--- title: Honduras: Child Deportees From U.S. Land in World's Most Violent City description: A chartered flight of minors and mothers deported from the U.S. landed on Monday in San Pedro Sula, said to be the world's murder capital canonical: https://time.com/2984030/honduras-children-deported-us-san-pedro-sula-violence-gangs/ author: Ioan Grillo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-15T07:43:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-01T08:58:17.629Z article:section: World og:title: Honduras: Child Deportees From U.S. Land in World's Most Violent City og:description: A chartered flight of minors and mothers deported from the U.S. landed on Monday in San Pedro Sula, said to be the world's murder capital og:url: https://time.com/2984030/honduras-children-deported-us-san-pedro-sula-violence-gangs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79d35a104500ec97/69869bb5cd804d134cccbebf/immigration-honduras.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1980 og:image:height: 1114 og:image:alt: Women and their children walk on the tarmac after being deported from the U.S., at the Ramon Villeda international airport in San Pedro Sula on July 14, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Honduras: Child Deportees From U.S. Land in World's Most Violent City twitter:description: A chartered flight of minors and mothers deported from the U.S. landed on Monday in San Pedro Sula, said to be the world's murder capital twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79d35a104500ec97/69869bb5cd804d134cccbebf/immigration-honduras.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Honduran Children Deported From U.S. Back to World's 'Most Violent City' > Sponsored content. 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Border Crisis: The Journey North to the US_ by [Ioan Grillo / San Pedro Sula](https://time.com/author/ioan-grillo/) ## Ioan Grillo / San Pedro Sula Jul 15, 2014 7:43 AM UTC by [Ioan Grillo / San Pedro Sula](https://time.com/author/ioan-grillo/) ## Ioan Grillo / San Pedro Sula Jul 15, 2014 7:43 AM UTC Twenty-one Honduran children and 17 mothers deported from the U.S. landed in San Pedro Sula on Monday — reportedly [the most murderous city in the world](http://www.businessinsider.com/san-pedro-sula-is-the-most-violent-city-on-earth-photos-2013-12?op=1) — to be greeted with balloons and smiles from Honduras’ First Lady. “These are people coming home with a broken heart and a broken dream,” Ana García de Hernández told a throng of reporters and cameramen pushing at a barricade as the deportees were given food. “We have to give them the best welcome we can.” Children have been deported before from the U.S. to Central America, although usually seated more discreetly on commercial flights. But the plane that landed on Monday from New Mexico was the first flight entirely made up of women and children deportees to be sent to this impoverished Central American country, Honduran officials said. García said it would be one of dozens of such flights chartered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the coming weeks, delivering deportees not only to Honduras but also El Salvador, Guatemala and parts of the region. Tens of thousands of Central American minors have [made the hazardous journey to the U.S. by themselves](http://time.com/2921501/central-america-migration-united-states/), in the hope of forming an immigration foothold for their families. Because U.S. border facilities are so overwhelmed, authorities often release children into the care of relatives already in the country. The largest number comes from Honduras, a mountainous land of sprawling banana plantations that has become the deadliest country in the world outside a war zone. In 2012, it suffered 90 killings per 100,000 people. While poverty has long been a driver of emigration, many children cite the violence as the reason they flee. However, with these chartered flights the new attitude from Washington is clear: children should no longer come because they will not be allowed to stay. “These deportation flights send a message to people and families in Central America, but also they send a message that the governments should listen to,” says Héctor Espinal, the Honduras spokesman for the UNICEF, which is overseeing the reception of deportees. “The message is that governments should do what they need to do to stop the violent conditions that are making these children leave.” Exactly how to stop the violence in Honduras is a subject of much debate. Many murders are carried out by two major gangs, each with thousands of members — the Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18\. Surviving military crackdowns and anti-gang laws, they have grown into transnational criminal organizations capable of shaking down businesses large and small. Adding to the bloodshed, drug cartels from Mexico and Colombia use Honduras as a staging point to move cocaine north to the profitable U.S. market. Speaking to TIME, First Lady García said Honduras needs its own U.S.-funded anticrime program, akin to Plan Colombia or Mexico’s Merida Initiative, to fight the gangs and cartels. “We have been having a frank conversation with U.S. Congressmen, and we accept that a cause of much of this emigration is the violence. The 30 most violent municipalities in Honduras are also the municipalities with most unaccompanied minors leaving, and these are places that have been hit by drug trafficking,” García said. “Drug trafficking starts in South America, unfortunately passes through our country and continues to the United States. We have spoken about the need for integral support to solve this problem. My husband, the President, has spoken about the need to implement in Honduras what they implemented in Colombia and in Mexico.” Any improvement however, will take time — and in the meantime, many are desperate. Coming out of the deportation-processing center after arriving on another flight, 20-year-old Wilson Hernandez said he was concerned about going back to his home in the Pradera del Sur neighborhood of San Pedro Sula. “It is a brutal place. There are gang members with rifles and grenades. I am scared to go out of my house a lot of the time,” says Hernandez, who was caught crossing into Texas. In April and May, eight minors were murdered in Pradera del Sur. Police say they were killed by gang members, possibly because they refused to be recruited. “This kind of violence makes kids want to run away. They just want to survive,” Hernandez says. “They can fly people home, but if this carries on they will still head north. Things have to change here.” ## Transcript This is the southern Mexican border city of Hidalgo we've explained that for people who want to illegally cross into the United States, going from Guatemala to Mexico is relatively easy, but this is where the serious business starts as you walk down these dusty streets. The illegal immigration business is very open. As a matter of fact, look at this explicit sign. It says in spanish, welcome to the Coyote Pass, coyotes are the human smugglers, and this is where people come to find human smugglers to get to the United States border, there are people up there, when we looked at them, when they saw we had cameras, many of them scattered. Passenger vans that snake through the border areas are all part of the equation. These vans are often very crowded, as this one is, also very hot, there's no air conditioning. Mostly commuters who are going to the city of Tapachula, about an hour drive, a bigger city on the southern portion of Mexico. BUt often undocumented migrants are on this bus because they want to Tapachula. That's where they can get services, food, medical care while they plan their journeys up north. But often undocumented migrants have no money and can't even afford these vans. They then have to figure out how to get Temecula to and to start their journey. And just before we got on this van we found a man who wants to get to the United States but didn't have enough money to get on this van. This is Luis Moreno, he's 33 years old, he doesn't speak any English but we've been talking to him a little bit. This is a man from Guatemala. He's here in Mexico right now. He wants to go to the United States. And as a matter of fact, he has been there. And he's been caught three times by authorities and sent back to Guatemala. But also very interesting about Louise, he's been caught five times here in the nation of Mexico. Not on the border, but other cities. Four of the times he was on the beast. That train where so many people get hurt. He says he was running on top of the train. He was tied down so he wouldn't fall off. But he was caught four times in the train. One time on a bus. So an eight times, he's been sent back to Guatemala. But he still says he's ready to go back. [ FOREIGN ] I want to go to the US and work, and help out my family. I can't do it where I'm from. One of the places that migrants come to for medical help here in Tapachula is Iglesias Albergay, this catholic church and clinic. But this is when you're seriously hurt. Or seriously sick. For example this man right here. You could see his foot. He was in the United States, got kicked out. Came back to Mexico and then got hit by a car while crossing. Really messed up his ankle. He says he still wants to go back to the United States but he won't be able to walk for the next couple of weeks. We also have this gentleman right here, and you can see that he's missing his leg. He was also in an accident. This baby was born here, six days ago. And this women right here, this is Malitsa. [ FOREIGN ] [ FOREIGN ] Thank you. She's 20 years old. She is the sister of the baby and this is Malitsa's daughter. Her mother's here, too. Her mother gave birth to the baby. But they have come from Honduras. They hope to get to the United Stated someday. That's what Melissa just told me. But right now they're here for the medical care of the baby being born. Also some food and hoping to get some good shelter for the next few days before they continue. 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