In October and November more than 10,500 children were apprehended illegally crossing the U.S border

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In December 2014, the State Department created a program under which minors from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could apply in their home countries to be refugees in the United States and avoid the dangerous journey through Mexico. As of November, more than 5,100 of the nearly 6,000 applications have come from El Salvador, although just 16 of them have been approved, according to department figures.



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