US and Mexico collude to send innocent kids to their deaths

US and Mexico collude to send innocent kids to their deaths

Refugees deserving protection are being deported back to countries where gangs want to kill them. This is wrong, hypocritical and shameful

By Nicholas Kristof
Published: 18:34 July 18, 2016

Elena was 11 years old when a gang member in her home country, Honduras, told her to be his girlfriend.

“I had to say yes,” Elena, now 14, explained. “If I had said no, they would have killed my entire family.”

Elena knew the risks because one of her friends, Jenesis, was also asked to be a gang member’s girlfriend, and declined. Elena happened to see the aftermath, as Jenesis staggered naked and bleeding away from gang members.

“She had been raped and shot in the stomach,” Elena recalled in the blank tone of a child who has seen far too much. She paused and then added: “We don’t know if she survived. Someone said she died at the hospital.”

More:
http://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/us-and-mexico-collude-to-send-innocent-kids-to-their-deaths-1.1864704

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