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More funding promised to Central American child refugees, Lee warns of new influx

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A group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Texas.
Eric Gay via the Associated Press

Thousands of Central American children fleeing drug wars and poverty are overwhelming the San Francisco nonprofits who care for them, but new information from the mayor shows this may just be the beginning.

Yesterday, just hours before Supervisor David Campos' resolution to bolster funding to aid the incoming refugees passed, Mayor Ed Lee warned the Guardian and other journalists that San Francisco is bracing for another influx of even more children in need.Read more »


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