Honduran activist's husband deported after family fled death threats

Oscar was sent back to Honduras and went into hiding as soon as his deportation flight landed. He pulled his baseball cap low at checkpoints, stayed at lodging his parents arranged far from the family home, and has hardly stepped outside. “Because I can’t trust anyone – not the authorities, not the government, not a police officer,” he said.

“They will kill anyone here. There is death everywhere.” US officials detained Oscar 11 days before his family’s asylum hearing, moved him from Maryland to a Louisiana detention centre and sought to sever his case from his wife Ana’s by citing his detention mailing address.

When he tried to apply for asylum alone, the Department of Homeland Security petitioned to scrap that application and send him to Guatemala; instead he was sent to Honduras for reasons his immigration attorney does not understand.

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