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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is weighing giving refugee status to young people from Honduras as part of a plan to slow the influx of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, White House officials said Thursday.The plan would involve screening youths in Honduras, one of the world s most violent nations, to determine whether they qualify for refugee status. Similar in-country screening programs were set up in East Asia after the Vietnam War and in Haiti in the 1990s. Border battle: Obama vows to act on immigration if Congress won t 02:45 The officials cautioned that no final decision on the matter had been made and said the proposal was among a range of ideas the White House was considering. The officials briefed reporters ahead of President Barack Obama s meeting Friday with Central American leaders on the condition they not be identified by name. The United Nations has been pushing t stanley cup he U.S. to treat children arriving at the sou stanley cups thern border from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador as refugees displaced by armed conflict. The trio of nations has become one of the most violent regions in t stanley cup he world in recent years, with swathes of all three countries under the control of drug traffickers and street gangs who rob, rape and extort ordinary Exnn Indian city rounds up beggars ahead of visit by Ivanka Trump
Speculation is always a dicey game for those of us in the Fourt stanley travel mug h E stanley kubek state, particularly when it comes to congressional retirements. One lawmaker who was rumored to be joining the roster of recent GOP retirements issued a press release Monday to end chatter that he s stepping down. Had any reporter bothered at any time to ask, I would have told them quite simply that at this time, I fully expect to be a candidate for re-election in 2008, New York Rep. John M. McHugh said in the release. I have never told anyone otherwise and I have never at any time told anyone I was thinking of retiring and, as the Washington Post put it, lsquo;wanting to go home.rsquo; The rumor-mill on Capitol Hill had the New York Republican calling it quits at the conclusion of his eighth-term in the House, joining a group of fellow moderates who have grown weary of the travel stanley taza , the partisanship and the grind of tough reelectionfight every two years. But not so, the veteran Republican said. My campaign is going forward on those matters necessary to wage another successful effort and when the time comes, we will be ready, McHugh said. Although, it s worth noting that at this time, fully expect and going forward often amount to weasel words that give lawmakers some wiggle room to change their minds. I m just saying... ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c84fc182-8c88-11e2- |
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