Honduras's Murder Rate Is Six Times Worse Than Chicago's. How Can We Send Children Back to That?
Over July 4th weekend in Chicago, 82 people were shot in a span of 84 hours, 14 of them fatally. Mayor Rahm Emanuel called it "simply unacceptable." The police commissioner described it as "Groundhog Day." And an op-ed columnist in the Tribune wrote, "Although the July Fourth holiday was particularly bloody, what's even more disturbing is how ordinary the killing and maiming has become."
But even Chicago's horrific weekend doesn't compare to the violence in the Central American countries that child migrants are now fleeing, contributing to the humanitarian crisis along the United States's southern border.
In 2013, there were “just” 415 murders in Chicago, the fewest in 48 years. That was an 18 percent improvement, but Chicago remained the city with the most murders in the United States (albeit outside the top ten in murders per capita). Last year in Honduras, more than 7,000 people were murdered, an average of 19 a day. The country has nearly three times as many residents as Chicago, but that doesn't account for the difference: In 2013, Chicago had 15 murders per 100,000 residents, versus 90 in Honduras. In the country's second-largest city, San Pedro Sula, the murder rate is 173 per 100,000 residents—earning the city the title of the world's murder capital.
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