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“Since 2008, UNHCR has recorded a nearly fivefold increase in asylum seekers arriving to the United States from the Northern Triangle region of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Over the same period, we have seen a thirteen-fold increase in the number of requests for asylum from within Central America and Mexico, a staggering indicator of the surging violence shaking the region.”
- excerpt from a recent study conducted by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Denial
in the US
“What can be simpler or more accurately stated? The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.”
- Donald Trump on July 5th, 2015
“Please remember that we are also human beings. I didn’t want to come here, but for me it was a question of life and death.”
- A Salvadorian woman who was recently granted asylum in the US
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