'A death sentence': migrant caravan member killed in Honduras after US sent him back
Source: Guardian
Fleeing threats, Nelson Espinal traveled to the US. One week after he was deported, he was shot dead
Several days after Nelson Espinal slipped across the US southern border, he called his family back in Honduras from inside a US detention center.
“Tell Mom not to worry – I’m applying for asylum,” Espinal, 28, told his sister Patricia, who recounted the December phone call with tears streaming down her sun-scarred cheeks. “We must pray to God that they give it to me. I told them I can’t go back to Honduras because if I go back, they’re going to kill me.”
Espinal had made the 4,900km journey with several thousand others who joined the migrant caravan in October in the hopes of starting a new life.
Within weeks of reaching the US, however, he was deported back to his gang-infested neighborhood in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa – and the death threats that had prompted him to flee.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/nelson-espinal-death-deported-migrant-caravan-us-border-honduras
Asylum applications are true. Plus, the refugees are not only about women and children, it is about the men as well.
Tragic. RIP.
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The posted article mentions it at the top. They knew what he was trying to escape, yet clearly they couldn't have cared less. He wasn't white enough? So he dies? Would they have done this to one of Hump's favored Norwegian refugees?
Nelson Espinal, only lived to 28 before the US fed him right into the tree shredder.
He had no where to go but right back to his house, which also became the funeral home, holding his casket:
Rest in the peace, Nelson Espinal, which was denied you in "life."
