Alberto and his family live in the world's most violent country, that is not at war, El Salvador. Alberto told the New York Times, a gang leader approached his son asking him to be a drug mule. Little did his son know, refusing the offer would turn his family’s life into a living hell. The next day a young boy's rotten corpse appeared on Alberto’s door step. The following day, Alberto received an ultimatum telling him to turn in his son to the gang or else his family would be murdered. When Alberto’s son showed up at the United States border he was deported back to the life he fled in El Salvador. The United States should grant unaccompanied minors asylum.
Unaccompanied minors should be awarded asylum by the United States. Unaccompanied minors seek refuge from gangs and violence in their home countries. The short film “If You Come Back We Will Kill You” stated, in just three months over 400 children in El Salvador are victims of gang homicides. In impoverished countries in the Northern Triangle, law enforcement is corrupt. According to the Council of Foreign Relations, …show more content…
International Business Times reports, the government’s justification for deporting minors is to reunite them with family members, on the other hand, minors claim after being deported “ there is no real follow up.” Truly, if the government claims deporting little children is deed done in their best interest, they would at least check up on them periodically. Additionally, placing a minor in the same hostile situation they intentionally fled from causes more conflict. For one thing, statistics provided by The Council on Foreign Relations illustrated that deporting minors back to the Northern Triangle increased the overall violence in Central America. Also minors who fled are in even more danger than before because fleeing is frowned upon by
Unaccompanied minors should be awarded asylum by the United States. Unaccompanied minors seek refuge from gangs and violence in their home countries. The short film “If You Come Back We Will Kill You” stated, in just three months over 400 children in El Salvador are victims of gang homicides. In impoverished countries in the Northern Triangle, law enforcement is corrupt. According to the Council of Foreign Relations, …show more content…
International Business Times reports, the government’s justification for deporting minors is to reunite them with family members, on the other hand, minors claim after being deported “ there is no real follow up.” Truly, if the government claims deporting little children is deed done in their best interest, they would at least check up on them periodically. Additionally, placing a minor in the same hostile situation they intentionally fled from causes more conflict. For one thing, statistics provided by The Council on Foreign Relations illustrated that deporting minors back to the Northern Triangle increased the overall violence in Central America. Also minors who fled are in even more danger than before because fleeing is frowned upon by