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Thousands deported to Central America after fleeing gangs
Andrew Selsky, Associated Press
Updated 1:07 pm CDT, Tuesday, July 3, 2018
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Why did she do it? Why did she travel more than a thousand miles by bus and then ford the Rio Grande with a small band of desperate voyagers? Why did she endure the arid Texas landscape, with nothing but her common-law husband's black cap to shield her from the sun?
It was simple, the woman said.
She had already lost two children in the gang-ridden horror that is El Salvador. Her fear, she said, was that the killers "wanted to wipe out the whole family."
So the couple set out for the United States on May 13, hoping to reach Houston and her only surviving child, who had slipped across the U.S. border a year ago.
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https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Having-being-deported-to-Central-America-after-13045542.php
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Thanks for the thread Judi Lynn
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