After Texas shooting, refugees still hopeful of reaching US
‘Compared to the US, our country is much more dangerous,’ says a Honduran asylum seeker.
When a gunman targeting Mexicans killed 22 people in the US state of Texas last week, President Donald Trump denounced white supremacy and called for unity.
But critics say the president’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is increasing the hatred behind such attacks.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro went to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico to see if US gun violence is giving asylum seekers second thoughts.
Published On 14 Aug 2019