#3 The NYT today ran a story about refugees on the US side of the border, I expect there will be many more stories like this: “It’s very hard over there,” said Vicente Burciaga, 23, who fled El Porvenir a month ago with his wife, Mayra, and their infant son after gang members burned down five homes in their neighborhood and killed a neighbor. “They are killing people over there who have nothing to do with drug trafficking,” he said. “They kill you just for having seen what they are doing.”
In the Fort Hancock School district, Spectators are now barred from football and basketball practices.
“All the children, the only thing they know how to play, is sicarios,” one refugee mother said, using the Spanish word for hired killers. |