Though it has been seen that Central American children are not coming across the US southern border as they used to but still the crisis is not over entirely.

Up to this point in this year a stability has occurred in the number of migrants coming across the border. While many of the children who came last summer are still in the country, going through the U S court systems, the rate of new entrants into the country has slowed down significantly. At the same time last year around 21,400 unaccompanied Central American kids had entered the United States and by the end of the year, around 70,000 children had come, putting great pressure on the US Border Patrol and the Health and Human Services Department, and all these children had to be placed in temporary housing so that they could be screened for refugee status. This year the numbers are down by 42 per cent. Only 12,509 children have been apprehended so far.

Though children from Central America are not making it to the United States at the same rate the push factors that drove the crisis in the summer gone by show no sign of coming down. Gang violence and murder rates remain high in Central America, especially in El Salvador and Honduras. The family ties and economic opportunities that have attracted migrants to the United States for years still act as magnet pullers.