Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
Sonia Nazario is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Enrique's Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother. She sits on the board of Kids in Need of Defense, a nonprofit that recruits pro bono attorneys to represent unaccompanied minors.
US aid is helping reduce gang violence in Honduras If 2016 felt short of good news, you might have missed that Honduras – once the murder capital of the world – has seen a big drop in homicides. Pulitzer Prize winning author Sonia Nazario first reported this story for the New York Times and she joined us in studio. We began our conversation with the Rivera Hernandez neighborhood of a town in Honduras called San Pedro Sula. There, 194 people were "killed or hacked to death in 2013," including a 13-year-old named Andrea Martinez. Sonia Nazario won a Pulitzer Prize and other awards for Enrique’s Journey , a book that alerted Americans to the plight of children fleeing from Central America. .
US aid is helping reduce gang violence in Honduras Sonia Nazario won a Pulitzer Prize and other awards for Enrique’s Journey , a book that alerted Americans to the plight of children fleeing from Central America. She went along as they were exposed to terror and life-threatening danger — riding through Mexico on the tops of trains. In this week’s New York Times' Sunday Opinion Section , she tells a different story. In the Rivera Hernandez neighborhood of a town in Honduras called San Pedro Sula, 194 people were "killed or hacked to death in 2013." Now, homicides have dropped by 62% -- and the US has actually helped reduce the deadly violence.
Immigrants Are Told "Don't Open the Door" to ICE during Raids On the Mexican border, the US is seeing another surge of immigrants from Central American — including unaccompanied children. Immigration officials are trying to send the message that they should stay home. In the past, immigration officials have raided workplaces to find immigrants who've been ordered to leave the country. Photo: Elliott Now, they're raiding the homes of families with children from Central America. Sonia Nazario is a journalist and the author of Enrique's Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with his Mother . She sits on the board of Kids in Need of Defense .
Honduran Child Migrants Are Deported to World’s Murder Capital President Obama has asked for $3.7 billion to secure America’s borders and speed up the cases of 57,000 Central American children, many of whom have come here on their own. There’s support in Congress for “sending the message” that they and others like them are not welcome unless they’ve gone through the process of legal immigration. Yesterday, Sonia Nazario had a different message for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The Tragedy of Immigrant Children — Travelling Alone President Obama boasts that illegal crossings of the Mexican border are the lowest in 40 years. But for kids, it's another story. The number of apprehensions expected this year is 60,000, ten times more than three years ago. They're running from extortion, rape and murder at home in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala--with more of the same in store as they travel northward through Mexico. We hear what happens when they arrive in this country -- as the humanitarian crisis continues — almost invisibly.
Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
Will the Senate write a healthcare bill in secret? While Democrats and Republicans argue White House relations with Russia, another question is being decided behind closed doors: who gets help buying health insurance and who doesn't? We hear how the pros and cons are being shrouded in secrecy.
Ex-FBI Director Comey tells his side of the story Today, former FBI Director James Comey came close to calling the President who fired him a liar. The White House denied the claim and called it insulting, but Republican Senators did not challenge Comey’s truthfulness. Many questions remain: did the President try to obstruct a federal investigation? Later, we’ll go behind the “velvet rope” for a look at 5-Star health care for the richest Americans.