PHOENIX- The search for the American dream for a 17-year-old Honduran girl began with the need to escape certain death in her family.
“He reached the limit once of leaving me 15 bruises on my body and he would drive us into the gravel and put blocks on top of our hands with our hands up.”
In an interview with Telemundo Arizona, she comments that she was just a child when she experienced this torture at the hands of her stepfather in Honduras and she was not the only one in her family. also his mother.
Escaping the violence that he experienced in his home at the hands of his stepfather, a young Mexican arrives at the border to request asylum in the United States.
“My mother came to Mexico when I was 10 years old because she suffered violence from my stepfather and she did not leave us because she wanted to, but because my stepfather stole from us and she did not know where we were.”
The young woman also assures that the money her mother earns, part of it is sent to her family in Honduras, who sometimes only have money for rice and beans, emphasizing that this is more than what other families have.
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