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International adoption from Guatemala increased fourfold from 731 in 1996 to 3289 in 2002, when Guatemala ratified the Hague Adoption Convention in response to widespread reports of corruption and coercion in the system. However, in late 2003 the ratification was overturned by the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, and adoptions resumed. They ...
More than 10,000 children have been deported from the U.S. and Mexico back to Guatemala. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has opened a new office in Guatemala City to help them.
Before Guatemala's adoption of the Hague Convention in 2007, child laundering was a widespread and notorious issue in Guatemala. The recruiters are called jaladoras or buscadoras , and often work with medical personnel who give them information about the locations of vulnerable women.
The Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee and Parole Program is a U.S. refugee and parole program established in November 2014 by the Obama administration. [1] It is a refugee protection and family reunification pathway on which several thousand families rely and for which tens of thousands more families are technically eligible. [2]
“The overall feeling is that, whether legal or not, everybody is scared,” she said. “Our clients are asking, ‘What if they stop me? I’m on probation.’
A C-17 plane with 80 Guatemalan migrants departs from Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas on Jan. 30, 2025. The Guatemalans were in the U.S. illegally and were repatriated to their country on a military ...
Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM) is a Guatemalan organization. It is a collaboration between two of Guatemala's longest standing human rights-based NGO, Grupo De Apoyo Mutuo and Haverford College Libraries. GAM itself was founded in 1984 during the internal armed conflict with a group of people looking for their missing loved ones.
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