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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

The Gangs and Corruption Fueling the Border Crisis

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The demographics of migrants crossing the southern border of the United States have changed over the last several decades. What used to be young Mexican men seeking economic opportunity has turned into families seeking refuge from broken Central American governments. Sonia Nazario has spent decades reporting from Honduras, a country where corruption runs rampant and gangs have become the de facto government. She says that the foreign aid that the Trump administration has cut off to Central America is the very aid that could help solve the crisis at the southern border. Guest: Sonia Nazario, journalist and author of Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sonia Nizario was born in the US, raised in Kansas, but her family has always been on the

0:40.1

move. Her father fled Syria as a young Christian. Her mother fled Poland as a young Jew. They met

0:48.4

in Argentina. Together they moved north, had Sonia. And then?

0:54.7

My father died when I was a teen. My mother decided to take us back to Argentina and I witnessed

1:01.0

persecution myself because I landed there in that country in Latin America just as the

1:06.7

military was taking power. What happened next was called the Dirty War. 30,000 political

1:15.5

dissidents were killed by the military dictatorship. And I lived in a reign of terror for a year

1:22.6

and a half. I had a close friend who was tortured to death 16 years old, a close family relative

1:29.6

17 years old who was nearly tortured to death. I saw this in a very personal, in my bones

1:37.2

sort of way, the need to flee. This need to flee. It's what Sonia sees when she looks at

1:47.2

the immigration crisis today. Sonia is a journalist. She's been documenting immigration

1:52.5

from Central America for decades. When she writes about the border, she sees all the history

1:58.1

that goes with it. And she's scared about the history we might be repeating.

2:03.1

You know, during World War II, the US turned away a ship with 900 Jews on board and said

2:08.7

you can't dock at our shores. And hundreds of those Jews were murdered when they were

2:13.2

sent back to Germany. And after the war, the US became a leader in saying never again,

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