17-year-old Marvin Jr. had to say goodbye to his father at the U.S. Mexico border to save his own life. Now Marvin Sr. must make the choice to leave and possibly never see his son again or lose the life he built for his wife and daughter in Honduras.
In February, he was released into the care of his uncle in North Texas, to await his fate in U.S. immigration court. They are living in an austere house with a group of Asian immigrants, all of whom work at a nearby sushi restaurant.
Marvin Jr.'s asylum case is based on his claim that a gang of toughs, who control his neighborhood and secondary school back in Honduras, approached him one day last April and gave him three choices. "It was bad," the son says."There were times when we didn't have a tent and it rained. We would sleep on the ground and when it started raining, we'd stand up until it stopped."
Once again, father and son had a difficult choice to make — stay or go. So Marvin Sr. hugged his son, told him to trust in God, and sent him across the Gateway International Bridge.Temporary immigration court facilities have been erected on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande. The Trump Administration is using them to speed up the adjudication of asylum applicants waiting in Mexico.Temporary immigration court facilities have been erected on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande.
Or he can go back to Tegucigalpa where his wife, Maritza, works in a factory making clothes for $40 a week, and cares for their daughter, 10-year-old Judith. But he borrowed $2,500 to pay for the trip north, and he says if he doesn't pay it back he'll have to give up his collateral — their house.The one bright spot is Marvin Jr.
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