U.S. Considering Refugee Status for Hondurans

*Cecilia  Muñoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said today that reporting on this plan is premature.  She added that the administration is studying all options to manage the border situation. VL

By Frances Robles and Michael D. Shear, New York Times

Hoping to stem the recent surge of migrants at the Southwest border, the Obama administration is considering whether to allow hundreds of minors and young adults from Honduras into the United States without making the dangerous trek through Mexico, according to a draft of the proposal.

If approved, the plan would direct the government to screen thousands of children and youths in Honduras to see if they can enter the United States as refugees or on emergency humanitarian grounds. It would be the first American refugee effort in a nation reachable by land to the United States, the White House said, putting the violence in Honduras on the level of humanitarian emergencies in Haiti and Vietnam, where such programs have been conducted in the past amid war and major crises.

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