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In search of
a better life
igration by unaccompanied children from countries
in the ‘northern triangle’ of Central America,
comprising Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras,
is gaining attention as a humanitarian crisis in the United
States, while U.S. authorities are trying to discourage the
inflow of illegal immigrants who will almost certainly be
deported. Since October, 52,000 unaccompanied children
have arrived on the U.S. border with Mexico, according to
the Obama administration, and most are fleeing gang and
drug violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
These are scenes from what they left behind.
Above, children walk past an abandoned house at the
gang-infested 14 de Marzo neighborhood in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, May 23, 2014.
Top right: A woman looks out of the door as her son sits
outside their home at the Esquipulas neighborhood in
Tegucigalpa, May 22, 2014.
Middle right: An abandoned bicycle for children, a baby
swing and rubbish are seen in the back patio of a house
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identified as one of a series of safe houses for illegal
immigrants used by a group of coyotes, according to police
reports. Police found the house after arresting a coyote who
was with 12-year-old Ecuadorean girl Nohemi Alvarez
Quillay, on a street in Ciudad Juarez. She was travelling with
the coyote after her parents, who live in the U.S., paid a
group of coyotes to bring her over. She was later sent to a
government-run shelter for her protection where she “ ‘z
committed suicide shortly after.
Bottom: People hoping to reach the U.S. ride atop the
wagon of a freight train, k n o w as La Bestia (The Beast) in
Ixtepec, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, Mexico, June 18,
2014.
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