These Are Children, Not Bad Hombres
"Smuggling
fees will escalate. When that happens, smugglers often collect half in
the home country and require children to work off the other half as
indentured servants. Experts expect to see more cases like the one in
2014, when federal agents rescued eight Guatemalan teenagers from a
trailer park in Ohio, where they’d been held captive by smugglers and
forced to work at an egg farm.
Children
will be afraid to admit they have parents here, as they were in the
late 1990s and early 2000s, when the government often told parents to
retrieve apprehended children, only to deport the whole family when they
showed up. As a result children languished in detention centers.
Eighteen years ago, I spent a week in a jail in Liberty, Tex., where
unaccompanied children who had been kept there for months had tried to
slit their wrists or hang themselves..
Why would immigrants — parents and children — take these risks? El
Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have among the highest homicide rates
in the world. Boys are forced to join gangs; girls are forced to sleep
with gangsters"
posted by Ricky at 18:55
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