REUTERS: IMMIGRANTS COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS TO FULFILL A DREAM

Carlos Roa celebrated this summer when the Obama administration announced a new program to defer deportation for young undocumented immigrants. But two months into the program, the 25-year-old activist has yet to apply. Roa, whose parents brought him here from Venezuela when he was two, is facing many of the same worries and complications as thousands of the other young …

LA TIMES: UNACCOMPANIED MIGRANT YOUTH IN U.S. DETENTION CENTERS RISES 50%

Gang violence in Central America has led to a startling increase in the number of children who make the dangerous journey across the Mexican border alone in search of asylum in the United States, according to a report by the Women’s Refugee Commission, a nonprofit that advocates for displaced women and children. The number of unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. …