I knew this kid

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She came from Central America, from a country torn apart by an uncivil civil war. For men, the choice was to fight for whichever side got to them first, or simply disappear. Women with children were used goods, but their daughters were ripe for rape.

So the women saw their husbands and sons recruited, or shot, and their daughters raped repeatedly as they were available for use. Fathers saw their families in danger and themselves powerless to help them. Siblings saw each other misused and abused and their parents victimized.

Her parents had relatives in the United States, and wanted their daughter to get to them and away from the horrors of home. They paid money to an agent who claimed he could get her to the United States. They had no way to check for references and proof of claims, and, besides, it was a chance. If things continued as they were, the family would not be around to need money anyway.

Her parents brought her to the appointed place at the appointed time, and she joined a group of people making the same trip.

Along the way from the village to the United States she and the others had to pass through Mexico, and obviously since what the agent was doing was considered illegal, he would cooperate with whatever was the road of least resistance, and that often meant allowing the girls in the group to be raped and any man who objected to be beaten and left behind, or simply killed.

When they reached our Southern border the agent’s job was done. He had gotten what was left of the group to the United States. So he just walked away quietly one night leaving his charges in the desert.

Eventually through the kindness of strangers, she got to her relatives, and as one of her teachers, when this 13 year old girl came to the school, I and her other teachers were informed of her experience with some training on how to deal with victims of traumatic and multiple rapes.

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She came here not to take anyone’s job or to suck at the teat of the United States, but to avoid rape and possible death.

If she had been caught after arriving at the border, imagine what she would be sent back to, and what she might to have had to endure on the way home.

Her family never followed her here.

Hers is not a unique story.

Without learning why someone has come to this county and what they endured to get here, simply sending them back may seem like a simple task, but the reality may not be easy or even moral.

Certainly the American soul has not become so frozen that it sees only black and white, and even knowing the facts will not accept a person’s reality.

Only the heartless would have sent this girl back, but, unfortunately, these days there seems to be too many who lack a heart.

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