“There is a couple of reasons that I came here,” Lili said, “but the main reason is because there is a lot of violence in Honduras.” Lili left Honduras at age 16 with her infant son, whose birth was the result of sexual assault. She attempted to find safety in the U.S., where her mother lived. She hadn’t seen her in 11 years. She made her way through Guatemala and Mexico by bus and walked through the desert for hours. Eventually, she was picked up by immigration officials, held in a detention facility, and then finally reunited with her mother. Lili
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