From The Daily Beast:
Poverty was surely a factor, as no doubt was the mistaken belief that American immigration authorities would not send back unaccompanied children. But only true terror could have driven kids by the thousands to make the harrowing journey from Honduras to the United States. “It has to be extreme fear,” says Al Valdez, formerly the supervising investigator of the gang unit at Orange County District Attorney’s Office and presently a professor at the University of California, Irvine.

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