Only 30 Percent of Aliens Admitted Under Obama “Minors” Program Are Minors

Only 30 Percent of Aliens Admitted Under Obama “Minors” Program Are Minors
"Only 480 (or 30 percent) of the 1,600 aliens who have traveled to the United States under the Obama administration’s Central American Minors (CAM) program are actually minors — that is, under the age of 18.
...The report from State also noted that, so far, more than 10,600 Central Americans from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador have applied for refugee status or humanitarian parole under the CAM program.

...When it was first created, the stated goal of CAM was bring Central American minors safely to their parents in the United States. 

This was sold as a humanitarian measure, designed to eliminate the need for these minors to make the long, dangerous trek all the way through Mexico to the U.S. border. 

However, noted CIS, the expansion of the program created an entirely new situation:

In other words, individuals from El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras who made it to the U.S. — illegally for the most part — can now have their extended family members flown to them with U.S. taxpayers’ money. And those on the other side, who considered crossing here illegally, could be spared the trouble and given legal status. This seems to be this administration's idea of enforcing immigration laws.

The MRCTV report, citing an e-mail from the State Department, noted that more than 10,600 Central Americans from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador have applied for refugee status or humanitarian parole under the CAM program, to date. 

If the current ratio of adults-to-children continues, 7,400 of those will be adults and not minors, for whom the program was originally created.