There is no law in El Salvador.
So far this year, dozens of army personnel and police officers, men and women, have been slaughtered by gangs, known here as maras, in a number of ambushes and assaults. Some of them were attacked while commuting to their homes.
In addition, a large number of spouses or relatives of police officers and soldiers have been killed in cold blood solely because of their relationship to law enforcement or military personnel.
The rich sit in their highly-defended homes or ride around in their armored cars. Outside those walls, people live in squalor, struggling to live from day to day.
This does not excuse our opening the border to them – oe those fleeing other countries – but it explains why they come, bust their chops to earn enough to send home to their families. And, as long as our leaders continue to ignore them and those from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, they'll keep on coming.
Where else have they to go?
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