Immigration Reform: Enrique Peña Nieto and Barack Obama Discuss Accord For Migrant Children

President Enrique Peña Nieto called his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, to discuss the care and treatment of migrant children who travel as undocumented and unaccompanied minors, mainly from Central America, who enter the U.S. through the border with Mexico. In order to design a joint regional strategy between the U.S., Mexico and Central American nations, the Mexican President agreed to go to Guatemala on Friday and meet with Interior Minister, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong. Meanwhile, the U.S. president appointed Vice President Joseph Biden.

The meeting will also be attended by the presidents of El Salvador and Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina and Fernando Salvador Sanchez Ceren, respectively; and high-level representative of the government of Honduras, Jorge Ramón Hernández Alcerro. A statement reported that accompanying Secretary Osorio Chong will be the Undersecretary for Population, Migration and Religious Affairs, Mercedes del Carmen Guillén Vicente, and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs for North America, Sergio Alcocer.

According to Aljazeera, child migration is becoming a huge problem. "Forty-seven thousand child migrants have entered the US since October and 75 percent of them are from Central America. US officials predict that 60,000 or more may arrive by the end of 2014." The influx of minors has been totally overwhelming to border patrol authorities. The influx has occurred following legislation which presents migrants from non-border countries from being deported immediately - children and there mothers are allowed to stay while their case is reviewed.