Obama to Meet Three Central American Leaders on Migrating Children

President Barack Obama on Friday will prod three Central American presidents to help stem the migration of children from their countries to the U.S., while offering to address the systemic problems that drive children to flee in the first place, administration officials said.

The White House meeting with the presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is Mr. Obama's latest effort to try to take control of what has become an urgent humanitarian and political crisis. U.S. officials say that Central American leaders have been constructive but much more is...