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'A death sentence': migrant caravan member killed in Honduras after US sent him back
Source: The Guardian
'A death sentence': migrant caravan member killed in Honduras after US sent him back
Fleeing threats, Nelson Espinal traveled to the US. One week after he was deported, he was shot dead
Jeff Ernst in Tegucigalpa
Sun 13 Jan 2019 08.00 GMT
Several days after Nelson Espinal slipped across the US southern border, he called his family back in Honduras from inside a US detention center.
“Tell Mom not to worry – I’m applying for asylum,” Espinal, 28, told his sister Patricia, who recounted the December phone call with tears streaming down her sun-scarred cheeks. “We must pray to God that they give it to me. I told them I can’t go back to Honduras because if I go back, they’re going to kill me.”
Espinal had made the 4,900km journey with several thousand others who joined the migrant caravan in October in the hopes of starting a new life.
Within weeks of reaching the US, however, he was deported back to his gang-infested neighborhood in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa – and the death threats that had prompted him to flee.
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But just over a week after his return, Nelson was shot dead on the street outside his home on 18 December 2018.
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Fleeing threats, Nelson Espinal traveled to the US. One week after he was deported, he was shot dead
Jeff Ernst in Tegucigalpa
Sun 13 Jan 2019 08.00 GMT
Several days after Nelson Espinal slipped across the US southern border, he called his family back in Honduras from inside a US detention center.
“Tell Mom not to worry – I’m applying for asylum,” Espinal, 28, told his sister Patricia, who recounted the December phone call with tears streaming down her sun-scarred cheeks. “We must pray to God that they give it to me. I told them I can’t go back to Honduras because if I go back, they’re going to kill me.”
Espinal had made the 4,900km journey with several thousand others who joined the migrant caravan in October in the hopes of starting a new life.
Within weeks of reaching the US, however, he was deported back to his gang-infested neighborhood in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa – and the death threats that had prompted him to flee.
-snip-
But just over a week after his return, Nelson was shot dead on the street outside his home on 18 December 2018.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/nelson-espinal-death-deported-migrant-caravan-us-border-honduras
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