Author: Carmen Rodriguez

Violence, Main Motor of Child Migration in El Salvador

July 23, 2014

Susana (name changed to protect her identity) will have try again to make the journey to the United States with her son Daniel, 16. Both left everything they had in El Salvador to escape because a gang threatened to kill the boy for refusing to be a gang member. 



El Salvador Lacks Accurate Data on Child Migration

July 15, 2014

Officials at the Salvadoran Foreign Ministry do not have accurate data on the number of children who are traveling to the United States illegally at the hands of smugglers. The Vice Minister for Salvadorans Abroad, Liduvina Magarín, recently visited 12 sites that function as shelters, detention centers, and migrant processing centers located in the southern U.S. border. In a single day, these places received 310 Salvadoran children. Given the traffic and movement of people in recent months, it is speculated that the daily number of children passing through that border is between 500 and 600 Salvadoran children who have been sent with coyotes to the United States.

El gobierno de El Salvador, sin datos exactos sobre migración infantil

July 10, 2014

Las autoridades de la Cancillería salvadoreña no tienen datos exactos sobre la cantidad de niños que está viajando hacía Estados Unidos de forma ilegal en manos de traficantes de personas. La vice ministra para Salvadoreños en el Exterior, Liduvina Magarín, visitó en los últimos días 12 sitios que funcionan como albergues, centros de detención y centros de procesamiento para migrantes, ubicados en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos. Solo en un día, estos lugares recibieron a 310 niños salvadoreños.