Posted on 06/16/2018 10:34:20 AM PDT by Mariner
Rubilia Sanchez knew she had to flee her hometown of Tecun Uman after gangs repeatedly threatened to rape and murder her.
So she took her four daughters and made the familiar, dangerous trek out of Guatemala, through Mexico and into the United States, where she requested asylum. After waiting for four years, she finally got a date to plead her case to U.S. officials: July 26.
But now, her already hazy future — and that of others fleeing gang violence in Latin America — has been thrust into greater uncertainty.
Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions ordered immigration judges to stop granting asylum to virtually all those claiming to be victims of domestic or gang violence, a move that could block tens of thousands of people from gaining permanent entry into the U.S.
The gang violence that has raged in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras grew partly from American streets. The most powerful gangs in Central America, MS-13 and 18th Street, were born in Los Angeles a generation ago during the height of the city’s gang wars.
As gang violence exploded in the U.S., authorities responded in the 1990s by deporting gang members en masse to Central America. Experts said the move heightened violence in those countries and prompted waves of terrorized residents to seek refuge in the United States.
Alex Sanchez, a former MS-13 gang member and the executive director of gang prevention and intervention organization Homies Unidos in L.A., said Sessions’ move essentially closes a door to victims of gangs that the U.S. government helped create through past policies.
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Just like the old, original policy before Obama.
We cannot take them all, even if we wanted to. And we don't.
Interesting this lawyer blaming the US for creating the problem because we deported criminals back to their home countries. That's a hoot.
Bringing
Bringing gang violence.
Why don’t they ever go SOUTH to Costa Rica / Panama?
If you ward off an assault successfully never tell a soul. Leave the bodies and flee.
Exactly. Plenty of Spanish-speaking countries. We have no obligation to take her.
I love the comments. They are all trashing the L. A. Times and applauding the judge!
Fix your own country.
there are 45 countries in the Americas and 194 countries in the world.
there are many places other than USA
Go home illegals - fix your own problems of corruption and violence.
There are MS-13 gangs all over the USA (Thank you, Democrats!). She'll probably be in more danger in the USA than in other countries. Why doesn't she go to Cuba?
Ya think? For starters, it is just a short hop, skip, and a jump away. And they speak the same language and share the same lazy culture.
But Central American gangs are respectable people, says Pelosi and the liberals.
They make no sense.
They favor policies that bring these gang members here.
Why didn’t she just stop in Mexico?
Besides illegals endangering real Americans, encouraging the good people among the invaders to come here weakens their home countries. Anyone with the grit to come here for positive reasons, and then be productive here, has the grit to help take back their own country if we deny them the easy way out.
But what ever you do, don’t call MS-13 animals.
“The gang violence that has raged in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras grew partly from American streets.”
Lie.
The hispanic gangs migrated here already full born. MS13 for example was the remnants of the commiescum guerilla forces from El Salvadore.
US does provide a growth medium through the rest of the illegal mass immigration population though. But the gangs came here with that mass illegal immigration.
Hispanic gang violence *is* born from and tied directly to the mass illegal immigration we’ve let our selves suffer.
End that. Send them all back. The gangs are broken and crime drops hard in many of our most plagued communities.
It is time for the Mexican government to crack down on their drug problem. Of course they won’t. The illegal drug business is a big part of their economy. It also lines the government pockets. Mexico has degenerated into a rotting s-hole which pushes their citizens into America through illegal border crossings.
And this is our problem?
I don’t think so.
Liberals say America has a horrific rape culture, horribly oppresses people of color, especially women of color. That we have a land flooded with guns and violence, we can’t even keep children safe in schools.
If this is true, then “domestic violence” and fear of gang violence isn’t a valid basis for asylum, because we’re the worst in the world according to liberals.
Liberals either have to admit we have a moral obligation to take in all these would-be refugees because we’re better than where they fled or they have to admit we are bad so there’s no point in taking in more people we can’t take care of.
You can’t act as if both beliefs are true.
And that is just in Chicago.
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