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struggle4progress

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Wed Jan 31, 2018, 01:46 AM Jan 2018

MS-13 wants to force teen into gang

BY JANE WESTER
January 30, 2018 05:06 PM
Updated 2 hours 46 minutes ago

When Maria Velasquez’ son was 10, he was forced to act as a messenger for the violent gang MS-13 in Honduras ... He and his mother fled to the United States. After crossing the border, Velasquez applied for asylum for herself and her son ...

An immigration judge denied her application, and the 4th .. Circuit .. declined to hear her appeal. Velasquez .. has been ordered to report for deportation – on Wednesday, at 9 a.m. Her attorneys filed for an emergency stay ...

"Ms. Velasquez will be murdered if she returns to Honduras ... (Her son), if .. not murdered, will be .. compelled to live a life of crime in service to MS-13" ...

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article197453334.html

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MS-13 wants to force teen into gang (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2018 OP
They are basically sending him to his death lunamagica Jan 2018 #1
K&R. I can't believe how threads like this get no attention lunamagica Feb 2018 #2
K&R... spanone Feb 2018 #3
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