The child migrant crisis seems to be over. What happened?

*It was hard for me to buy into the “crisis” thing, because calling the surge of unaccompanied minors at the border a crisis narrowed it to an effect without considering the cause. It also reduced the location of the crisis to the U.S.-Mexico border, when the problem stretched far beyond the Rio Grande, into Central America. And now that the “crisis” is over we’ll be moving on to other issues, but the things that caused it haven’t changed. That said, this is a good list of the things that contributed to ending the effect, the surge at the border. VL

 By Dara Lind, Vox

Earlier this summer Washington was in a panic about the “border crisis” — the arrival of tens of thousands of families and children from Central America crossing over the Texas border.

But by the time Congress returned in September, the crisis had completely dropped off the radar of policymakers, the media, and the public. So what happened?

Quite simply, the surge of child migrants has stopped. As of August 2014, the number of unaccompanied minorsapprehended at the border had fallen back below the previous year’s levels. (Apprehensions are a good metric here, because most of these children and families are actively seeking out Border Patrol agents once they reached the United States — rather than trying to cross undetected.)

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[Photo by CBP Photography/flickr]

 

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