CFR Update: Pre-Hearing Brief Unaccompanied Alien Children: Pressing the Administration for a Strategy

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Pre-Hearing Brief Unaccompanied Alien Children: Pressing the Administration for a Strategy In light of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere hearing on Thursday, September 18 titled “Unaccompanied Alien Children: Pressing the Administration for a Strategy,” you may be interested in these recent CFR publications on the subject.

The U.S. Child Migrant Influx Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors, mostly from Central America, are arriving in the United States illegally, adding severe stress to an immigration system already in need of major overhaul. Read more » Protect Undocumented Children: Preserve the Wilberforce Law Mark Lagon and Patrick McCormick discuss the Obama administration's reaction to the recent influx in unaccompanied minors fleeing violence and poverty in South America. Read more » Responsibility for the Tragedy As the refugee crisis in Central America intensifies, Julia Sweig reflects in her column on the complex origins of this tragedy and human cost of the failure to address the immigration problem. Read more » A Nation of Laws Protects Refugees Patrick McCormick discusses the underlying causes of the "surge of unaccompanied minors" at the United States border. Read more » CFR EXPERTS ON LATIN AMERICA & IMMIGRATION Edward Alden is the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, specializing in U.S. economic competitiveness, and Director of the Renewing America Publication Series. Shannon O'Neil is Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and author of Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead.   Mark Lagon is an adjunct Senior Fellow for Human Rights and former ambassador-at-large, directing the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State. Julia Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies. Invitation to CFR Meetings on the Hill The Congress and U.S. Foreign Policy program engages members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate and their staffs on a wide range of international and economic issues. It offers a distinctive, nonpartisan forum that brings together policymakers with CFR fellows and experts who are leaders in their fields. The program offers CFR experts to the Hill for briefings, roundtable discussions, and to deliver congressional testimony. It also produces eNewsletters for congressional staff. For more information on how to attend CFR meetings on the Hill, or to be added to our private mailing list, email congress@cfr.org.