To Ease Crisis, U.S. May Vet Young Refugees Inside Honduras

So it's official now? Anyone who comes here illegally from central america is a refugee?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Fundamentally Changing America.

Hope and change - on your nickel!

A few weeks ago I bought a ticket for my niece and we toured Arizona State and some of the community colleges here in PHX. She is a hs junior and a good student that has taken AP stats and calc, was in the math club and does all kinds of extra curriculars. We talked about all the things she needs to do in order to get accepted at an American university like deal with USCIS, take the ACT/SAT the TOEFL and so on. She would like to study something like international relations but will probably go into STEM because we both agree that those fields offer the best chance for her to get hired on on a legal work visa when she graduates college....
This just makes me think we are going about it the wrong way trying to earn her way to the US and all....Honestly..it might be easier if she just gets her illegally.

It is bad in the sense that i beleive the violence reaches everybody. Just for me i have had a second cousin get killed because he refused to pay extortion money to the gangs, a former teammate get killed because he was mugged and resisted, and a buddy from college that went back after graduating was kidnapped. I have been mugged as has my father many times...and these were not people looking for trouble. I think you have to be extremely cautious...go to work and go home. If you are out at night, then your chances of bad things happening are high. This is middle to upper class areas. You can stay somewhat safe..but you have to be extremely cautious and almost paranoid. In the barrios man....I dont even dare set foot..they are pretty lawless. It's sad. This is in the bigger cities..in smaller towns ..it is somewhat better.

Very interested to know how countries like Honduras became so corrupt? Was it always this way since it's birth?

I don't even know. Its complex but in the end it begins with corruption. Right now for example the former head of our version of social security is on the run because he was embezzling. People die waiting for care VA style and this sob was buying his mistress in chile fake tits. Mario Zelaya....google the pos. My mom taught his kids in school. The guy just bailed on his family. Can you imagine the soulless scum you have to be to leave your wife and young kids. These types of scandals are the norm. When people see this kind of stuff they lose hope, become cynical and say f' it. If you are able like me..you get the hell out. If not...then why not turn to crime. At some point the narcos realized they had the perfect mix to set up shop. A bunch of pissed off kids they can recruit and corrupt politicians they could own. This is when the violence skyrocketed. Don't get me wrong, i am not some criminal apologeist. I think there is a big diff b/w the us and honduras. In the us there is plenty of opportunity. In Honduras for many...there just is not and it is not because of the man and the oppressive rich or some bs like that..it is about corrupt assholes like mario zelaya. Screw that guy.