Title: There Are Many Reasons Why Central Americans Flee To The U.S. : NPR
Headings: There Are Many Reasons Why Central Americans Flee To The U.S.
Latin America
There Are Many Reasons Why Central Americans Flee To The U.S.

Content: The neighborhoods where a lot of these folks come from are very poor, and people have scarce resources. And so it's not quite so easy going into a neighborhood that does not have gang activity. You need to have a lot more economic resources to be able to do that. INSKEEP: Is the news from the United States, the separation of parents and children, which has now ended but it did happen, the effort by the attorney general to narrow the conditions for asylum, is that news causing anyone that you've heard of to decide not to flee to the United States? ANDRADE: Not that I've heard of. I'm sure that people may be pausing on whether or not they're going to go immediately or if they are already en route what their next move may be. But for the most part, people are at their wits end and don't see that there's any other alternative. One of the Jesuit priests here has described it being in a dark, dead-end alley.