{"id":9863,"date":"2014-06-27T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=9863"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:23:39","slug":"palmer-pardee-school-immigrant-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2014\/06\/27\/palmer-pardee-school-immigrant-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Palmer on Undocumented Immigrant Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/academics\/faculty\/faculty-emeriti\/palmer\/\"><\/a><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/07\/BrgdJJVIcAAsu5H.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/07\/BrgdJJVIcAAsu5H.jpg\" alt=\"David Scott Palmer\" width=\"376\" height=\"151\" class=\"wp-image-9864 alignright\" style=\"border: 5px solid black;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/david-scott-palmer\/\">Professor Emeritus David Scott Palmer<\/a> was quoted in a news story in <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/news\/2014\/06\/27\/undocumented-immigrant-children-spurred-by-reuniting-with-families-not-just\/\">FoxNews Latino<\/a> on the surge in undocumented and unaccompanied immigrant children from Latin America crossing into the United States (27 June, 2014).\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/news\/2014\/06\/27\/undocumented-immigrant-children-spurred-by-reuniting-with-families-not-just\/\">news story<\/a> looked at the causes and consequences of this recent surge in undocumented immigrant children.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Palmer, the Founding Director of the Boston University\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/about\/\">Latin American Studies Program<\/a>, now\u00a0part of the Pardee School of Global Studies was quoted in the story explaing how and why the process unfolds:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Because of the action, or inaction, taken by the Administration &#8216;word is&#8217; back in the region, &#8216;kids have a free pass&#8217;,&#8221; David Scott Palmer, director of Latin American Studies at Boston University, told Fox News Friday. &#8220;It&#8217;s become a virtual avalanche of kids and that reinforces the process. Rumors get back and with social media &#8216;word&#8217; is out instantly. Our response, the humanitarian response, is to find somewhere to put them and that in many cases is better than what they have at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emeritus David Scott Palmer quoted in FoxNews Latino on the surge in undocumented and unaccompanied immigrant children from Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9961],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9863"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13074,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863\/revisions\/13074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}