Honduran migrant gunned down shortly after U.S. deportation

By Gustavo Palencia

 

Alicia Espinal reacts during the funeral of her brother Nelson Espinal, 28, who was shot to death on Tuesday night shortly after leaving his home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, December 19, 2018. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera

 

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A Honduran migrant who had recently been deported from the United States was shot and killed a few blocks from his home, his family said on Wednesday, in another sign of the dangers faced by migrants fleeing Central American gangs.

 

Nelson Espinal, 28, was shot 15 times on Tuesday night shortly after leaving his home in the capital Tegucigalpa, said his sister, Patricia Espinal. The neighbourhood is dominated by the Barrio 18 gang, one of the country's most dangerous.

 

Espinal was deported from the United States in late November and barred from returning for five years, according to documents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

 

Nevertheless, Espinal, who worked in construction, planned to make another attempt to enter the country in January, his sister said.

"He said that if he did not leave, they were going to kill him," Patricia Espinal said as her mother, Sara Matamoros, wept. "That's why he left following the caravan."

 

Espinal was detained after crossing the border illegally in Arizona, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He did not appear to be part of the migrant caravans trekking from Central America to the United States and did not seek asylum, the agency said.

 

On Wednesday, a U.S. federal judge struck down Trump administration policies aimed at restricting asylum claims by people citing gang or domestic violence in their home countries.

 

In Mexico, authorities are investigating the deaths of two migrant teenagers from Honduras who were killed in the border city of Tijuana last weekend.

 

The youths, believed to be about 16 or 17 years old, showed signs of having been stabbed and strangled. It could not be determined immediately if the victims had planned to apply for asylum.

 

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters on Wednesday his government would seek "fair treatment" for migrants.

 

More than 2,000 mainly Honduran immigrants who travelled with the caravan remain in a shelter in Tijuana, Lopez Obrador said.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted that they will not be allowed into the United States, but a few asylum seekers have already crossed the border.

 

The killings could fuel criticism of a policy proposal that Mexico and the United States discussed earlier this year to have Central American migrants wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are processed.

 

(Reporting by Gustavo Palencia in Tegucigalpa; additional reporting by Frank Jack Daniel in Mexico City and Kristina Cooke in San Francisco; writing by Julia Love; Editing by Steve Orlofsky and Tom Brown)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-12-20

It looks like Honduras has a problem to work out.

Why should Honduras's problem become the US's problem. Haven't we seen what happens in Germany, France and Sweden with their open immigration policies. 

Judge Emmit Sullivan (judge who is watching over M.Flynn sentencing )  said he want's all the deportees  sent out to be returned  immediately and their cases heard all over again!This guy should of stayed in Mexico and took their offer.He could of been on the list to be returned to the USA

1 hour ago, phkauf said:

Why should Honduras's problem become the US's problem. Haven't we seen what happens in Germany, France and Sweden with their open immigration policies. 

http://theconversation.com/how-us-policy-in-honduras-set-the-stage-for-todays-migration-65935

Illiberals rush to parade their inhumanity as if it were a badge of honor.

Illiberals rush to parade their inhumanity as if it were a badge of honor.

Yep. It's called vice signaling.

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10 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Illiberals rush to parade their inhumanity as if it were a badge of honor.

Illiberals! Very polite

 

Lets just say that USA is further reduced. Embarrassing 

2 hours ago, riclag said:

Judge Emmit Sullivan (judge who is watching over M.Flynn sentencing )  said he want's all the deportees  sent out to be returned  immediately and their cases heard all over again!This guy should of stayed in Mexico and took their offer.He could of been on the list to be returned to the USA

But instead he was probably eliminated from the  Honduran list  for failing to kowtow to the local mafia...his reason to flee to the  uncompromising inhumane USA originally. And having been  deported Mexico also rejected  him.

Whereas when any  USA  citzen who suffers such treatment in a foreign

place there is the expectation the whole effin world  should  descend  upon and  deliver  justice !

There  is  one world. But  humanitarianism is locked  in xenophobia !

 

 

47 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Rubbish.

W

 

Two quotes? One nothing to do with me

 

If you want chapter and verse on how the great USA fouled up central and most of southern America, do let me know. It will be an absolute pleasure.

19 minutes ago, Grouse said:

Two quotes? One nothing to do with me

 

If you want chapter and verse on how the great USA fouled up central and most of southern America, do let me know. It will be an absolute pleasure.

That will only be part 1 of a long and sorry story...

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7 hours ago, riclag said:

Judge Emmit Sullivan (judge who is watching over M.Flynn sentencing )  said he want's all the deportees  sent out to be returned  immediately and their cases heard all over again!This guy should of stayed in Mexico and took their offer.He could of been on the list to be returned to the USA

The victim was not a part of the Caravan and there was no offer made by Mexico.   It was talked about and there was an offer of work visas for people from the Caravan, but not refugee status.  

 

It is, however, of little difference since he was not a part of the Caravan.  

"The authorities of the Honduran Foreign Ministry informed that they do not know if Espinal was going with the intention of requesting asylum in the United States. They were only informed that he had been deported from Mexico".

http://www.tellerreport.com/news/--a-honduran-migrant-deported-from-mexico-is-murdered-in-tegucigalpa-.rJOvu9teE.html

Nelson Roberto Espinal Matamoros-"As reported to the local media by relatives of the victim, Espinal Matamoros had traveled in the caravan of migrants that left from San Pedro Sula, in the north of Tegucigalpa, to the United States on October 13, but was stopped by migration from Mexico and deported to his country two weeks ago".

https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2018/12/20/asesinan-en-tegucigalpa-a-un-migrante-hondureno-deportado-desde-mexico/