Murder and Migration in Honduras: Immigrant America

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Last summer, Americans were stunned by images of children and families from Central America turning themselves in at the US-Mexico border. More migrants are now coming from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula and surrounding areas than anywhere else in Central America. The society there has yet to recover from a 2009 coup that crippled the economy and unleashed extreme levels of violence and inequality.
In our latest episode of Immigrant America, VICE News traveled to San Pedro Sula - the most violent and second largest city in Honduras - to find out why so many families and young people are risking it all to migrate illegally to the US.
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