summit: The US Response to Central American Refugees
The United States and other nations hosted a leaders summit to discuss the world refugee crisis and how nations can increase their commitments to refugee protection worldwide. The event looked at the U.S. record in its own backyard, specifically the policy response to unaccompanied children and families fleeing violence in the Northern Triangle of Central America. Speakers graded U.S. policies from a humanitarian perspective, examining push factors, protection needs, and the impact of enforcement and deterrence strategies.
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The Central American Humanitarian Crisis and US Policy Responses
CMS and the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), a not-for-profit organization focusing on protection and development programs for migrants, report back from a fact-finding mission in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico where the delegation toured migrant detention and return facilities, met with public officials and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and assessed how the US-Mexico policies of deterrence and interdiction have impacted the region and particularly those seeking to flee the record levels of violence in the Northern Triangle states of Central America....