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Violence threatens new Central America refugee flood

Tuesday, January 12, 2016


El Salvador and Honduras are locked in an unholy race for the world’s highest homicide rate, with surging crime and drug violence across the region threatening to trigger an even larger surge of migrants seeking to get into the United States.

Nearly 10 percent of the 30 million residents of Central America’s “Northern Triangle” fled their homes over the past decade, and most have found their way northward.




Source: Washington Times