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TexasTowelie

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Wed Aug 20, 2014, 06:19 PM Aug 2014

At Least Five Children Deported Back to Honduras Have Been Killed

Despite reports showing violence in their home countries is a key factor to the flight of minors to the United States, many lawmakers are calling for swift court cases and deportation.

The first plane of deported children and mothers was sent back to Honduras last month. At least five of the children deported to Honduras have since been killed in the violence they attempted to escape, the L.A. Times reports

Hector Hernandez runs the morgue is San Pedro Sula, where the deportees arrive. He told the L.A. Times:

There are many youngsters who only three days after they've been deported are killed, shot by a firearm. They return just to die.

The L.A. Times piece continues,

In one case, a teenage boy was shot to death hours after arriving in San Pedro Sula on a deportation flight, according to the boy's cousin, who refused to identify himself or the boy to The Times for fear of reprisal from neighborhood gangs.


Read more: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15595/at-least-five-children-deported-back-to-honduras-have-been-killed
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