“This is a very dangerous place. There’s no safe place here because people get killed all the time,” the woman, who is going by the alias Juana to protect her identity, explained. She added that gang members left her “all beaten” at work in April, adding that it’s been difficult to hold a steady job since criminals are always looking to extort and assault her.
The Salvadoran government has determined she isn’t guilty of the accused crime, and after a year and a half, Salvadoran and U.S. officials have reportedly intervened to reunite mother and child. “Gabriel,” a former member of the Salvadoran military, also sought asylum in the US after being targeted by gang members, and was denied. He claims that since his return in 2018 he is constantly receiving death threats.
From 2012 to 2017 the number of asylum applications have grown by nearly 1,000 percent — from about 5,600 to over 60,000 — and the U.S. continues to deny so many of them. Only 18.2 percent of Salvadorans seeking asylum from 2014 to 2018 qualified for it, while a whopping 111,000 were sent back to El Salvador.
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