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Summary Of The Children Of The Drug Wars By Sonia Nazario

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“The Children of the Drug Wars” starts with Sonia Nazario describing the life of a 6th Grade Honduran boy named Christian. He wants to leave the country s soon as possible, and for good reason. His father was robbed and killed by narcos gangsters in a security guard night shift, he also knows of 3 others that were killed. Like this instance, people have been fleeing these violent communities because of violence. This number of children fleeing from these violent communities has spiked within the last three years; 6,800 to 90,000 detained in the United States. The narcos need for members influence them to go to kids as young as 6 to traffic drugs, serve as lookouts, and perform other illicit actions. The author of this article seemed biased
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