Dylan Lopez Contreras, a freshman at a New York City high school, was taken by ICE in May. This winter, he and five of his classmates documented their worlds using disposable cameras, illustrations and words.
Oscar, Ana and their children fled violence for safety in the US. Now Oscar, afraid and alone, is back in Honduras – ‘at the mercy of God and his will’
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Nuestro artículo fue publicado en español por @documentedny.bsky.social ! Dylan López Contreras fue detenido por ICE en mayo. The Guardian lo invitó a él y a sus compañeros a compartir un poco de sus vidas y sueños...
Now I’m left at the mercy of – of who?” said Oscar, speaking to the Guardian on the phone, from his hiding place. “I’m at the mercy of God and his will.” His case shows the extreme lengths the US government is willing to go to deport some asylum seekers...
First officials called him in for a check-in, then arrested him, then moved him to detention in Louisiana, then argued he was no longer a part of his household because his address changed. Then they threatened to remove him to Guatemala and finally – without warning – sent him back to Honduras.
An environmental activist and her family escaped death threats in Honduras... then 11 days before their asylum hearing, ICE arrested her husband, severed his case from theirs, and then deported him back to Honduras – where he's now in hiding.
