Immigration

Honduran families deported back to a bleak future

By Sonia Perez
Published July 23, 2014 11:34pm ET
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Honduran families deported back to a bleak future
In this Saturday, July 19, 2014 photo, Elsa Ramirez, 27, deported a day earlier from the United States, stands just inside the doorway of her mother's home, in Tocoa, Honduras. Ramirez had heard that mothers traveling to the U.S. with children would be allowed to stay if they made it across the border, so she took off for the north with her 8-year-old daughter, Sandra, and 5-year-old son, Cesar, named for his dead father. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) | Esteban Felix

TOCOA, Honduras (AP) — Elsa Ramirez already had lost two brothers to violence in this remote Caribbean region when co-workers handling clandestine cocaine flights from South America murdered her husband four months ago.

Then the killers came looking for her.

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