Three months after he was deported, gunmen woke him from the bed where he slept with his young son. He tried to soothe the boy, saying, “Don’t worry, my love.” His body was found about forty miles away, filled with bullets.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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Rosaleda worked as a police officer in Comayagua, Honduras, until her investigation of a cousin’s murder revealed a high-ranking colleague’s involvement, which Rosaleda reported at the department: http://nyer.cm/472g14a pic.twitter.com/aMcU2eFYJQ
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Menacing phone calls began, followed by a drive-by shooting while she worked the overnight shift. In another attempt on her life, while she was on patrol, two of her colleagues were killed.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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Rosaleda decided to risk the journey north. When Rosaleda arrived in Texas, she was apprehended and deported without seeing a judge or a lawyer. She didn’t share details of her escape from Honduras, fearing it would further endanger her.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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Rosaleda eventually made it to New York, where she found pro-bono legal help. But, because of her earlier—and, her attorney argues, unlawful—deportation, she is now ineligible for asylum:http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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Yadira had come to California from La Lima, Honduras, in the early two-thousands, to escape an abusive boyfriend. In 2010, she was deported on a minor drug-possession charge.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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After Yadira returned to La Lima, her brother, who was confined to a wheelchair, was murdered by the Mara 18 gang. Yadira began speaking out publicly against the gang, and became a target.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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Good! That would be more unnecessary taxpayer money going to them and we’re sick of it!!
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