To read the entire story by Lorne Matalon, “Fear of Crime Brings Another Wave of Central American Migrants,” click this link: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/dec/09/fear-crime-prompts-another-wave-central-american-m/.

“In the first 10 months of this year, El Salvador reported nearly 5,500 homicides.

Elizabeth Kennedy is a Fulbright Scholar and social scientist at San Diego State University. She has calculated the number is higher than any other nation not at war. She described the situation in Central America as dire.”