Honduran mother speaks of her deportation ordeal
- 10 years ago
In the slums of Tegucigalpa, the American dream has come to an end for a Honduran mother and her daughter.
This is Victoria Cordova and nine-year-old Genesis.
When Victoria lost her job at a bakery, she made a hasty decision to go to the United States.
The start of a new life, they thought, to get away from this shanty-town scarred by poverty and drugs.
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) DEPORTED MIGRANT, VICTORIA CORDOVA, SAYING:
"I don't have any work, it's been four months without work. This is a part of what motivated me to go, the poverty, the situation here, insecurity we live through. We see children nearby who are very young at 12 and 13 years old and they drug themselves. It's terrible to live like this, here we live a life where you can't even call the police because they are controlled by the gang."
So mother and daughter endured a 25-day odyssey by land to reach Texas.
They nearly drowned in a dingy stuffed with migrants in the Rio Grande.
This is Victoria Cordova and nine-year-old Genesis.
When Victoria lost her job at a bakery, she made a hasty decision to go to the United States.
The start of a new life, they thought, to get away from this shanty-town scarred by poverty and drugs.
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) DEPORTED MIGRANT, VICTORIA CORDOVA, SAYING:
"I don't have any work, it's been four months without work. This is a part of what motivated me to go, the poverty, the situation here, insecurity we live through. We see children nearby who are very young at 12 and 13 years old and they drug themselves. It's terrible to live like this, here we live a life where you can't even call the police because they are controlled by the gang."
So mother and daughter endured a 25-day odyssey by land to reach Texas.
They nearly drowned in a dingy stuffed with migrants in the Rio Grande.