The U.S. southern border has become synonymous with crisis, and that crisis synonymous with the countries of Central America, particularly El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
In the ProPublica audio that went viral last year of crying children who were separated from their parents at the border, their tiny voices spoke a Central American vernacular of Spanish. In the iconic photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon, the family that was running from tear gas was fleeing Honduras. In another photo that quickly spread was the image of a father and daughter who drowned crossing the Rio Grande; they had left El Salvador for a better life. And most of the migrant children who have died at the border in the past year were indigenous from Guatemala…
This post was originally published on CAHRO Blog – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations.