Out of Bounds: Journey of a Migrant
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Promotions Register for a free copy of Home Essentials now. But in this corner of south Texas, every day still sees migrants trying to make it to the United States. Celia, the mother, says she's from El Salvador. We are not using her last name, at her request, because she fears for her safety.
On this part of the border, the majority of those trying to cross illegally are from Central America. Celia says she fled her country to protect her year-old son from one of the most feared gangs in the country, the Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS I had to hide him at a friend's house while we fled the country.
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They wanted him to join them. And they threatened that, if he didn't, they would kill both of us," she recounts, crying. The police are linked to the gangs," Celia says. That would have made it worse. It's an irony that she's fleeing a gang that originated in Los Angeles in the s.
MS was initially set up by Salvadoran immigrants who had relocated to the U. The FBI calls the group highly dangerous and violent. The chaos and insecurity they've brought to the region is one of the main causes of much of the migration from Central America. It's a boy and a girl, both 17, who come from Guatemala and Honduras, respectively. Castro then points to the other side of the Rio Grande toward Mexico, as other people pull a raft up from the water. Customs and Border Protection helicopter patrol flies over a border fence by a bridge between the United States and Mexico on Oct.
The river is narrow here and it's easy to spot them. She says she's seen cases of women and girls who have been sexually abused by the traffickers; men and boys who have been beaten. Border Patrol has a good working relationship with the Mexican police.
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Still, she acknowledges the smugglers use the same safe houses over and over again, with little interference from Mexican authorities. Under former President Obama, families likes these who were caught at the border would be processed and then set free until an immigration hearing could be scheduled, possibly years into the future, due to overburdened courts. It's been frustrating to spend time capturing people, he says, only to see them let go. If we're going to let people come in and just release them, why don't they just let them come to the port of entry and do it?
It seems like we should be discouraging people from making illegal entries," Hughbanks says. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has announced officials are now considering separating children from parents who entered the country illegally. The adults would be kept in detention and the children would be placed into protective custody until they can be handed over to a relative or put into foster care.
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Just north of the border, in the poor neighborhood of Las Milpas in Pharr, Texas, a community center holds a meeting packed full of mothers and children. The organizers hand out "preparation kits. While the Obama administration deported criminals who were in the country illegally, it generally left law-abiding families without documentation alone. Since the Trump administration has encouraged a more aggressive deportation strategy, many in this community say they're very afraid. The kits have information on what the would-be immigrants' legal rights are if they're stopped by Border Patrol or even regular police.
The kits also include draft custody forms; the organizers explain that it's vital for the parents to designate a legal guardian because their children could be put into foster care if they don't have one and the parents are deported. The mothers' faces look grave as they listen. Eva is among them. At her request, we're using only Eva's first name because she's in the U. She has six children, but it's her 9-year-old boy who has become terrified that she'll be taken away. The center helps thousands of immigrants.
She says she's planning to fill out the custody document but she's torn over whom to appoint.
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It's such a terrifying decision, she says, "I just don't trust that many people. Eva knows how difficult a burden this will be on whoever may have to take her kids — she's already looking after the son of one of her friends who was deported. He has special needs and it's been very hard. That's not what we want," Eva says.
She runs a hotline to report abuses by the Border Patrol or police and says she's hearing about an uptick in aggressive policing of neighborhoods where unauthorized immigrants live. The Rio Grande Valley sector is one of the busiest areas for illegal border crossings, especially for Central Americans, into the U.