Deportations are helping make Honduras one of the world’s most violent countries

Migrants to Canada are routinely prosecuted for relatively minor offences and circulated back into a society torn apart by organized crime.

A man walks past graffiti of a machinegun in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’s second-largest city, on Sept. 17, 2014. The city has one of the world’s highest murder rates. UNHCR photograph by Roland Schönbauer

Opinion

BY GEOFF BURT, ROBERT MUGGAH

May 25, 2016

Canada has a well-earned reputation for taking in immigrants from around the world. Among them are refugees and migrants, including people fleeing organized political and criminal violence. While there is much to laud...

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