I Fled Gangs in Honduras and the Cartel, but the U.S. Taking My Daughter Was Torture Opinion
In June 2018, I decided I had no choice but to take my daughter and flee for our lives.
On our journey to America, we were kidnapped and held captive for three days by a cartel in Mexico. Men with AK-45s showed us videos of them murdering those who did not pay their ransom. Our hope for a future of freedom and opportunity in the United States helped get us through.
My mother miraculously was able to obtain the money to pay the ransom. Once the cartel released us, I thought the worst was over, but this was just the beginning. The harshest experience was waiting for us at America's border.
We finally arrived in June 2018 with the intention of seeking asylum. We thought we had finally reached safety, but instead we were greeted with treatment that I would call torture. U.S. immigration officials took my daughter from me, who was then 14 years old, and put me in jail.
I thought the threats in Honduras and kidnapping by the cartel were hard, but no—having my child brutally taken away from me was worse than any other pain I had ever faced.
https://www.newsweek.com/i-fled-gangs-honduras-cartel-us-taking-my-daughter-was-torture-opinion-1445093
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more stories like this. It just enrages me. 
