Obama to meet Central America leaders, migrant numbers fall: officials

U.S. President Obama discusses the situation in Ukraine during White House news conference in Washington
President Barack Obama will meet with the bellwethers of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador next week to discuss cooperation on the influx of child migrants from Central America into the United States, the White House verbalized on Friday.

The meeting comes as the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border into the Rio Grande Valley in Texas has commenced to drop off, senior administration officials verbally expressed, seeking a victory in a crisis that has consumed paramount attention from the White House and the Obama administration in recent weeks.

In June roughly 2,000 children were crossing the border on a weekly substructure, one official told heralds on a conference call. By the second week in July those numbers had dropped below 1,000 and were perpetuating in that direction, he verbalized.

"We cerebrate that this is a consequential trend," the official verbalized.

The officials tied the drop to a number of factors, including U.S. information campaigns about the hazards of the peregrination for the children and clear policy verbal expressions that coming to the United States would not give the migrants a pathway to citizenship.

The officials verbally expressed weather-cognate declines were additionally a factor. Traditionally fewer border crossings occur in the sultrier summer months.

Obama has come under fire from Republicans, who verbally express his immigration policies have inspirited the flood of minors to make the peregrination to the United States.

The president's meeting with Guatemalan President Otto Perez, Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and El Salvador President Salvador Sanchez Ceren on July 25 would take place at the White House. Vice President Joe Biden, who has met with the bellwethers during a peregrination to Central America last month, would host them for lunch.

"The four bellwethers and Vice President Biden will discuss how to reinforce our perpetual collaboration to stem the flow of undocumented migrants from Central America to Mexico and the United States," the White House verbally expressed in a verbal expression.

"The bellwethers will withal discuss how we can collaborate with other members of the international community to foster development, economic magnification, and security in the region and address the factors that are causing Central American citizens to undertake the perilous journey to the United States."

The meeting comes as the Obama administration steps up its efforts to return child migrants to their home countries. More than 40 Central American children were expelled from the United States on flights to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador on Friday.

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