including the youngest member of the group, a little girl. this teenager who arrived with his mom says he and others are fleeing gang violence in el salvador, and now that he s in the u.s. he feels safe. children in the group say they ve come here hoping to reunite with their parents already in the u.s. the mother of one of the kids telling nbc news, families pay smugglers $8,000 to $9,000 to escort a child. thank you to mike potter for that reporting. these children mostly from central america are often running for their lives. honduras and el salvador have some of the highest murder rates in the world. in guatemala, 98% of the crimes go unprosecuted. that violent drug culture actually has a surprising link to anti-immigration laws here in america. in the aftermath of the gang-fueled 1992 l.a. riots, and following the 1993 world trade center attack, congress passed two pieces of anti-immigration