HondurasUnaccompanied minors and a family stand next to Honduran border policemen after being detained for the lack of identity documents at a porous border known as La Montanita in the small village of Suyapa, on the border of Honduras with Guatemala, June 20, 2014.
Thousands of young people each year are hoping to reach the U.S. from their impoverished and violent homes in Central America.
In the eight months ending on June 15, the U.S. had detained about 52,000 children at the Mexican border, double the figure the year earlier. Credit: Jorge Cabrera/Reuters
