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  • Sobeida.<br />
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Sobeida lives in a notorious neighbourhood of Catacamas, Olancho. Her son Ronald decided to migrate to escape the violence. Men were trying to kill him. His family got him out of Catacamas by using decoys to distract the men that were waiting for him at both ends of his street.<br />
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During his journey up to the US, he lived numerous adventures, and was well liked for helping others on the journey up to the US, including saving others’ lives. Helping someone else escape from a criminal group he broke his ankle.<br />
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After months of detention in the US, when he was deported, he came back to Olancho and became the coordinator of the LWF program of young returned migrants in Olancho. <br />
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Shortly afterwards, Ronal Leonardo Rojas Castro was shot dead in Olancho by unknown assailants.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Sobeida.<br />
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Sobeida is given a hug by her granddaughter, the daughter of her son Ronal. Sobeida lives in a notorious neighbourhood of Catacamas, Olancho. Her son Ronald decided to migrate to escape the violence. Men were trying to kill him. His family got him out of Catacamas by using decoys to distract the men that were waiting for him at both ends of his street.<br />
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During his journey up to the US, he lived numerous adventures, and was well liked for helping others on the journey up to the US, including saving others’ lives. One time, helping someone else escape from a criminal group he broke his ankle.<br />
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After months of detention in the US, when he was deported, he came back to Olancho and became the coordinator of the LWF program of young returned migrants in Olancho. <br />
<br />
Shortly afterwards, Ronal Leonardo Rojas Castro was shot dead in Olancho by unknown assailants.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Rolando Herrera <br />
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My father was a police officer. He died in 2010, he was killed.<br />
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In that time Olancho was in a difficult situation. Drug trafficking had grown a lot, the authorities didn’t do anything, there was no other authority. We would walk through Juticalpa and see the traffickers controlling everything in the street. One time I saw a crowd of people and could hear people shouting, as I approached I could see that they were burning some people alive in the street, they poured petrol on them and set them on fire, in front of all the people. I don’t know what it was about. That sort of thing would happen.<br />
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Girls and women couldn’t go out, they didn’t dare to go out, so they had to close some schools, no one wanted to go to school. If a trafficker wanted a girl, he’d just take her on the street, drive her away, she might never be seen again. <br />
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To get to work, I bought a motorbike on credit, and one day the traffickers stopped me on the street, at gunpoint, and took the bike. I never saw it again, but had to carry on paying the quotas for the loan, even though I didn’t have the bike.<br />
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Most of the houses in my neighbourhood had two or three kids, we used to play on the street. Within a few years, no one played outside, and all the kids, absolutely all of the kids, became migrants and went to the US. A few of them were killed, some in front of their house, before they could leave. It became a ghost town, many houses are abandoned, some in serious disrepair, some houses had their roofs and doors removed.  To go into the area you have to drive slowly with the windows down, and report to the trafficker guards, telling them who you were going to visit. If you drive fast or with the windows up, you’ll be shot.<br />
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So, I went to the US. I was there for a while. I made two trips, the first one failed, it went bad. I went with a people smuggler. We had a guide, and we met a group of the Zetas, they killed the guide in front of us, they cut his throat and decapi
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  • Fanny Ruiz, San Pedro Sula<br />
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Fanny’s son, Jorge Alexander, joined the migrant caravan, against her will, and got to the US border at Tijuana. One night, he was lured into a house with two other Honduran boys, Jorge Alexander and one other were tortured and killed, the third boy escaped. This follows months of hate speech in the media in Mexico and the US, against migrants, and the killings are being treated as hate crimes.<br />
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"My name is Fanny Ruiz. When I was four years old my father killed my mother. My father was sent to prison for a while. Then my brother was killed. My next brother was disappeared, we never saw him again. Then my third brother was killed. Of the six brothers and sisters that we were, just us three girls are alive now. <br />
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Thank God I'm still alive, to carry on looking after my children, but it's not great having to hide in your own country so that nothing happens to you. <br />
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All girls and women in this country are in a dangerous position, many of us are scared to go out in case we get followed and raped and killed.<br />
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I have shrapnel all over me, here in my forehead, in my back, my legs, my breasts. I was shot 13 times, they were trying to kill me. Thank God, I am still here, alive to look after my kids.<br />
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I have worked in lots of things to take care of my children: gardening, farming, building construction, flooring, cooking. I’m good with money, I work hard, I don’t have any vices, but that's not enough."<br />
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Fanny is pictured with two of her children in the cemetery, at the grave they prepared to bury Jorge Alexander while they were waiting for the repatriation of his body.
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  • Johnny Gustavo Romero López, 22, barber, Santa Cruz, Catacamas.<br />
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Johnny was orphaned, his mother died in an accident, his father was killed by criminals attempting to reach the US. He was left looking after his three brothers and sisters, one is in a wheelchair. <br />
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He got to the US, but was deported. He took part in the LWF training, and he got some equipment to set up his barber shop. He is still looking after his siblings.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_65...jpg
  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
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We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
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I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
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The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
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The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
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But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
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I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
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One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
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Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
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I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
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Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
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Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
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I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
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I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
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Isis (in pink):<br />
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I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
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Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • MS13 is painted on a street sign, showing presence of the Mara Salvatrucha gang in this area of Olancho. The gangs in this area are responsible for a lot of extorsion, threats and violence. Many migrants leaving Honduras cite extortion by gangs, or fear of their children being recruited into gangs, as reasons for leaving the country.
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  • Rubén Dario Martinez, 28, Santa Cruz, Catacamas, Olancho<br />
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I learnt to be a barber from nothing, I didn’t know anything about it, learnt it all from the LWF training, building up a clientele. It’s better than working as a security guard, like before. I’d earn less than half of the national minimum wage, and the work was all night, it was dangerous. I worked in a hotel, where all sorts of people go, if you know what I mean, this is a dangerous city. One time a client was drunk and wanted me to drink with him, I said no and he but the barrel of his gun in my face and forced me to drink.<br />
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I decided for reasons of security to try to get to the US. Also out of sheer poverty. When you’re on the bottom rung, it’s hard.<br />
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I went on my own, no smuggler, didn’t have the money to pay one. It was hard. Sometimes I didn’t eat. Sometimes I met people with children, sometimes I’d help them carry their kids, it’s hard to leave people behind struggling, it’s hard. Sometimes people tried to rob us. Sometimes people would insult me.<br />
I got to Mexico City. That’s where I was caught. I spent two weeks in prison in Mexico, it was full of Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadoreans. <br />
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No one likes to leave their family on their own. <br />
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Rubén looks after his younger brother who has Downs Syndrome.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Johny Gustavo Romero López, 22, barber, Santa Cruz, Catacamas.<br />
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Johnny was orphaned, his mother died in an accident, his father was killed by criminals attempting to reach the US. He was left looking after his three brothers and sisters, one is in a wheelchair. <br />
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He got to the US, but was deported. He took part in the LWF training, and he got some equipment to set up his barber shop. He is still looking after his siblings.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Johnny Gustavo Romero López, 22, barber, Santa Cruz, Catacamas.<br />
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Johnny was orphaned, his mother died in an accident, his father was killed by criminals attempting to reach the US. He was left looking after his three brothers and sisters, one is in a wheelchair. <br />
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He got to the US, but was deported. He took part in the LWF training, and he got some equipment to set up his barber shop. He is still looking after his siblings.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_63...jpg
  • José Graviel, 22, Jutiquiles<br />
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Some men wanted to rape my sister, so my mother went to the police to report them, then the men killed my mother. I was six. I don’t know my father, he’s been in prison for 17 years. I’ve been looking after my younger siblings since my mother died. I get afraid time to time, there’s still a lot of violence.  But the main reason I left was the economic situation here. Poverty. <br />
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I went on my own, no smuggler, I couldn’t afford to pay one. I was stopped by Mexican Migration, in Palenque, I was detained for three days and was sent back on a bus.<br />
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The LWF trained me as a barber, and bit by bit I’m building up clients, everyone round here comes for a haircut.<br />
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I have a girlfriend, but we can’t get married until we’ve prepared well, we want a place to live, we’re saving up. <br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Yelin Javier Matute Ramos, 22. (with Ruth Abigael, his girlfriend)<br />
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My father went with a smuggler to the US, but they had a fight.  My cousin was with them, he told us the story afterwards. They were in a cabin, but they left my dad outside. The smuggler tried to kill him by beating him, but he wouldn’t die, so he found a machete, cut his hand off, and killed him. Then he tied him to the back of a car and dragged his body around on the dirt road and dumped his body on the railway, so that they’d think he was killed by the train. His wife had to identify him, he was unrecognisable. They sent his body back. <br />
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Despite that, I decided to try my own luck and migrate.<br />
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My mother is in the US, I haven’t seen her for 12 years. <br />
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I decided to go last year. <br />
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A cartel stopped the lorry we were travelling in, they got us all out of the trailer. They told us all to get out all our money, or that they’d kill us. They put all the women separately.<br />
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They killed the driver of the lorry, and his assistant. They asked the lorry driver how many people he was carrying, he said 40, they told him to count us, there were 125 of us. They cut four fingers off his hand, one by one, and then they put a knife into his throat. I didn’t want to see it, but they did it in front of us. Then they did the same to his assistant, they cut off four fingers and pushed a knife into his throat. <br />
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They left us there on the side of the road. We were picked up by Mexican migration and seven days later we were back in Honduras. Everyone I went with went straight back, but I decided to stay. They’ve all got through to the US.<br />
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We got a bus fare to get back to Olancho, we got back with nothing.<br />
Someone told me about the LWF programme and I decided to learn welding, I have those skills now, for life, no one can take that from me. And I’m working in buildings, making furniture, and I have my own equipment.<br />
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LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
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Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
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Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
<br />
I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
<br />
I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
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Isis (in pink):<br />
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I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
<br />
Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_59...jpg
  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
<br />
Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
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Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
<br />
I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
<br />
I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
<br />
Isis (in pink):<br />
<br />
I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
<br />
Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_57...jpg
  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
<br />
Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
<br />
Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
<br />
I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
<br />
I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
<br />
Isis (in pink):<br />
<br />
I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
<br />
Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_56...jpg
  • Carlos Andrés Enriquez Hernández, 23, Tailor, Barrio La Soledad, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
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I was in four iceboxes in the US, about three days in each. The icebox is a room where they put you with very cold air conditioning, the aim of it is to freeze you, to make you more likely to sign the form so that they can send you straight home. It really is freezing, you are on the floor, there’s no bedding, you don’t have enough clothes, your teeth chatter and you feel like you are going to die.<br />
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I was deported after about 20 days. I met someone here in Juticalpa who told me about the LWF.<br />
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I left my place because of danger. What does danger mean? Ha! Danger here is not an abstract concept. My whole family was threatened by a gang. Threats against your life are part of controlling you, subjecting you. My whole family had to leave. People who don’t take notice of threats like that are simply killed. We’ve lost a lot of friends and neighbours, they disappeared. The gang here use a tourniquet on your neck, that’s their signature.<br />
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When I came back, I moved. I had nothing, lost everything. <br />
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The LWF helped me get back on my feet. I make school uniforms, I make adjustments to clothes, I make suits and rent them for weddings. I have dreams of getting bigger to start making clothes that people here want. I have no plan to go back to the US. <br />
<br />
With skills here, and a helping hand to get on your feet, and plenty of hard work, you can make it here, you can survive.<br />
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LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Carlos Andrés Enriquez Hernández, 23, Tailor, Barrio La Soledad, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
<br />
I was in four iceboxes in the US, about three days in each. The icebox is a room where they put you with very cold air conditioning, the aim of it is to freeze you, to make you more likely to sign the form so that they can send you straight home. It really is freezing, you are on the floor, there’s no bedding, you don’t have enough clothes, your teeth chatter and you feel like you are going to die.<br />
<br />
I was deported after about 20 days. I met someone here in Juticalpa who told me about the LWF.<br />
<br />
I left my place because of danger. What does danger mean? Ha! Danger here is not an abstract concept. My whole family was threatened by a gang. Threats against your life are part of controlling you, subjecting you. My whole family had to leave. People who don’t take notice of threats like that are simply killed. We’ve lost a lot of friends and neighbours, they disappeared. The gang here use a tourniquet on your neck, that’s their signature.<br />
<br />
When I came back, I moved. I had nothing, lost everything. <br />
<br />
The LWF helped me get back on my feet. I make school uniforms, I make adjustments to clothes, I make suits and rent them for weddings. I have dreams of getting bigger to start making clothes that people here want. I have no plan to go back to the US. <br />
<br />
With skills here, and a helping hand to get on your feet, and plenty of hard work, you can make it here, you can survive.<br />
<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190121_46...jpg
  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
<br />
We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
<br />
I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
<br />
The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
<br />
The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
<br />
But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
<br />
I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
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One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
<br />
I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
<br />
LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_59...jpg
  • Silvia Maria Alvarez Rosales<br />
Tenquiscapa<br />
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I have migrated to the US seven times. The last time was a very bad experience.<br />
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At the beginning it was fun, going through Mexico. But, as soon as I got across the river into the US, it was bad. It is dangerous, you can lose everything including your life.<br />
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My feet were tired, I’d been walking three days and nights, I had injuries on my feet, my socks were stuck to my feet, I couldn’t bear it any more. That night, we were walking through forest, there were thorns, the thorns would get stuck in my skin, scratch and injure me. We could see lights way off in the distance. It was evening time, I saw a woman who’d given birth, both the woman and the baby were dead. I got scared, the guide got hold of me and covered my mouth to stop me screaming. The smuggler wasn’t bad, he left me on a road where I’d get picked up by the migration. <br />
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Migration passed by a few times before picking me up. Eventually they woke me up, I could hardly stand up, they treated my wounds. I asked for political asylum, and I was left in prison for seven months before being deported. My family thought I was dead, there aren’t any international calls. When I got back here, I got off the bus, and my father saw me and he fell down on the ground and couldn’t stop crying. <br />
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The LWF has helped me set up my own salon, they’ve helped me a lot, to buy my equipment, they’ve given me training. Now I have a job, I have no need to leave again.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Yelin Javier Matute Ramos, 22. (with Ruth Abigael, his girlfriend)<br />
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My father went with a smuggler to the US, but they had a fight.  My cousin was with them, he told us the story afterwards. They were in a cabin, but they left my dad outside. The smuggler tried to kill him by beating him, but he wouldn’t die, so he found a machete, cut his hand off, and killed him. Then he tied him to the back of a car and dragged his body around on the dirt road and dumped his body on the railway, so that they’d think he was killed by the train. His wife had to identify him, he was unrecognisable. They sent his body back. <br />
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Despite that, I decided to try my own luck and migrate.<br />
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My mother is in the US, I haven’t seen her for 12 years. <br />
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I decided to go last year. <br />
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A cartel stopped the lorry we were travelling in, they got us all out of the trailer. They told us all to get out all our money, or that they’d kill us. They put all the women separately.<br />
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They killed the driver of the lorry, and his assistant. They asked the lorry driver how many people he was carrying, he said 40, they told him to count us, there were 125 of us. They cut four fingers off his hand, one by one, and then they put a knife into his throat. I didn’t want to see it, but they did it in front of us. Then they did the same to his assistant, they cut off four fingers and pushed a knife into his throat. <br />
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They left us there on the side of the road. We were picked up by Mexican migration and seven days later we were back in Honduras. Everyone I went with went straight back, but I decided to stay. They’ve all got through to the US.<br />
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We got a bus fare to get back to Olancho, we got back with nothing.<br />
Someone told me about the LWF programme and I decided to learn welding, I have those skills now, for life, no one can take that from me. And I’m working in buildings, making furniture, and I have my own equipment.<br />
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LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Cindy Yohanna Ruíz and Isis Escarlet.<br />
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Cindy (in blue):<br />
I’m a single mother with three children. I travelled, it’s a difficult journey, and you go with your heart in pieces, leaving your children behind, you don’t know if you are coming back, you go with your whole body but a lot of people come back missing an arm or a leg, there are several round here like that. And plenty of people die. But there’s no work here, there’s hunger, you can’t afford to send the kids to school. I’ve had one of my children sick, you can’t afford the medicine.<br />
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Thank God, I’m back, in one piece, and thank God, the LWF has helped us get ahead. Now I have the sales, I can afford the rent on a small place, and send the kids to school, and pay for medicine.<br />
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I left just out of poverty. We didn’t eat three meals a day, I didn’t have a place to live, I was sharing with my mother. <br />
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I got up to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. I was travelling a month. I was deported back to Aguas Calientes, the border with Honduras and Guatemala. I went alone, without a smuggler, without more than 500 Lempiras. <br />
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Isis (in pink):<br />
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I went on my own too, no leaving my mother and kids behind, it’s painful to leave. <br />
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Today, thanks to the LWF really, we’re making tortillas every day, morning and evening. And Saturdays we do chicken, roast chicken, we take it into town to sell, 50 Lempiras a portion, we do 30 portions. I make about 2,000 Lempiras a month with the tortillas. If you are humble, and I ask God for humility, and with hard work, you can survive.<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Carlos Andrés Enriquez Hernández, 23, Tailor, Barrio La Soledad, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
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I was in four iceboxes in the US, about three days in each. The icebox is a room where they put you with very cold air conditioning, the aim of it is to freeze you, to make you more likely to sign the form so that they can send you straight home. It really is freezing, you are on the floor, there’s no bedding, you don’t have enough clothes, your teeth chatter and you feel like you are going to die.<br />
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I was deported after about 20 days. I met someone here in Juticalpa who told me about the LWF.<br />
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I left my place because of danger. What does danger mean? Ha! Danger here is not an abstract concept. My whole family was threatened by a gang. Threats against your life are part of controlling you, subjecting you. My whole family had to leave. People who don’t take notice of threats like that are simply killed. We’ve lost a lot of friends and neighbours, they disappeared. The gang here use a tourniquet on your neck, that’s their signature.<br />
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When I came back, I moved. I had nothing, lost everything. <br />
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The LWF helped me get back on my feet. I make school uniforms, I make adjustments to clothes, I make suits and rent them for weddings. I have dreams of getting bigger to start making clothes that people here want. I have no plan to go back to the US. <br />
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With skills here, and a helping hand to get on your feet, and plenty of hard work, you can make it here, you can survive.<br />
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LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • José Graviel, 22, Jutiquiles<br />
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Some men wanted to rape my sister, so my mother went to the police to report them, then the men killed my mother. I was six. I don’t know my father, he’s been in prison for 17 years. I’ve been looking after my younger siblings since my mother died. I get afraid time to time, there’s still a lot of violence.  But the main reason I left was the economic situation here. Poverty. <br />
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I went on my own, no smuggler, I couldn’t afford to pay one. I was stopped by Mexican Migration, in Palenque, I was detained for three days and was sent back on a bus.<br />
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The LWF trained me as a barber, and bit by bit I’m building up clients, everyone round here comes for a haircut.<br />
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I have a girlfriend, but we can’t get married until we’ve prepared well, we want a place to live, we’re saving up. <br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Isaiah Alvarado Alvarado (señor)<br />
Digna Xiomara Flores Acosta (señora)<br />
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Llegamos a los estados unidos, fuimos como familia.<br />
Siempre fue difícil llegar allí a los estados unidos. Estuvimos ocho meses allí. Llegaron adonde estábamos habitando, los de la migra. Pero gracias a Dios aquí estamos.<br />
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Llegamos en avión<br />
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Habíamos ahorrado un poquito de dinero, así que este proyecto ha sido una bendición para nosotros. Para mi hija y para mi familia, mi esposa. Nos sentimos agradecidos con la ayuda que nos han brindado.<br />
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Es una bendición que estas ayudas nos han ayudado a nosotros y que sigan para otros que vienen también deportados.<br />
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 Siendo buenos administradores, trabajando, la ayuda sirve de mucho.<br />
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Hemos estado yendo a las reuniones en la oficina y en otros lugares. Hemos aprendido y nos sentimos alegres.<br />
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Con este apoyo nos hemos levantado, sentimos que hemos dejado la desesperación atrás,  que vamos a seguir adelante. <br />
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Viajar como familia para allá, no es normal, no es fácil. Fui yo con mi hija y con el coyote. Pasar por todo el país de México, y pasar por las fronteras, cruzar el río, todo es difícil.<br />
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Estuvimos en la casa del migrante, recuperando y esperando.<br />
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Este negocio, no es grande verdad, pero la gente viene a comprar, estamos abiertos a toda hora para vender cositas, necesidades, artículos de primera necesidad.
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  • Santos Filadelfo Padilla, 17<br />
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El programa es de apoyar a retornados. Yo llegué hasta la ciudad de México. De allí me deportaron. Yo iba en el autobús, y subieron, no eran policías sino de la migración. Otra gente les contaron a ellos quizás, y subieron. Me bajaron del bus, me llevaron a la garita, y allí me detuvieron. Dormí tres días allí. Y de allí me mandaron a la frontera con Mexico y Guatemala. Me tuvieron allí otros dos días. De allí me regresaron hasta aquí, a San Pedro Sula. Me llevaron al centro de retornados, para menores, hay un montón de camas allí en el Albergue Belén, allí estuve. <br />
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Eso fue hace un año en diciembre. Salí el día 13 de diciembre, ya el 14 iba por Guatemala. Se me quedan los detalles pegados. <br />
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Decidí irme por la pobreza. Uno sufre económicamente. No hay trabajos, no hay empleo. Y tengo bastantes amigos que si llegaron allí, en los estado unidos. Yo iba hacía Carolina del Norte, de mis amistades que están allí, allí están casi todos. Y hay otros en Texas.<br />
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Hay muchas historias de horror. Hay gente que les puede secuestrar o algo. Y hay gente que sufre en el camino porque no tiene que comer. No hay nadie tal vez que les aconseje antes de ir, y van a sufrir en el camino. <br />
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Aquí en Juticalpa tengo familia, soy de afuera, pero tengo familia aquí, y aquí me hablaron de la Federación, que estaban apoyando a migrantes retornados. <br />
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La ayuda consiste en capacitación para mecánica y soldadura. Y con herramientas. Voy a trabajar en mecánica pesada, camiones. Hacen las capacitaciones aquí cerca. <br />
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La vida de mi familia es bastante triste. Perdimos mi papá cuando tenía un año. Nos quitaron terrenos, la casa, quedamos sin nada. Cuando yo tenía siete salí de la escuela y empezé a trabajar, para ayudar a sostener mis hermanos. No teníamos nada.<br />
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Nos han enseñado como hacer el trabajo, cobrar, hacer inventarios. Pienso, con las herramientas que me van a dar, poner mi propio taller aquí en Juticalpa.<br />
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Sin es
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  • Isaiah Alvarado Alvarado (señor)<br />
Digna Xiomara Flores Acosta (señora)<br />
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Llegamos a los estados unidos, fuimos como familia.<br />
Siempre fue difícil llegar allí a los estados unidos. Estuvimos ocho meses allí. Llegaron adonde estábamos habitando, los de la migra. Pero gracias a Dios aquí estamos.<br />
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Llegamos en avión<br />
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Habíamos ahorrado un poquito de dinero, así que este proyecto ha sido una bendición para nosotros. Para mi hija y para mi familia, mi esposa. Nos sentimos agradecidos con la ayuda que nos han brindado.<br />
<br />
Es una bendición que estas ayudas nos han ayudado a nosotros y que sigan para otros que vienen también deportados.<br />
<br />
 Siendo buenos administradores, trabajando, la ayuda sirve de mucho.<br />
<br />
Hemos estado yendo a las reuniones en la oficina y en otros lugares. Hemos aprendido y nos sentimos alegres.<br />
<br />
Con este apoyo nos hemos levantado, sentimos que hemos dejado la desesperación atrás,  que vamos a seguir adelante. <br />
<br />
Viajar como familia para allá, no es normal, no es fácil. Fui yo con mi hija y con el coyote. Pasar por todo el país de México, y pasar por las fronteras, cruzar el río, todo es difícil.<br />
<br />
Estuvimos en la casa del migrante, recuperando y esperando.<br />
<br />
Este negocio, no es grande verdad, pero la gente viene a comprar, estamos abiertos a toda hora para vender cositas, necesidades, artículos de primera necesidad.
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  • Honduran migrants in a migrant caravan walked long distances early in the morning on their way to the border with Guatemala.
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  • A father carries his baby at the Aguas Calientes border post between Honduras and Guatemala. Behind him are several lines of police, riot police and army. Not far down the road is a military road block. No undocumented migrant was allowed out of Honduras or into Guatemala, and anyone with an arrest warrant on either side of the border was taken into custody. The process at the border was tense and took several hours, some small scuffles took place. Many migrants slept on the street.
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  • A Honduran bus driver taking migrants on the migrant caravan to the Guatemalan border. Guatemalan authorities said that 1700
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  • Honduran migrants in a migrant caravan hitched rides early in the morning on their way to the border with Guatemala.
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  • Early morning view over the  gang-controlled area of Chamelecón of San Pedro Sula, a hell hole where even the Police and Army are afraid to enter, where many have lost their homes, been abused, taxed, robbed and have perished, all  at the hands of gangs. This was the last sight of the city for another migrant caravan departing from the city. Migrants walked and hitchhiked on their way to the border points. Most went to Aguas Calientes in Ocotepeque, some went to El Florido in Copán. It was reported that nearly 1,700 Hondurans were registered at the border crossings in Guatemala, more than 300 of them were returned from the Honduras side because of deficiencies in the legality of their paperwork.
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  • Honduran migrants on a migrant caravan in January 2018 slept in the street as they waited to be let into Guatemala at the Aguas Calientes border post.
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  • Guatemalan police, backed up by riot police and army, held a firm line to stop the free movement of migrants into Guatemala at the Aguas Calientes border post.
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  • Hondurant migrants on a bus to the Guatemalan border
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  • Honduran migrants slept on the street as they waited for the chance to be let into Guatemala.
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  • Crowds of honduran migrants, stopped by a barrier of police and riot police, waited hours to get across the border into Guatemala.
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  • Honduran police and special forces keep a line of migrants under control, funneling them into an administrative area where their documents were checked. Anyone under 21 travelling without their parents or the legal permission of both their parents was returned by bus to San Pedro Sula.
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  • Honduran migrants were taken off a bus on the way to the Guatemalan border, men and women were separated, they were all counted and their effects searched.
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  • Honduran migrants on a bus to the Guatemalan border begin to crouch down to avoid detection by the police. This attempt was unsuccessful and everyone was taken off the bus.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of Cira Salinas, a migrant from Oaxaca, Mexico, who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where she sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona. Translating for the two is Sally Meisenhelder, a nurse from Las Cruces, new Mexico, who volunteers with No More Deaths, a group dedicated to saving the lives of migrants in the border area.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of Jairo Berieza, a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona. Berieza grew up in Arizona and lived there for 17 years before being detained and deported. In the background is Sally Meisenhelder, a nurse from Las Cruces, new Mexico, who volunteers at the center.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the injured arm of Alma Maldonado, a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where she sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Maldonado, from Veracruz, Mexico, was injured while walking at night through the desert. In the darkness she walked into a barbed wire fence, cutting her face and arms. It also caused her to fall and injure her arm and one foot. Unable to move very fast, she and her husband were apprehended the next day by the Border Patrol. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of Cira Salinas, a migrant from Oaxaca, Mexico, who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where she sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of Jairo Berieza, a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona. Berieza grew up in Arizona and lived there for 17 years before being detained and deported.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the injured arm of Alma Maldonado, a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where she sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Maldonado, from Veracruz, Mexico, was injured while walking at night through the desert. In the darkness she walked into a barbed wire fence, cutting her face and arms. It also caused her to fall and injure her arm and one foot. Unable to move very fast, she and her husband were apprehended the next day by the Border Patrol. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats wounds on the neck of Alma Maldonado, a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where she sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Maldonado, from Veracruz, Mexico, was injured while walking at night through the desert. In the darkness she walked into a barbed wire fence, cutting her face and arms. It also caused her to fall and injure her arm and one foot. Unable to move very fast, she and her husband were apprehended the next day by the Border Patrol. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of Cira Salinas, a migrant from Oaxaca, Mexico, who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where she sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the foot of Cira Salinas, a migrant from Oaxaca, Mexico, who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where she sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek. Gustafson is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona.
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  • Dawn Gustafson, from Vail, Arizona, treats the injured leg of a Mexican migrant who was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol in southern Arizona and deported back across the border to Nogales, Mexico, where he sought help from the Catholic-sponsored Kino Border Project. Gustafson volunteers at the Project's Comedor, where deported migrants receive food, clothing and medical care. Gustafson, a member of the Green Valley Samaritans, is a member of the Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Arizona. Much of the medical care provided in the center is to migrants' feet, which are often left blistered and wounded by the long and dangerous desert trek.
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  • Family members peer through gaps in the gate to see if their children have arrived at a centre for repatriated migrants in El Salvador. El Salvador receives several buses and planes full of deported migrants every day. Child migrant deportations from the US and Mexico to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are at a crisis level, where government provision to deal with the wave of repatriations is inadequate. In San Salvador, hundreds of children are repatriated daily.
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  • A bus full of children being repatriated to El Salvador arrives from Mexico at the Centre for Attention to Migrants in El Salvador as family members check to see if their child is on board. El Salvador receives several buses and planes full of deported migrants every day. Child migrant deportations from the US and Mexico to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are at a crisis level, where government provision to deal with the wave of repatriations is inadequate. In San Salvador, hundreds of children are repatriated daily.
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
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We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
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Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
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The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
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I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
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Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
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We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
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Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
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The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
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I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
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Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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  • Cindy Cruz Flores, 24. Tenpiscapa, Olancho.<br />
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I was deported.<br />
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I went because I couldn’t find any work, there’s nothing here. I’m single, I live at home, I have no children, but I have to help my parents. Even with a profession here, there’s no employment. Lots of people from round here decide to migrate, to find a better future. <br />
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Maybe it’s not as bad here as in some other areas, not many people are hungry, no one dies of hunger here. But, there’s scarcity, there are families who don’t get to eat three times a day. In Honduras the violence is terrible, generally. Catacamas is tough, it’s dangerous. Our particular neighbourhood isn’t too bad though.<br />
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My brother is in the US, he sent money for me to try to get there. He paid $3500, that’s gone.<br />
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I got to Houston, through Juarez, by the bridge. I was there for three months, detained. It was difficult there. I was punished, they sent me from place to place, the food was terrible, you don’t even see sunlight, you don’t know what time of the day it is. The ice boxes are the worst, you freeze. I couldn’t bear it. I signed the papers to be deported. There are lots of stories of people who take their own lives. It’s a bad feeling, terrible feeling there. <br />
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Among the staff in the detention centres, there are bad people, they enjoy making you suffer.<br />
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I was lucky on the journey, it wasn’t much suffering, but in detention it was bad. Some of the women I was with suffered a lot more on the journey, some had broken arms and legs, one had her face all disfigured, another was all cut and grazed, accidents on the train or getting over the wall, or traffic accidents. <br />
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Women travelling have extra risks. A lot of women are raped, or killed. <br />
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I did a course with the LWF, three months training, cutting hair and beauty salon work. I’ve learned to be less shy. I’m working in a salon now, cutting hair. I like doing that. I think in the future, God willing, and with the support of the LWF, I’ll set up m
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
<br />
We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
<br />
Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
<br />
The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
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I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
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Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
<br />
We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
<br />
Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
<br />
The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
<br />
I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
<br />
Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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  • Brenda Paola Molina López, 22, San Pedro Catacamas<br />
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I was in a private university. It was too expensive. I live with my mother, she’s a single mother, we couldn’t afford to carry on with the studies, I couldn’t find a job, there’s a lot of violence here, a lot. So, I decided to go to the US. <br />
<br />
We paid a smuggler, $4,000. <br />
<br />
Saying goodbye to my mum was hard, we’d never been apart before. You know it’s risky, you don’t know if you are going to come back, you are conscious of the risk, of being kidnapped, being raped, being killed. But, there’s nothing here. We don’t all have drinking water, sometimes there’s no water at all. There are people right here who don’t eat three meals a day, who can’t afford to send their kids to school, my neighbour here didn’t send their kids to school last year, couldn’t afford it. If you are lucky to get day work here, as a farm labourer, you might get 100 lempiras a day, maybe 90, depends, and it’s hard work. You can’t do much with 100 Lempiras ($4 USD). <br />
<br />
The truth is that you suffer on the journey, sometimes you walk all night, sometimes there’s not much food, you have to sleep on the floor, and it’s dangerous, you can be kidnapped, killed. They tried to sell one of the young women I was with, to sleep with men, you understand. I lost a lot of weight on the journey, I got really skinny, I didn’t get back to normal until after being in prison.<br />
<br />
I was deported twice, once from Mexico, once from the US. The first time I went I got to Mexico, I was deported back to San Pedro Sula, and then I just went straight back. I got to McAllen, Texas and was caught shortly after I got there. I was imprisoned for eight days and then deported. I didn’t have money to get a lawyer to fight my case, so I came back, I signed the form to be deported. I was in prison with Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, other Hondurans. I was 19. <br />
<br />
Thank God, the LWF has helped me a lot, from the first day I met them. With their help, we�
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  • Mario David Castellanos Murillo,12, "the Caravan Boy". <br />
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Mario's mother has a long-term mental illness, his father works long hours as a security guard and doesn't earn the minimum salary. Mario had been spending his time in the street instead of going to school, juggling for tips or selling chewing gum at traffic lights in San Pedro Sula. When the caravan left in October last year, Mario decided to join it. Mario's case was highlighted in some media who dubbed him The Caravan Boy.<br />
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"It's dangerous in the street, there are lots of kids in the street, some people take drugs, they smoke glue, sometimes kids disappear. So. I went on the caravan, on my own. I went walking sometimes, sometimes I jumped on lorries, trailers, sometimes I got lifts in little cars. At the border I went through running, with everyone else that was running, everyone was running. They caught me in Mexico, they were using the crying gas and a woman grabbed me and pulled me away, she took me to a clinic. Then they took my details, and took me to a children's home and flew me back to Honduras on an aeroplane. That was sort of okay. It was easy to escape from the place they put me. I got over the wall, I was in the mountains running. I hid in a tree for a while. Then I got back here, I'm living with my uncle [guardian]". <br />
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Mario's guardian says that Mario's case highlights the precarious social reality of many people living in families with very low incomes, or with mental health issues. He spoke at length about problems of poverty around the city of San Pedro Sula, the industrial capital of Honduras. If people are lucky, they have a job, but they work long hours and can't make ends meet. People have a right to escape terrible conditions if they can see a better alternative somewhere else, he says. Through CASM, he says, Mario has been able to start going to school.
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  • Ana Enamorada, a migrant rights activist from Honduras, takes notes as she talks with Raul Alexi Machado in the Jesus the Good Shepherd of the Poor and Migrant Shelter in Tapachula, Mexico. The shelter provides care for migrants who've been injured or fallen ill on their way north. Machado lost contact with his family in Honduras after he was injured in an automobile accident.<br />
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Enamorada came to Mexico as part of a caravan of 45 Central Americans, mostly mothers, looking for loved ones who had disappeared along the migrant route north or who had become victims of traffickers.
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  • Victor Alfonso Escobar Ramos, cocinero, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
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Por medio de la Federación, gracias a Dios, estamos bien ya.<br />
Yo fui a los estados unidos porque yo tengo familiares allá, en Miami en Florida. <br />
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Tenía mi mamá allá y quería verla, es bien difícil, yo le dije a ella que me quería ir y si me podía ayudar. Así fue cuando me fui la primera vez. Me fui con coyote, fue rápido. Yo lo tomé como una aventura, porque no sufrí en el camino. Sufrí solamente cuando iba cruzando el desierto, porque no hay casas, y son tres días de camino, tres días y tres noches caminando. Se ven muchas cosas allí. Malos olores. Gracias a Dios no me tropezé con ningún cadáver. Pero es bien difícil. Hay gente que sí muere en el intento. Es peligroso.<br />
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Luego me deportaron en 2016. Y me fui sin coyote, por cuenta propia. Sin guía uno tiene que ir preguntando para localizarse, para poder llegar.<br />
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Llegué hasta arriba de Tenosique, en México. Ibamos en un bus, de bus en bus y pagando pasajes. Pidieron papeles, nos bajaron, nos chequearon, entonces nos deportaron. Tuvimos que esperar que se llenara todo el bus para que pudiéramos venir, teníamos que esperar, detenidos. Estuve esperando unos diez días. Se llenó el bus y nos mandaron para Chiapas. Y de Chiapas nos fue a recoger un bus de Honduras. Llegamos a San Pedro. Nos bajaron, nos chequearon a ver si teníamos un record criminal, y me dieron boleto para venir a Olancho. <br />
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Gasté como 11,000 lempiras hasta donde llegué, y no llegué muy lejos. Se gasta bastante en el viaje. Vine sin dinero.<br />
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Tomé la decisión de irme porque no tenía empleo, no tenía apoyo, me tocaba hacer algo. Ya tengo 26 años y me da vergüenza estar pidiendo de mi madre en los estados unidos. Entonces decidí gastar mi dinerito en el viaje a ver si llegaba. <br />
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Mi hermano iba en un bus con alguien que conocía el programa de la Federación para deportados, y cuando vino me contó. <br />
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Nos han dado varias capacitaciones. Estoy haciendo cocina.
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  • Suany Castillo, 35, San Pedro Sula<br />
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"I used to work in textile factories, I was a machine operator, sewing on sleeves. Because my son got ill, I looked for help from a money lender. He lent me the money. Then he'd take all my salary, all of it. He charges 20% a week. I was earning 1,900 Lempiras, sometimes there'd be 80 Lempiras left over after paying the interest. I decided to resign from the job, because it wasn't enough to pay the interest and survive. They gave me 2,000 Lempiras, after working for years there, and I used it to start a small business making tortillas. But I'm a single mother, and the income wasn't enough to survive. When I heard about the caravan, I ran to join it. It was difficult, I was pregnant.<br />
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We went up to Ocotepeque and from there through Guatemala and into Mexico. In Tuxtla we were in a little group, separated from the main group. We were walking for hours and then two trucks with men with balaclavas cut across us, they were armed. It was a place in the mountains, no houses. They wanted us to get onto the trucks. Someone said they were Zetas. Some people died, I ran with my children. I lost my kids for three days, I told them to run to Tecún Umán (the border). They opened fire on us while we ran, some people were killed. I won't get over it. I was raped and later I had a miscarriage, I was carrying twins. My kids got away. We were all covered in cuts and scratches, the thorns in our legs, we ran through the bushes and around the edges of fields. Three days later, I was desperate, I was searching for my kids, then in Tapachula I found my children, they were okay. I didn't know if they were alive. You don't know, I can't say what it was like, seeing them again. <br />
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I turned myself in to the migration officials, I didn't want to carry on, they took us to the border. But, here I am again, alive, returning to live this poverty.<br />
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CASM [a Mennonite organisation] has helped me, they've helped me a lot.<br />
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The money lender wants the money, he wants
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  • Marcia Verónica Elvir Romero, 28, madre de cuatro hijos, y esperando el número cinco.<br />
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La idea era esa, llegar a los Estados Unidos. <br />
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Pero cuando íbamos por Mexico, y los Zetas estaban empezando a secuestrar las personas, mejor decidimos venir. Ya estábamos en México, trabajamos allí, para hacer el pasaje, y nos venimos.<br />
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Nos venimos el 22 de diciembre del año pasado, un año ya. Estuvimos allí más de un mes. <br />
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Cuando llegamos, alguien nos dijo del programa.<br />
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Yo ya tenía me salón de belleza. Le digo salón verdad, porque esta en mi salón de estar, aquí en mi casa. <br />
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Me han ayudado con capacitación, y con muebles, sillas, espejos, la mesa para manicure, la silla de manicure. <br />
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He ido a varias capacitaciones, hasta en Tegucigalpa. La semana pasada vino una técnica que contrataron para dar cursos de bellezas, me ha venido a visitar.<br />
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Ya voy a perder algunas reuniones porque ya me toca [dar la luz]. Me dieron reposo, y míreme, trabajando. <br />
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Me dijo la doctora que ya no hay problema que nazca el bebé.<br />
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En México yo no salía, me daba miedo que nos viera la migración o las bandas criminales como son los zetas, no quería que nos secuestraran, o que nos sacaran. La familia de mi esposo tiene un amigo allí que nos dieron donde quedar. Y yo trabajé en un salón de belleza, cortando pelo. Pero no salía, tenía mucho miedo. La verdad es que tuvimos mucha suerte que no nos pasó nada fuerte, como suele pasar.<br />
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Ahora, con el bebé que viene, y con estas capacitaciones y el apoyo de la Federación, siento esperanza, que todo va a salir bien aquí. No deja de ser una lucha, pero ya tenemos algo para ir trabajando.
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  • Marcia Verónica Elvir Romero, 28, madre de cuatro hijos, y esperando el número cinco.<br />
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La idea era esa, llegar a los Estados Unidos. <br />
<br />
Pero cuando íbamos por Mexico, y los Zetas estaban empezando a secuestrar las personas, mejor decidimos venir. Ya estábamos en México, trabajamos allí, para hacer el pasaje, y nos venimos.<br />
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Nos venimos el 22 de diciembre del año pasado, un año ya. Estuvimos allí más de un mes. <br />
<br />
Cuando llegamos, alguien nos dijo del programa.<br />
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Yo ya tenía me salón de belleza. Le digo salón verdad, porque esta en mi salón de estar, aquí en mi casa. <br />
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Me han ayudado con capacitación, y con muebles, sillas, espejos, la mesa para manicure, la silla de manicure. <br />
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He ido a varias capacitaciones, hasta en Tegucigalpa. La semana pasada vino una técnica que contrataron para dar cursos de bellezas, me ha venido a visitar.<br />
<br />
Ya voy a perder algunas reuniones porque ya me toca [dar la luz]. Me dieron reposo, y míreme, trabajando. <br />
<br />
Me dijo la doctora que ya no hay problema que nazca el bebé.<br />
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En México yo no salía, me daba miedo que nos viera la migración o las bandas criminales como son los zetas, no quería que nos secuestraran, o que nos sacaran. La familia de mi esposo tiene un amigo allí que nos dieron donde quedar. Y yo trabajé en un salón de belleza, cortando pelo. Pero no salía, tenía mucho miedo. La verdad es que tuvimos mucha suerte que no nos pasó nada fuerte, como suele pasar.<br />
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Ahora, con el bebé que viene, y con estas capacitaciones y el apoyo de la Federación, siento esperanza, que todo va a salir bien aquí. No deja de ser una lucha, pero ya tenemos algo para ir trabajando.
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  • Marcia Verónica Elvir Romero, 28, madre de cuatro hijos, y esperando el número cinco.<br />
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La idea era esa, llegar a los Estados Unidos. <br />
<br />
Pero cuando íbamos por Mexico, y los Zetas estaban empezando a secuestrar las personas, mejor decidimos venir. Ya estábamos en México, trabajamos allí, para hacer el pasaje, y nos venimos.<br />
<br />
Nos venimos el 22 de diciembre del año pasado, un año ya. Estuvimos allí más de un mes. <br />
<br />
Cuando llegamos, alguien nos dijo del programa.<br />
<br />
Yo ya tenía me salón de belleza. Le digo salón verdad, porque esta en mi salón de estar, aquí en mi casa. <br />
<br />
Me han ayudado con capacitación, y con muebles, sillas, espejos, la mesa para manicure, la silla de manicure. <br />
<br />
He ido a varias capacitaciones, hasta en Tegucigalpa. La semana pasada vino una técnica que contrataron para dar cursos de bellezas, me ha venido a visitar.<br />
<br />
Ya voy a perder algunas reuniones porque ya me toca [dar la luz]. Me dieron reposo, y míreme, trabajando. <br />
<br />
Me dijo la doctora que ya no hay problema que nazca el bebé.<br />
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En México yo no salía, me daba miedo que nos viera la migración o las bandas criminales como son los zetas, no quería que nos secuestraran, o que nos sacaran. La familia de mi esposo tiene un amigo allí que nos dieron donde quedar. Y yo trabajé en un salón de belleza, cortando pelo. Pero no salía, tenía mucho miedo. La verdad es que tuvimos mucha suerte que no nos pasó nada fuerte, como suele pasar.<br />
<br />
Ahora, con el bebé que viene, y con estas capacitaciones y el apoyo de la Federación, siento esperanza, que todo va a salir bien aquí. No deja de ser una lucha, pero ya tenemos algo para ir trabajando.
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  • Sergio René Almenares Euceda, Catacamas, Olancho<br />
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Me deportaron, hace siete meses. Fue triste. Dejé mi familia botada allí. Gracias a Dios hemos reunido ya, solamente quedó una hija allá.<br />
<br />
A mi me agarraron manejando, iba para mi trabajo, me paró la policía y me entregaron a migración. Vivía como a una milla de distancia de mi trabajo. Me tuvieron como un mes y de allí me mandaron para acá. De Ohio me bajaron a Louisiana, y de allí me mandaron en avión a San Pedro.<br />
<br />
Yo era constructor de techos allí. De la teja europea. <br />
<br />
Cuando vine no estaba bien, económicamente, pero tenía ganas de trabajar, y con la ayuda de los Luteranos vamos saliendo. Me han ayudado grandemente y doy gracias a Dios, y a ellos, por toda la ayuda que me han dado.<br />
<br />
Tuve la capacitación de soldadura y todo salió bien. Tuvimos buenos instructores,  y nos enseñaron bastante. Yo nunca había trabajado en soldadura antes. Me dieron todo el equipo necesario. <br />
<br />
Me dieron soldadura, compresor de aire, me dieron pistola, dobladora, electrodos, segueta, pulidora, taladro y rotulo para el negocio. Completo. No mas he estado comprando cositas que necesito, pero casi tengo todo lo que necesito. Como le digo, con las herramientas, y empezé a trabajar, para ir sacando para la comida. Ya estoy saliendo adelante.<br />
<br />
Ya no pienso salir para allá. No. El American Dream para mi se me hizo una pesadilla. Mucho sufrimiento en el viaje, y la forma que le ven a uno allí, no, no es humanitario, es de desprecio, odio, racismo. Dicen que uno llega a quitarles el trabajo. Pero uno llega a hacer los trabajos que ellos no quieren hacer. Y ahora con Trump es más estricto. Hay mucha gente que no ha hecho nada mal, y tal vez tienen 20 o 25 años viviendo allí, y tal vez ni conocen su país e origen, porque se fueron jóvenes, y viven con miedo todo el tiempo, vivir así es una pesadilla. Para mi se acabó el American Dream.<br />
<br />
He tenido muchas conversaciones con un psicólogo, con la ayuda de la Federación.
    Honduras_Hawkey_returned_migrants_20...jpg
  • Victor Alfonso Escobar Ramos, cocinero, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
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Por medio de la Federación, gracias a Dios, estamos bien ya.<br />
Yo fui a los estados unidos porque yo tengo familiares allá, en Miami en Florida. <br />
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Tenía mi mamá allá y quería verla, es bien difícil, yo le dije a ella que me quería ir y si me podía ayudar. Así fue cuando me fui la primera vez. Me fui con coyote, fue rápido. Yo lo tomé como una aventura, porque no sufrí en el camino. Sufrí solamente cuando iba cruzando el desierto, porque no hay casas, y son tres días de camino, tres días y tres noches caminando. Se ven muchas cosas allí. Malos olores. Gracias a Dios no me tropezé con ningún cadáver. Pero es bien difícil. Hay gente que sí muere en el intento. Es peligroso.<br />
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Luego me deportaron en 2016. Y me fui sin coyote, por cuenta propia. Sin guía uno tiene que ir preguntando para localizarse, para poder llegar.<br />
<br />
Llegué hasta arriba de Tenosique, en México. Ibamos en un bus, de bus en bus y pagando pasajes. Pidieron papeles, nos bajaron, nos chequearon, entonces nos deportaron. Tuvimos que esperar que se llenara todo el bus para que pudiéramos venir, teníamos que esperar, detenidos. Estuve esperando unos diez días. Se llenó el bus y nos mandaron para Chiapas. Y de Chiapas nos fue a recoger un bus de Honduras. Llegamos a San Pedro. Nos bajaron, nos chequearon a ver si teníamos un record criminal, y me dieron boleto para venir a Olancho. <br />
<br />
Gasté como 11,000 lempiras hasta donde llegué, y no llegué muy lejos. Se gasta bastante en el viaje. Vine sin dinero.<br />
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Tomé la decisión de irme porque no tenía empleo, no tenía apoyo, me tocaba hacer algo. Ya tengo 26 años y me da vergüenza estar pidiendo de mi madre en los estados unidos. Entonces decidí gastar mi dinerito en el viaje a ver si llegaba. <br />
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Mi hermano iba en un bus con alguien que conocía el programa de la Federación para deportados, y cuando vino me contó. <br />
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Nos han dado varias capacitaciones. Estoy haciendo cocina.
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  • Victor Alfonso Escobar Ramos, cocinero, Juticalpa, Olancho<br />
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Por medio de la Federación, gracias a Dios, estamos bien ya.<br />
Yo fui a los estados unidos porque yo tengo familiares allá, en Miami en Florida. <br />
<br />
Tenía mi mamá allá y quería verla, es bien difícil, yo le dije a ella que me quería ir y si me podía ayudar. Así fue cuando me fui la primera vez. Me fui con coyote, fue rápido. Yo lo tomé como una aventura, porque no sufrí en el camino. Sufrí solamente cuando iba cruzando el desierto, porque no hay casas, y son tres días de camino, tres días y tres noches caminando. Se ven muchas cosas allí. Malos olores. Gracias a Dios no me tropezé con ningún cadáver. Pero es bien difícil. Hay gente que sí muere en el intento. Es peligroso.<br />
<br />
Luego me deportaron en 2016. Y me fui sin coyote, por cuenta propia. Sin guía uno tiene que ir preguntando para localizarse, para poder llegar.<br />
<br />
Llegué hasta arriba de Tenosique, en México. Ibamos en un bus, de bus en bus y pagando pasajes. Pidieron papeles, nos bajaron, nos chequearon, entonces nos deportaron. Tuvimos que esperar que se llenara todo el bus para que pudiéramos venir, teníamos que esperar, detenidos. Estuve esperando unos diez días. Se llenó el bus y nos mandaron para Chiapas. Y de Chiapas nos fue a recoger un bus de Honduras. Llegamos a San Pedro. Nos bajaron, nos chequearon a ver si teníamos un record criminal, y me dieron boleto para venir a Olancho. <br />
<br />
Gasté como 11,000 lempiras hasta donde llegué, y no llegué muy lejos. Se gasta bastante en el viaje. Vine sin dinero.<br />
<br />
Tomé la decisión de irme porque no tenía empleo, no tenía apoyo, me tocaba hacer algo. Ya tengo 26 años y me da vergüenza estar pidiendo de mi madre en los estados unidos. Entonces decidí gastar mi dinerito en el viaje a ver si llegaba. <br />
<br />
Mi hermano iba en un bus con alguien que conocía el programa de la Federación para deportados, y cuando vino me contó. <br />
<br />
Nos han dado varias capacitaciones. Estoy haciendo cocina.
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  • A Mexican television reporter records a news report on International Migrants Day on December 18, 2013, as migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
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  • A Mexican television reporter records a news report on International Migrants Day on December 18, 2013, as migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
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  • Cocinera en Catacamas. Dina Escoba, 28 y Alan Mejía Verbinsky y su bebé Alejandra. <br />
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Fuimos deportados de la frontera Mexico y los Estados Unidos. Fue horrible, no queremos volver a pasar por eso, tenemos suerte de estar aquí contando la historia, gracias a Dios. Hemos tomado la decisión de no volver a intentar nunca. Miramos gente que cayó del tren, que fue llevada. A muchos los llevan y desaparecen, muchos son robados, violadas, golpeados, a muchos les piden un rescate, y allí esta todo perdido. Así es la vida allí. Desde que sale uno de la frontera de Honduras a Guatemala, ya a uno lo extorsionan, hasta la policía le quitan el dinero. Es difícil. <br />
<br />
Yo intenté una vez, mi esposo intentó varias veces. Viajamos por semanas, y cuando llegamos al río, ya para cruzar el río, nos agarró la migración, nos pusieron esposas y nos subieron a un camión y nos llevaron. Nos llevaron a Monterey, y nos pusieron en una cárcel, pero no una cárcel de migración, una cárcel normal, y estuvimos 23 días porque no se podía llenar un bus para mandarnos hasta DF para ver la gente de migración. Después nos mandaron para DF, y después para Tapachula, y de Tapachula para la frontera de Honduras con Guatemala. Fuimos tratados como criminales.<br />
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Al llegar aquí no teníamos nada. No teníamos trabajo, mi esposo conseguía trabajo un día sí un día no, así pasábamos, pero la mayoría del tiempo haciendo nada. Y, gracias a Dios, nos hablaron de la Federación, y nos visitaron, incluso no creíamos, de allí nos hablaron que fueramos a Juticalpa a la reunión, y fuimos y miramos que la cosa era en serio. Desde que nos involucramos nos hemos perdido una reunión. Y gracias a Dios estamos trabajando. El negocio de nosotros, que hemos levantado con el apoyo de la Federación, es golosinas. Vendemos tacos, baleadas, plátanos con carne, tajaditas con pollo, y, gracias a Dios, desde que empezamos, todo producto que preparamos se vende, se nos va todo. Empezó con solamente
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  • Marcia Verónica Elvir Romero, 28, madre de cuatro hijos, y esperando el número cinco.<br />
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La idea era esa, llegar a los Estados Unidos. <br />
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Pero cuando íbamos por Mexico, y los Zetas estaban empezando a secuestrar las personas, mejor decidimos venir. Ya estábamos en México, trabajamos allí, para hacer el pasaje, y nos venimos.<br />
<br />
Nos venimos el 22 de diciembre del año pasado, un año ya. Estuvimos allí más de un mes. <br />
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Cuando llegamos, alguien nos dijo del programa.<br />
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Yo ya tenía me salón de belleza. Le digo salón verdad, porque esta en mi salón de estar, aquí en mi casa. <br />
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Me han ayudado con capacitación, y con muebles, sillas, espejos, la mesa para manicure, la silla de manicure. <br />
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He ido a varias capacitaciones, hasta en Tegucigalpa. La semana pasada vino una técnica que contrataron para dar cursos de bellezas, me ha venido a visitar.<br />
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Ya voy a perder algunas reuniones porque ya me toca [dar la luz]. Me dieron reposo, y míreme, trabajando. <br />
<br />
Me dijo la doctora que ya no hay problema que nazca el bebé.<br />
<br />
En México yo no salía, me daba miedo que nos viera la migración o las bandas criminales como son los zetas, no quería que nos secuestraran, o que nos sacaran. La familia de mi esposo tiene un amigo allí que nos dieron donde quedar. Y yo trabajé en un salón de belleza, cortando pelo. Pero no salía, tenía mucho miedo. La verdad es que tuvimos mucha suerte que no nos pasó nada fuerte, como suele pasar.<br />
<br />
Ahora, con el bebé que viene, y con estas capacitaciones y el apoyo de la Federación, siento esperanza, que todo va a salir bien aquí. No deja de ser una lucha, pero ya tenemos algo para ir trabajando.
    Honduras_Hawkey_returned_migrants_20...jpg
  • Sergio René Almenares Euceda, Catacamas, Olancho<br />
<br />
Me deportaron, hace siete meses. Fue triste. Dejé mi familia botada allí. Gracias a Dios hemos reunido ya, solamente quedó una hija allá.<br />
<br />
A mi me agarraron manejando, iba para mi trabajo, me paró la policía y me entregaron a migración. Vivía como a una milla de distancia de mi trabajo. Me tuvieron como un mes y de allí me mandaron para acá. De Ohio me bajaron a Louisiana, y de allí me mandaron en avión a San Pedro.<br />
<br />
Yo era constructor de techos allí. De la teja europea. <br />
<br />
Cuando vine no estaba bien, económicamente, pero tenía ganas de trabajar, y con la ayuda de los Luteranos vamos saliendo. Me han ayudado grandemente y doy gracias a Dios, y a ellos, por toda la ayuda que me han dado.<br />
<br />
Tuve la capacitación de soldadura y todo salió bien. Tuvimos buenos instructores,  y nos enseñaron bastante. Yo nunca había trabajado en soldadura antes. Me dieron todo el equipo necesario. <br />
<br />
Me dieron soldadura, compresor de aire, me dieron pistola, dobladora, electrodos, segueta, pulidora, taladro y rotulo para el negocio. Completo. No mas he estado comprando cositas que necesito, pero casi tengo todo lo que necesito. Como le digo, con las herramientas, y empezé a trabajar, para ir sacando para la comida. Ya estoy saliendo adelante.<br />
<br />
Ya no pienso salir para allá. No. El American Dream para mi se me hizo una pesadilla. Mucho sufrimiento en el viaje, y la forma que le ven a uno allí, no, no es humanitario, es de desprecio, odio, racismo. Dicen que uno llega a quitarles el trabajo. Pero uno llega a hacer los trabajos que ellos no quieren hacer. Y ahora con Trump es más estricto. Hay mucha gente que no ha hecho nada mal, y tal vez tienen 20 o 25 años viviendo allí, y tal vez ni conocen su país e origen, porque se fueron jóvenes, y viven con miedo todo el tiempo, vivir así es una pesadilla. Para mi se acabó el American Dream.<br />
<br />
He tenido muchas conversaciones con un psicólogo, con la ayuda de la Federación.
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  • Panadero, Marvin Alonso Vaca Matute, 28 años, Santa Clara, Juticalpa<br />
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Estoy parado de trabajar mientras busco la solución de cómo volver a hacer funcionar el horno. Necesito trabajar, tengo una niña que mantener, y una mujer. Cuando uno no esta trabajando varias cosas se paran. La casa la hice sin ningún préstamo, pero el solar si lo estoy pagando. Todas las tierras aquí son de Pepe Lobo. <br />
<br />
Fui hasta Mexico. <br />
<br />
Antes de hacer la casa mi anhelo fue tener mi casa, estaba alquilando. En esos momentos no tenía una entrada de dinero, un trabajo. Pués en eso apareció una persona que conocí, que llevaba personas para Estados Unidos, coyote, y pués yo le dije verdad que yo quería irme, pero no tenía dinero porque se ocupa mucho dinero. Siete mil dólares. Se le da la mitad antes, y la mitad al llegar. Pero yo no tenía verdad, dinero para pagarle. Entonces le dije, y me dijo que me llevaba pero si le iba ayudando con las personas, y a mi me iba a llevar de gratis. Pués decidimos salir. Ya entrando Guatemala el coyote nos llevaba a un hotel pero el hotel era ruin, con un colchón muy delgado que era como dormir en el mero suelo. Pero como iba como de regalado, verdad. Pero salía, y a veces de madrugada llegaba tomado. Y cuando preguntábamos por la comida de nosotros? Nada. Después de tres días nos llevó para la capital de Guatemala, y después de un día agarramos para la frontera con México, en Tecún Umán, y luego entramos en Tapachula. Y nos dejaba en un hotel hasta por dos días, se perdía, y apenas unos burritos de comida nos traía, no me parecía mucho. Varios días sin comida. Pero las ganas de llegar a los Estados Unidos era tanto que no importaba, el sacrificio. Pasaron varias semanas allí en Tapachula. Y llegó un momento que nos dimos cuenta que se perdió. Y yo cuidando a una mujer. No teníamos para comer. Le hablé a mi mamá y me mandó un dinerito, y con eso compraba un poquito de comida para mi y para la mujer. No la podía dejar sola
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  • Kevin Giovanni Zelaya, 25, Juticalpa<br />
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Me fui para los Estados Unidos, estuve una semana y me deportaron. Supuestamente iba a trabajar, y me agarraron. No me trataron bien, me trataron como delincuente se puede decir. Un trata aquí de quitar los obstáculos en la vida, porque es difícil tener sus propios negocios, su casa, sus cosas, es bien difícil, entonces uno trata de hacer su vida, la vida de sus hijos, y trata de tener una vida nueva en otro país, porque en este país no te dan un apoyo, no te dan una buena educación, y la economía no esta bien entonces no hay buenos trabajos. Solo mire el país, como estamos, así no se puede, es bien difícil. Entonces decidí. Irme. <br />
<br />
Sufrí.<br />
<br />
La delincuencia que estamos sufriendo en este país es exagerado. Empieza con los políticos y los policías. Estamos acabados. Es difícil llegar a tener algo en la vida en este país. Por eso tantas personas deciden irse, por lo mismo, porque no tenemos un empleo, la canasta básica es demasiada alta, el combustible, es una vida muy complicada<br />
<br />
Mi mamá ya no podía darnos más que un tiempo de comida, estaba sacrificado, y ya no. Decidí. Estuve en Mexico, trabajé en lo que sea en Mexico, conocí una chava, ella me ayudó. Por medio de ella conocí un coyote. Me fui por el río, por Michoacán. Sufrí bastante. Caminé mucho, por el desierto. Después de tanto sufrimiento, cuando llegué estaba aliviado, que había llegado con vida. No todo el mundo llega. Me fui donde un primo hermano mío, estaba recuperando allí. El tiene papeles. Apenas estaba recuperando físicamente, de tanto macaneo, de las heridas y la deshidratación, y había perdido mucho peso, estaba muy flaco, cuando me agarró la migra. Muchos no llegan. Muchos se mueren en el camino.<br />
<br />
Iba gente, iban débiles del viaje, que ya no podían, no tenían fuerzas, y no podían con el río. Se iban por el río, no podían, como cruzar. Se iban con hambre, con sueño, golpeados. Una muchacha. Se la llevó el río. Se
    Honduras_Hawkey_returned_migrants_20...jpg
  • Panadero, Marvin Alonso Vaca Matute, 28 años, Santa Clara, Juticalpa<br />
<br />
Estoy parado de trabajar mientras busco la solución de cómo volver a hacer funcionar el horno. Necesito trabajar, tengo una niña que mantener, y una mujer. Cuando uno no esta trabajando varias cosas se paran. La casa la hice sin ningún préstamo, pero el solar si lo estoy pagando. Todas las tierras aquí son de Pepe Lobo. <br />
<br />
Fui hasta Mexico. <br />
<br />
Antes de hacer la casa mi anhelo fue tener mi casa, estaba alquilando. En esos momentos no tenía una entrada de dinero, un trabajo. Pués en eso apareció una persona que conocí, que llevaba personas para Estados Unidos, coyote, y pués yo le dije verdad que yo quería irme, pero no tenía dinero porque se ocupa mucho dinero. Siete mil dólares. Se le da la mitad antes, y la mitad al llegar. Pero yo no tenía verdad, dinero para pagarle. Entonces le dije, y me dijo que me llevaba pero si le iba ayudando con las personas, y a mi me iba a llevar de gratis. Pués decidimos salir. Ya entrando Guatemala el coyote nos llevaba a un hotel pero el hotel era ruin, con un colchón muy delgado que era como dormir en el mero suelo. Pero como iba como de regalado, verdad. Pero salía, y a veces de madrugada llegaba tomado. Y cuando preguntábamos por la comida de nosotros? Nada. Después de tres días nos llevó para la capital de Guatemala, y después de un día agarramos para la frontera con México, en Tecún Umán, y luego entramos en Tapachula. Y nos dejaba en un hotel hasta por dos días, se perdía, y apenas unos burritos de comida nos traía, no me parecía mucho. Varios días sin comida. Pero las ganas de llegar a los Estados Unidos era tanto que no importaba, el sacrificio. Pasaron varias semanas allí en Tapachula. Y llegó un momento que nos dimos cuenta que se perdió. Y yo cuidando a una mujer. No teníamos para comer. Le hablé a mi mamá y me mandó un dinerito, y con eso compraba un poquito de comida para mi y para la mujer. No la podía dejar sola
    Honduras_Hawkey_returned_migrants_20...jpg
  • Kevin Giovanni Zelaya, 25, Juticalpa<br />
<br />
Me fui para los Estados Unidos, estuve una semana y me deportaron. Supuestamente iba a trabajar, y me agarraron. No me trataron bien, me trataron como delincuente se puede decir. Un trata aquí de quitar los obstáculos en la vida, porque es difícil tener sus propios negocios, su casa, sus cosas, es bien difícil, entonces uno trata de hacer su vida, la vida de sus hijos, y trata de tener una vida nueva en otro país, porque en este país no te dan un apoyo, no te dan una buena educación, y la economía no esta bien entonces no hay buenos trabajos. Solo mire el país, como estamos, así no se puede, es bien difícil. Entonces decidí. Irme. <br />
<br />
Sufrí.<br />
<br />
La delincuencia que estamos sufriendo en este país es exagerado. Empieza con los políticos y los policías. Estamos acabados. Es difícil llegar a tener algo en la vida en este país. Por eso tantas personas deciden irse, por lo mismo, porque no tenemos un empleo, la canasta básica es demasiada alta, el combustible, es una vida muy complicada<br />
<br />
Mi mamá ya no podía darnos más que un tiempo de comida, estaba sacrificado, y ya no. Decidí. Estuve en Mexico, trabajé en lo que sea en Mexico, conocí una chava, ella me ayudó. Por medio de ella conocí un coyote. Me fui por el río, por Michoacán. Sufrí bastante. Caminé mucho, por el desierto. Después de tanto sufrimiento, cuando llegué estaba aliviado, que había llegado con vida. No todo el mundo llega. Me fui donde un primo hermano mío, estaba recuperando allí. El tiene papeles. Apenas estaba recuperando físicamente, de tanto macaneo, de las heridas y la deshidratación, y había perdido mucho peso, estaba muy flaco, cuando me agarró la migra. Muchos no llegan. Muchos se mueren en el camino.<br />
<br />
Iba gente, iban débiles del viaje, que ya no podían, no tenían fuerzas, y no podían con el río. Se iban por el río, no podían, como cruzar. Se iban con hambre, con sueño, golpeados. Una muchacha. Se la llevó el río. Se
    Honduras_Hawkey_returned_migrants_20...jpg
  • Kevin Giovanni Zelaya, 25, Juticalpa<br />
<br />
Me fui para los Estados Unidos, estuve una semana y me deportaron. Supuestamente iba a trabajar, y me agarraron. No me trataron bien, me trataron como delincuente se puede decir. Un trata aquí de quitar los obstáculos en la vida, porque es difícil tener sus propios negocios, su casa, sus cosas, es bien difícil, entonces uno trata de hacer su vida, la vida de sus hijos, y trata de tener una vida nueva en otro país, porque en este país no te dan un apoyo, no te dan una buena educación, y la economía no esta bien entonces no hay buenos trabajos. Solo mire el país, como estamos, así no se puede, es bien difícil. Entonces decidí. Irme. <br />
<br />
Sufrí.<br />
<br />
La delincuencia que estamos sufriendo en este país es exagerado. Empieza con los políticos y los policías. Estamos acabados. Es difícil llegar a tener algo en la vida en este país. Por eso tantas personas deciden irse, por lo mismo, porque no tenemos un empleo, la canasta básica es demasiada alta, el combustible, es una vida muy complicada<br />
<br />
Mi mamá ya no podía darnos más que un tiempo de comida, estaba sacrificado, y ya no. Decidí. Estuve en Mexico, trabajé en lo que sea en Mexico, conocí una chava, ella me ayudó. Por medio de ella conocí un coyote. Me fui por el río, por Michoacán. Sufrí bastante. Caminé mucho, por el desierto. Después de tanto sufrimiento, cuando llegué estaba aliviado, que había llegado con vida. No todo el mundo llega. Me fui donde un primo hermano mío, estaba recuperando allí. El tiene papeles. Apenas estaba recuperando físicamente, de tanto macaneo, de las heridas y la deshidratación, y había perdido mucho peso, estaba muy flaco, cuando me agarró la migra. Muchos no llegan. Muchos se mueren en el camino.<br />
<br />
Iba gente, iban débiles del viaje, que ya no podían, no tenían fuerzas, y no podían con el río. Se iban por el río, no podían, como cruzar. Se iban con hambre, con sueño, golpeados. Una muchacha. Se la llevó el río. Se
    Honduras_Hawkey_returned_migrants_20...jpg
  • Sergio René Almenares Euceda, Catacamas, Olancho<br />
<br />
Me deportaron, hace siete meses. Fue triste. Dejé mi familia botada allí. Gracias a Dios hemos reunido ya, solamente quedó una hija allá.<br />
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A mi me agarraron manejando, iba para mi trabajo, me paró la policía y me entregaron a migración. Vivía como a una milla de distancia de mi trabajo. Me tuvieron como un mes y de allí me mandaron para acá. De Ohio me bajaron a Louisiana, y de allí me mandaron en avión a San Pedro.<br />
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Yo era constructor de techos allí. De la teja europea. <br />
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Cuando vine no estaba bien, económicamente, pero tenía ganas de trabajar, y con la ayuda de los Luteranos vamos saliendo. Me han ayudado grandemente y doy gracias a Dios, y a ellos, por toda la ayuda que me han dado.<br />
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Tuve la capacitación de soldadura y todo salió bien. Tuvimos buenos instructores,  y nos enseñaron bastante. Yo nunca había trabajado en soldadura antes. Me dieron todo el equipo necesario. <br />
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Me dieron soldadura, compresor de aire, me dieron pistola, dobladora, electrodos, segueta, pulidora, taladro y rotulo para el negocio. Completo. No mas he estado comprando cositas que necesito, pero casi tengo todo lo que necesito. Como le digo, con las herramientas, y empezé a trabajar, para ir sacando para la comida. Ya estoy saliendo adelante.<br />
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Ya no pienso salir para allá. No. El American Dream para mi se me hizo una pesadilla. Mucho sufrimiento en el viaje, y la forma que le ven a uno allí, no, no es humanitario, es de desprecio, odio, racismo. Dicen que uno llega a quitarles el trabajo. Pero uno llega a hacer los trabajos que ellos no quieren hacer. Y ahora con Trump es más estricto. Hay mucha gente que no ha hecho nada mal, y tal vez tienen 20 o 25 años viviendo allí, y tal vez ni conocen su país e origen, porque se fueron jóvenes, y viven con miedo todo el tiempo, vivir así es una pesadilla. Para mi se acabó el American Dream.<br />
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He tenido muchas conversaciones con un psicólogo, con la ayuda de la Federación.
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  • Sergio René Almenares Euceda, Catacamas, Olancho<br />
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Me deportaron, hace siete meses. Fue triste. Dejé mi familia botada allí. Gracias a Dios hemos reunido ya, solamente quedó una hija allá.<br />
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A mi me agarraron manejando, iba para mi trabajo, me paró la policía y me entregaron a migración. Vivía como a una milla de distancia de mi trabajo. Me tuvieron como un mes y de allí me mandaron para acá. De Ohio me bajaron a Louisiana, y de allí me mandaron en avión a San Pedro.<br />
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Yo era constructor de techos allí. De la teja europea. <br />
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Cuando vine no estaba bien, económicamente, pero tenía ganas de trabajar, y con la ayuda de los Luteranos vamos saliendo. Me han ayudado grandemente y doy gracias a Dios, y a ellos, por toda la ayuda que me han dado.<br />
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Tuve la capacitación de soldadura y todo salió bien. Tuvimos buenos instructores,  y nos enseñaron bastante. Yo nunca había trabajado en soldadura antes. Me dieron todo el equipo necesario. <br />
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Me dieron soldadura, compresor de aire, me dieron pistola, dobladora, electrodos, segueta, pulidora, taladro y rotulo para el negocio. Completo. No mas he estado comprando cositas que necesito, pero casi tengo todo lo que necesito. Como le digo, con las herramientas, y empezé a trabajar, para ir sacando para la comida. Ya estoy saliendo adelante.<br />
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Ya no pienso salir para allá. No. El American Dream para mi se me hizo una pesadilla. Mucho sufrimiento en el viaje, y la forma que le ven a uno allí, no, no es humanitario, es de desprecio, odio, racismo. Dicen que uno llega a quitarles el trabajo. Pero uno llega a hacer los trabajos que ellos no quieren hacer. Y ahora con Trump es más estricto. Hay mucha gente que no ha hecho nada mal, y tal vez tienen 20 o 25 años viviendo allí, y tal vez ni conocen su país e origen, porque se fueron jóvenes, y viven con miedo todo el tiempo, vivir así es una pesadilla. Para mi se acabó el American Dream.<br />
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He tenido muchas conversaciones con un psicólogo, con la ayuda de la Federación.
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  • Santos del Socorro Rojas holds a photo of her son Jorge Alberto Reyes Dávila as she walks with a group of Central Americans during a demonstration in the center of Tapachula, Mexico, on December 16, 2013. The group, mostly mothers looking for their children, spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. They also demanded that Mexican government officials improve their treatment of migrants transiting the country.<br />
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Rojas, from Chinandega, Nicaragua, was reunited with her son later that same day after people at a church-run migrant shelter recognized the photo. They had been separated for nine years.
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  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
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  • Women hold photos of their disappeared family members during a December18, 2013 demonstration in the middle of the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. <br />
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The women were part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. In addition to searching for clues to the fate of their loved ones, they called on the Mexican government to improve its treatment of migrants transiting the country.
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  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
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  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
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  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
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  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
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  • Migrants and others cross the Suchiate River where it forms a border between Guatemala and Mexico. The river crossing is part of the main route that Central American migrants follow on their way north.
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  • Maria de Jesus Silva Velasquez holds photos of two disappeared family members as she speaks at a December 16, 2013 demonstration for migrants' rights in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula. A Nicaraguan, Silva was part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. At her side is Iris Yaconda, a psychologist with Jesuit Refugee Service who provided emotional support to members of the caravan.<br />
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Silva holds photos of her daughter Jacqueline Silva Giron, who was kidnapped by traffickers in 2004 at the age of 11. Silva has identified the woman responsible for the abduction, but has been unable to locate her daughter for nine years. The second photo she holds is of her nephew Humberto Mayorga Silva, who left in 2007 when he went to search for Silva's daughter. He last called in 2011 but hasn't been heard from since.
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  • Carmen Lucia Cuaresma, a Nicaraguan woman, holds a photo of her son Alvaro Enrique Guadamuz during a December 18, 2013 demonstration on the banks of the Suchiate River where it forms the border between Guatemala and Mexico. The woman crossed the river from Mexico to join in a demonstration in Tecun Uman, Guatemala.<br />
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Cuaresma came to the area as part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. In addition to searching for clues to the fate of their loved ones, they called on the Mexican government to improve its treatment of migrants transiting the country.<br />
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Cuaresma last heard from her son in 2011 when he called her from Mexico.
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  • Maria de Jesus Silva Velasquez (left) and other women hold photos of their disappeared family members during a December 18, 2013 demonstration on the banks of the Suchiate River that forms much of the border between Guatemala and Mexico. The women crossed the river from Mexico to hold their demonstration in Tecun Uman, Guatemala.<br />
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These women, all from Nicaragua, were part of a caravan of 45 people from Central America who spent 17 days touring 14 Mexican states in search of their loved ones, most of whom had disappeared while following the migrant trail north. In addition to searching for clues to the fate of their loved ones, they called on the Mexican government to improve its treatment of migrants transiting the country.<br />
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Silva holds photos of her daughter Jacqueline Silva Giron, who was kidnapped by traffickers in 2004 at the age of 11. Silva has identified the woman responsible for her daughter's kidnapping, but has been unable to locate her daughter for nine years. The second photo she holds is of her nephew Humberto Mayorga Silva, who left in 2007 when he went to search for Silva's daughter. He last called in 2011 but hasn't been heard from since.
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