Northern Triangle Research Paper

Thousands and thousands of women are seeking asylum in the United States, not because of war or discrimination, but they are seeking protection from a more personal danger: abuse from their husbands, boyfriends and male relatives. One woman recounted being raped, strangled and thrown against a wall by her husband, father of her twin boys. Two teenage girls discussed about being forced to become sex slaves for gang members. If the women do report the abuse to the police, they risk their homes being destroyed by gang members. “In my country, nobody pays attention to what women suffer,” Juliza, a victim of being sexual abuse by her husband said in a telephone interview with Pamela Constable who covers immigration issues and communities for the Washington Post . “We are just expected to endure.” A high reported percentage of women from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are seeking asylum basing their claims on sexual violence. Most of these women don’t have the police or hospital records of their abuse which would be a difficult cases proving their stories. the Government reported that if every …show more content…
Kerry has announced a great opportunity for women facing violence, a sanctuary where they can apply to settle as refugees in the United states, which is being created by the U.S officials to open centers in three countries of Central America’s northern triangle. Experts describe the three ‘northern triangle’ countries as failed states filled with chaotic from years of civil war and social collapse gave new power to gangs, exhausting and destroying the law enforcements systems. Gangs control large territory in El Salvador and Honduras, murders rates have gone through the roof from gangs killing off anyone who resists paying their so called rents. Angelina Marquez, former policewomen and counselor for abuse women told ‘death seems normal, there are 12-year olds committing massacres, bodies cut up in pieces, and so much violence against