We have all seen the signs, like those above, that insist that the children, who have traveled many hundreds of miles, simply be forced to go back to the dangerous world that they just barely managed to escape.
But what happens to them then?
Well in Honduras we have an answer.
Courtesy of the LA Times:
"There are many youngsters who only three days after they've been deported are killed, shot by a firearm," said Hector Hernandez, who runs the morgue in San Pedro Sula. "They return just to die."
At least five, perhaps as many as 10, of the 42 children slain here since February had been recently deported from the U.S., Hernandez said.
Immigrant aid groups and human rights organizers say the Honduran government is ill-equipped to assist children at high risk after they have been returned.
Unaccompanied children from Honduras "come from extremely violent regions where they probably perceive the risk of traveling alone to the U.S. preferable to staying at home," the report said.
In one case, a teenage boy was shot to death hours after arriving in San Pedro Sula on a deportation flight, according to the boy's cousin, who refused to identify himself or the boy to The Times for fear of reprisal from neighborhood gangs.
To do so, he said, "I would be killing my entire family."
This is where those demanding deportation are sending these children. To their deaths.
And here's the thing that I am struggling with.
The people who are shouting "Send then back" the loudest, are the same people who are demanding that we protect Christians in Iraq and Afghanistan from attacks by Islamic terrorists.
Well Honduras is a deeply Christian country with 97% being Roman Catholic and the rest Protestant.
So why in the hell does the Right Wing care so much about Christians being murdered thousands of miles away who are very difficult for us to protect, and so little for the Christian children arriving on our very border pleading for our protection?
(H/T to AATTP.)
