Amnesty: Deported Central Americans face violence back home
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MEXICO CITY- Countries including Mexico and the United States are deporting Central American immigrants back to violent homelands that don't protect them, Amnesty International said Friday.
In a report released in Honduras' capital of Tegucigalpa, the international human rights organization said soaring deportations, especially by Mexico, are creating a desperate situation when combined with already sky-high murder rates in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
It gave the example of Saul, a 35-year-old Honduran man and father of five who survived a shooting that seriously wounded two of his sons. Saul fled the country when police failed to act on his report and Mexico denied his request for asylum and deported him in July. Three weeks later, he was killed.
The Amnesty International report said the man it identified only by his first name is just one of the many Central American migrants being deported who face death in homelands that do little to protect them. It describes cases of migrants who were returned to their countries and killed.
