Why People Are Fleeing Honduras For The U.S.: 'All That's Left Here Is Misery'
Listen • 6:58 A smuggler bypasses the border crossing in the town of Corinto and leads a pair of migrants on a footpath through a farm that leads from Honduras to Guatemala. Joining the exodus of Hondurans fleeing their benighted homeland, Luis Alberto Enrique and his family search for the unmarked footpath into Guatemala to begin their dangerous, 1,500-mile journey to the Texas border. As they walk through the border town of Corinto on a humid morning last month, his two young daughters tote pink Disney backpacks and their favorite stuffed animals. Enrique says he heard...
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