The old Jews need to get together with the parents of children in Honduras. The children need to be saved just like some young Jewish children were saved during World War II. Americans see families huddled against the United States border with Mexico but do not realize the extreme circumstances they must run away from now in Mexico. Mexico used to be a fun place to visit full of culture and Tequila. Now the place is totally controlled by Drug Lords and teen gangs. A very unsafe place to live with a family. Imagine having to make a decision to leave your children because you can’t   provide them a safe place to live. It was difficult 60 years ago and is difficult now. At least then there were people even from Holland willing to provide safe housing fThe old Jews need to get together with the parents of children in Honduras. The children need to be saved just like some young Jewish children were saved during World War II. Americans see families huddled against the United States border with Mexico but do not realize the extreme circumstances they must run away from now in Mexico. Mexico used to be a fun place to visit full of culture and Tequila. Now the place is totally controlled by Drug Lords and teen gangs. A very unsafe place to live with a family. Imagine having to make a decision to leave your children because you can’t   provide them a safe place to live. It was difficult 60 years ago and is difficult now. At least then there were people even from Holland willing to provide safe housing for young Jews. These Mexican children are faced with hostility not a safe harbor.

Honduras is the murder capital of the world now. That is some lethal distinction to have now considering all the violence that is going on across the globe. You can enter the country and within 4 hours you can be a witness to 6 murders. It is not unusual to find police officers gunned down along with members of gangs. Within one hour and fifteen minutes, someone gets killed there. San Pedro Sula is the most dangerous city in the world. Gangs there can force kids as young as seven years old to join the drug trade. Gang violence fueled by drug trafficking is the main thing to do in this town.

Parents find themselves forced to hand their children off to total strangers in halfway houses many miles away in order to save their lives. This need to exit   is causing the latest crisis along the United States border. More than 80% of the Cocaine that comes to the United States passes through Honduras. It is the hub for drug trafficking. 39 people are gunned down each week. The families of gun victims rarely see justice. Everyone is afraid. The police are basically the people in uniforms to clean up after the fact.

Some 97% of the murders there go unsolved so you see how ineffective the police is there. At this point the parents are just desperate enough to want to save the younger children from a life of drugs and gangs that usually end up in death before age 30. When their 16 year old is gunned down the families get to claim the body at a place that looks like a bus station. It is one of the various City Morgues set up around town. The bodies are just piled up behind a wooden wall from all the violence there. Families wait outside waiting for a clue.  Some will get their cell phones or belongings stolen if they hang around for too long

Everyone is frightened for their own lives. They are willing to go anywhere and everywhere. Somewhere has to be better than the hell Mexico has become where drugs rule and everyone has a gun and is their own law, judge and jury. The gangs want you to join them or they will kill you and your entire family. A young person’s best choice is to join the military. At least they give you your own gun and they show up after the gangs are gone for a while. Someone should try to save these people.   Some are still left that care not to be involved in the drug trade.