Stop US funding for Mexico's deportations of Central American refugees

I am a human rights lawyer who represents immigrant and refugee children. Following last year's "surge" in families and children seeking refuge in the U.S., the Obama Administration increased funding to Mexico to step up arrests and summary deportations of Central American refugees so as to prevent them from reaching the United States. As the New York Times and the Guardian have recently reported, Mexico is carrying out these deportations in wholesale disregard of its obligation under international law not to return persons to countries in which their lives are at risk. The United States must stop funding Mexico's deportation program until reputable international bodies determine that Mexico is complying with its obligation to provide asylum to those fleeing horrendous violence.