This report examines the arrival of tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America at the U.S. border from 2013-2014. Factors driving them include both longstanding challenges???chronic violence, economic despair, of???cial corruption, and the pull of family reunification???and the myth recently disseminated by greedy traf???ckers of lenient U.S. immigration policy. The report stresses a need to focus intensively on the long term factors.
