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| northbound freight train, Mexico AP/Rebecca Blackwell |
What goes around, comes around. As the U.S. debates how best to deal with the recent influx of mostly very young immigrants from Central America (http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/03/which-way-home.html, http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/06/suffer-little-children.html), this article points to a major but little-known factor in the violence they're trying to escape: Los Angeles gangs that have set up shop, mainly in Honduras and El Salvador. Says L.A. County gang specialist John Sullivan, "These gangs are part of the cultural fabric of the U.S., not Central America. We deport them, and they're bigger and badder than any gangs there, and they dominate." Out of the frying pan, into the fire, or vice versa?: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140723-immigration-minors-honduras-gang-violence-central-america/
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