The White House announced on Tuesday its plan to build a refugee processing in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to discourage children from Latin America to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

According to the announcement, which was included in a memorandum sent to U.S. State Secretary John Kerry, about 70,000 refugees will be admitted into the United States for the fiscal year 2015 had humanitarian justification.

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The issue of thousands of unaccompanied children from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala who showed unaccompanied in Texas had been a crisis that U.S. President Barack Obama has been trying to contain over the summer.

Several members of the Congress have suggested to establish a refugee processing, a move that was only announced on Tuesday.

According to some U.S. lawmakers, the establishment of application programs for refugees will solve the problem of border crossings from the three Central American countries.

In a statement released by the White House, the 70,000 refugees will be distributed among other refugees who were justified by humanitarian concern.

In addition, 4,000 refugees out of the 70,000 will come from the Caribbean and Latin America, while 2,000 slots have not been assigned to a specific region.

The memorandum that also contains the announcement also stated the U.S. State Department was authorized to take in 2,000 refugees from the Baltics, Eastern Europe, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cuba, Honduras and Iraq.

The memorandum implied that the White House plans to build an "in-country" refugee processing in Guatelama, El Salvador and Honduras, according to a White House spokesperson.

Under the program, the children who are still residing in those countries can be taken by their qualified relatives residing in the U.S. upon the relatives' request for U.S. resettlement.

According to the White House official, the program aims to provide a "safe, orderly and legal alternative" to the potentially life-threatening way that children cross the borders to join their relatives in the U.S.

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