As Laura crossed over into Mexico, she turned to the border patrol officer supervising her deportation. “When I am found dead,” she told him, ”it will be on your conscience.”http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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Afraid for her life, she went north. At the U.S. border, she told officials about her brother’s murder but was deported nevertheless. A few days later, her youngest daughter found her body in front of the house, riddled with bullets.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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After Trump’s inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security created an office for the victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, called VOICE—Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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The office is compiling an online database to track “illegal alien perpetrators of crime.” (Data show that undocumented immigrants actually commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens.)http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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There is, however, no White House initiative to track a more sprawling set of legal violations involving immigrants—violations such as those above, for which the U.S. government is often culpable.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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Read our full story about the immigrants deported from the United States to death and violence.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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Should I get out my violin? Now the gang wants her dead? First he ex and now the gang? Let me guess, she HAD TO escape to CA again? She had no choice. Or maybe the other choices didn’t involve food stamps and other freebies.
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