That leaves it up to Mr. Obama and Mr. Johnson, who will need to do more. Mr. Obama’s plan to shield millions of immigrants from deportation through executive action was rebuffed last month by the Supreme Court. These migrants are refugees, but persuading a court to let them stay requires legal counsel, and relatively few have lawyers. Their numbers at the Southwestern border rose alarmingly in 2014, fell somewhat last year and are rising again. They are families and young children, many traveling alone, who have tried to escape Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, the hemisphere’s murder capitals.

Source: New York Times July 04, 2016 07:21 UTC