Roger was right back where he started.
He crossed into Guatemala this month with thousands of fellow Hondurans seeking to make it to the United States, only to become one of thousands sent back.
“We thought it was going to be different, but they treated us as badly as in Honduras or even worse,” he said.
Honduran migrants walk alongside a highway in Chiquimula, Guatemala, on Jan. 16. Guatemalan authorities estimated that as many as 9,000 Honduran migrants have crossed into Guatemala as part of an effort to reach the U.S. border.
(Sandra Sebastian / Associated Press)
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Roger, who spoke on condition that his last name not be used because of security concerns, had just descended from a bus at the El Florido border crossing Wednesday with about two dozen other Honduran men, women and children who had been rounded up by Guatemalan authorities.
Amerika, Mexiko und Guatemala vereinbaren Grenzschließung
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