Gov’t program would fly in Central American children to join parents in US By Peter Doocy  April 04, 2015  FoxNews.com

 

 

 

 

Images of unaccompanied children flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border defined the immigration crisis last summer.Now, the federal government is intervening so these children won’t have to make that trek -– they’ll get to fly into the U.S. instead. For free A new State Department and Department of Homeland Security program seeks to stop the surge of immigrant children from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador at the southern border by giving their U.S.-based parents the option to apply to have their kids picked up and put on a plane, without paying a penny.The parents are eligible as long as they have some sort of legal status. As first reported in The Daily Caller, this would include permanent residents and even illegal immigrants given a work permit and deportation reprieve under President Obama’s recent executive actions, though much of that is on hold due to a pending court case. Of them, those with children under 21 and living in El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras reportedly could apply.

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