The International Development Committee says it is concerned that vulnerable children living alone may fall prey to people traffickers. Naomi Grimley reports.
Across the Atlantic, Donald Trump was elected on a wave of xenophobia against the imagined criminal gangs, drug dealers, and human traffickers supposedly pouring across the border with Mexico.
A former Mexican law enforcement official once in charge of his country's fight against drug traffickers was convicted on Tuesday on US charges that he took millions of dollars in bribes from the infamous Sinaloa cartel.
Guatemala's foreign minister has blamed human traffickers attempting to smuggle people illegally into the United States for the deaths of at least forty, mostly Guatemalan migrants, in a fire at a detention centre in Mexico.