Ron Johnson: Deporting Kids To Honduras Is OK Because It's 'A Beautiful Country'
Ron Johnson: Deporting Kids To Honduras Is OK Because It's 'A Beautiful Country'
The murder rate per capita there is among the highest in the world.
Elise Foley
Immigration & Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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It's not so bad to deport children to what was until recently the murder capital of the world, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Friday, since Honduras is "a beautiful country" with "gorgeous resort zones."
More than 200,000 unaccompanied minors or mothers traveling with their children have fled to the United States from the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador over the last two years, with many of them asking for asylum or other humanitarian relief. All three countries are plagued by out-of-control gang violence and inadequate criminal justice systems. El Salvador and Guatemala are both still recovering from civil wars that ended in the 1990s, while Honduras suffered a coup in 2009.
But the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs chairman said he saw on a recent three-day trip to Honduras and Guatemala that the implication that deporting children there is "sending them into a war zone" is incorrect.
"We had security but, you know, Vicki, it's not a war zone," he said on WIBA Madison's "Up Front with Vicki McKenna." "It's obviously a poorer country than America but it's a beautiful country, it's a beautiful country. The people are beautiful."
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