IMMIGRATION: Isabel Ruiz, right, receives a U.S. flag from Supervisory Immigration Services Officer James Fobert after she passed her citizenship interview in Newark, N.J., on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. Ruiz, a native of Honduras who has been living in the United States for 25 years, said she has been working hard to get naturalized before the 2016 presidential election because she wants her vote to count. She fears she will lose her legal status in the U.S. if a candidate like Donald Trump takes office. A school bus driver, she studied for the civics portion of her citizenship test daily during her free time, sometimes while waiting for students to get out of class, but often at home in the evenings. She attended a weekly class at her local library to be quizzed by volunteering high school students. "I want to become a citizen because I love living in this country and I wanted to give my vote for better conditions for the Hispanic people... Everybody comes here for a good life for their family, to pay taxes and work hard. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Estados Unidos anunció el martes medidas que buscan ayudar a centroamericanos a gestionar asilo.
Las autoridades estadounidenses ampliarán sus recursos para verificar las solicitudes de asilo provenientes de Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador y comenzarán a admitir acompañantes adultos de los menores refugiados.
Amy Pope, asesora presidencial para seguridad nacional, dijo que Costa Rica comenzará a brindar refugio a hasta 500 solicitantes de asilo en alto riesgo.
Alejandro Mayorkas, subsecretario de Seguridad Nacional, dijo que durante los últimos nueve meses su despacho ha recibido 9 mil 500 solicitudes de menores centroamericanos que viven en sus países y cuyos padres residen legalmente en Estados Unidos.
Mayorkas agregó que han sido aprobadas 2 mil 884 y que al menos 600 de los solicitantes se encuentran ya en territorio estadounidense.
La iniciativa busca contrarrestar el flujo de decenas de miles de centroamericanos que han llegado desde 2014 a la frontera estadounidense sin la debida documentación.
