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July 15, 2014

U.S. Deports 38 Honduran Women, Children; Honduran President Says U.S. Drug Wars Fuel Migration 
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The Obama administration has deported 38 Honduran women and children,
some of them as young as 18 months old, in what it said was "just the
initial wave" of deportations, amidst a rise in children fleeing poverty
and violence in Central America. The migrants were flown to San Pedro
Sula, a Honduran city with the highest homicide rate in the world. In
June, children were murdered at a rate of more than one per day in
Honduras. One of those deported, Angelica Galvez, spoke after arriving
in Honduras.

Angelica Galvez: "They didn't give me any rights, nor a lawyer, nor an
interview, nothing. They took us in the morning, and they didn't tell us
anything, if we were going to be deported, nothing.

Reporter: "Why did you leave the country?"

Angelica Galvez: "The economy."

In an interview with a Mexican newspaper published Monday, Honduran
President Juan Orlando Hernández blamed the U.S.-backed drug wars in
Mexico and Colombia for pushing drug traffickers into Honduras and
fueling the violence that is helping to drive migration to the United
States.