The deported L.A. gangs behind this border kid crisis
The deported L.A. gangs behind this border kid crisis
- July 11, 2014
- Al Valdez, social sciences lecturer, is quoted by The Daily Beast July 11, 2014
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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.
For the full story, please visit http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/11/the-deported-l-a-gangs-....
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