{"id":1051,"date":"2014-08-20T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2014-10-02T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:13:59","slug":"crisis-of-unaccompanied-minors-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/blog\/crisis-of-unaccompanied-minors-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis of unaccompanied minors, continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our discussion regarding the crisis of unaccompanied minors, the UN has produced an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcrwashington.org\/sites\/default\/files\/1_UAC_Children%20on%20the%20Run_Full%20Report.pdf\">excellent\u00a0report<\/a> worth reading. The report highlights the top countries from which the youth are coming (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico), as well as the top reasons for their leaving home. These reasons include societal violence, abuse at home, deprivation, and familial connections and opportunities in the U.S. The consistent experience of human sexual trafficking experienced by these\u00a0 youth is stunning and disheartening. What is highlighted clearly in the report is the obligation of the U.S. to provide assistance to youth who come from nations unwilling or unable to provide basic human protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our discussion regarding the crisis of unaccompanied minors, the UN has produced an excellent\u00a0report worth reading. The report highlights the top countries from which the youth are coming (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico), as well as the top &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/blog\/crisis-of-unaccompanied-minors-continued\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17778,3549,4344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-articles","category-blog","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/ecardemil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}