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young people that aren t being given the choice to live their life and go out and play sports and just be kids? yeah, you know, in chicago, one of the things that i tell people is that it s really disheartening when you go to parks and you don t see kids being active in the parks. you don t see any summer programs. you don t see the kids actively engaged in life as they should be like other places in america. and as often some of these young kids end up in gangs, and that s the reason why we have community called project hood where we are trying to do something about the violence where we are working with individuals to try to move them and transition their lives and make life better for themselves and their family. we have to constantly keep our foot on the pedal to work with these youth and to keep them from participating in gang life. lawrence: pastor, you are doing the work on the ground. i just hope the leaders, the elected officials change their position. the kids deserve bette
long gone, gang life has left its mark. you have three dots on your hand. what does that represent? when you join the ms, they do it. you want to go to the hospital or jail? or to the death? pastor bonilla was part of the first wave of east coast who flaunted the brand with tattoos. if you have an ms tattoo, it means you are a big time gangsters. like a mark. don t mess with him. when you get into ms, it is blood in, blood out. the only way to get out is when you die. that s false. that s history. what was your way out? jesus christ. you know? you get tired sometimes of things. you get tired, police behind,
already. people are going to suffer now. you see all those people being deported to haiti, including women and children. there are no jobs and there is nothing here. what are those people going to do? the crisis is going to get worse. reporter: what they are coming back to is worse, essentially, than what they fled, laura. it was mentioned in the letter by the resigning u.s. special envoy that crippling poverty, this is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. the gang life that makes port-au-prince so unbearable and so dangerous. and the political corruption that once again he cited with corrupt political leaders he said working in alliance with those gangs. it gives you an idea of the state of haiti. it s been going on for a long time. it s some of the reasons these people left. they are now coming back to the country that is even worse circumstances with a president assassinated in july, and again, going back to that letter, what was described by the u.s. envoy to haiti as a
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