This Immigrant Returned To Her Dangerous Home Country -- Where She'd Been Raped --
This Immigrant Returned To Her Dangerous Home Country Where Shed Been Raped After Having A Miscarriage In A US Detention Center
E. returned to El Salvador to be with her two children. Then the US made it much harder for her to try to return and flee the gangs targeting her.
Nidhi Prakash
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on July 20, 2018, at 11:51 a.m. ET
Two months after having a miscarriage inside an immigrant detention center in the US, E. voluntarily returned to El Salvador, the country she tried to flee for fear of the gang members who raped her two years ago and continue to threaten her to this day.
I dont feel safe. I dont sleep; I dont have an appetite. I am always on edge that something is going to happen to me or my kids, she told BuzzFeed News over the phone, in Spanish. I feel even more in danger than before.
I dont want to lose the two children I have left. Shes staying with her mother and still trying to process and mourn her miscarriage.
BuzzFeed News is not disclosing E.s full name or the names of other people and specific locations because she is currently in danger from gang members and authorities in El Salvador. And Amnesty International says women are often convicted of aggravated homicide after suffering miscarriages.
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Her plan was to return home, recover from her miscarriage while not in a detention center, gather up her two children, who are both under 12 years old, and try to make the grueling trip to the US again. But a recent decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions may throw all that into chaos.
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/miscarriage-immigrant-border-return-el-salvador