More Mexican Minors and Women Migrate North

“In their report “The Truncated Hope,” Mexican researchers Blanca Villaseñor and Jose Moreno Mena provide additional evidence about the increased migration of Mexican youth to the United States. Drawing on data culled from the experiences of undocumented youthful migrants detained or sheltered in the Tijuana and Mexicali regions of Baja California, the authors report big leaps in teenage migration after 1996, citing for example a Mexican National Migration Institute statistic that revealed overall youth migration increased 50 percent from 1999 to 2000.

“A great number of adolescents, males as well as females, are joining the migratory process,” write the authors of The Truncated Hope. “This fact is of great importance, because due to their (youth) they become one of the most vulnerable groups, and without the most basic rights.” …”

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