Future Socialist Democrats. :-)

This story flew under the radar, swamped by the Gruber videos earlier this week. As far as an adjunct to the president's coming executive orders on immigration, it makes perfect sense.

At a conference in Central America, Vice President Joe Biden announced that the US would offer refugee status to migrant children from Honduras, El Salvadore, and Guatemala.

The U.S. government will launch a program in December to grant refugee status to some people under the age of 21 who live in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and whose parents legally reside in the United States.

U.S. officials say parents can ask authorities free of charge for refugee status for their children in the Central American countries, which are plagued by poverty and vicious gang violence. The program does not apply to minors who have arrived in the U.S. illegally.

Vice President Joe Biden announced the program Friday at the Inter-American Development Bank, where the presidents of the three Central American countries will present a plan to stem child migration from their countries.

U.S. officials said that children deemed refugees will be able to work immediately upon arrival in the U.S., opt for permanent residency the following year and for naturalization five years later. They did not say how long the process of receiving refugee status will take.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/11/biden_announces_us_will_grant_refugee_status_to_migrant_children.html#ixzz3JMdvt8za