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Henry was desperate to escape MS-13. He told the FBI. They turned him over for deportation.
Last edited Wed Apr 4, 2018, 10:26 AM - Edit history (1)
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One of the best pieces of journalism in 2018.
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Henry was desperate to escape his gang, MS-13. So he told Long Island police and the FBI all he knew. They used his information, then turned him over for deportation. Now, he's being sent back to El Salvador, where he's been marked for death as a snitch.
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A BETRAYAL
The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.
by Hannah Dreier
April 2, 2018
This story was co-published with New York magazine.
IF HENRY IS KILLED, his death can be traced to a quiet moment in the fall of 2016, when he sat slouched in his usual seat by the door in 11th-grade English class. A skinny kid with a shaggy haircut, he had been thinking a lot about his life and about how it might end. His notebook was open, its pages blank. So he pulled his hoodie over his earphones, cranked up a Spanish ballad and started to write.
He began with how he was feeling: anxious, pressured, not good enough. It would have read like a journal entry by any 17-year-old, except this one detailed murders, committed with machetes, in the suburbs of Long Island. The gang Henry belonged to, MS-13, had already killed five students from Brentwood High School. The killers were his friends. And now they were demanding that he join in the rampage.
The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.
by Hannah Dreier
April 2, 2018
This story was co-published with New York magazine.
IF HENRY IS KILLED, his death can be traced to a quiet moment in the fall of 2016, when he sat slouched in his usual seat by the door in 11th-grade English class. A skinny kid with a shaggy haircut, he had been thinking a lot about his life and about how it might end. His notebook was open, its pages blank. So he pulled his hoodie over his earphones, cranked up a Spanish ballad and started to write.
He began with how he was feeling: anxious, pressured, not good enough. It would have read like a journal entry by any 17-year-old, except this one detailed murders, committed with machetes, in the suburbs of Long Island. The gang Henry belonged to, MS-13, had already killed five students from Brentwood High School. The killers were his friends. And now they were demanding that he join in the rampage.
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My sympathy goes out to the people he murdered, those he helped to murder and their families.
Who in their right mind would help.police or the FBI now, if they were undocumented?