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title: "DHS: Violence, poverty, is driving children to flee Central America to U.S."
date: "2014-07-01"
authors:
  - name: "Michael Suh"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2014/07/01/dhs-violence-poverty-is-driving-children-to-flee-central-america-to-u-s/"
---

# DHS: Violence, poverty, is driving children to flee Central America to U.S.