On July 25, Heidi Altman, legal director at CAIR Coalition was quoted in a Washington Post article on how forcing the unaccompanied Central American children who have arrived at the US southern border back to their home countries would be sending them back to horrible gang violence.
Heidi discusses how CAIR Coalition has represented many Central American children who arrived from border detention since 2012 and that often they had suffered unimaginable violence at home or during their journeys to the United States.
“Many of them are fleeing several levels of violence, but they are too traumatized to talk about it at first,” Altman said. If they are forced to appear in immigration court too soon and cannot fully explain what they have been through, she added, “they may end up being sent back to face “abuse, rape and horrible persecution from gangs."
Read the full article "Could kids fleeing Central America be sent back to face more gang violence?" by Pamela Constable at The Washington Post here: http://wapo.st/1kfKde3
