{"id":389427,"date":"2018-12-17T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/he-said-hed-be-murdered-if-deported-he-was\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:56:10","slug":"he-said-hed-be-murdered-if-deported-he-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/he-said-hed-be-murdered-if-deported-he-was\/","title":{"rendered":"He Said He’d Be Murdered If Deported. He Was."},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Nearly a year after <\/span>a judge rejected Santos Chirino\u2019s case for asylum<\/a>, his 18-year-old daughter and 19-year-old son returned to the very same courtroom to plead their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour honor, this is a difficult case,\u201d their father\u2019s lawyer, Benjamin Osorio, told Judge John Bryant. \u201cI represented their father, Santos Chirino Cruz. \u2026 I lost the case in this courtroom. \u2026 He was murdered in April.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Maria Sacchetti described for <\/span>The Washington Post, \u201cOsorio paused, and the judge blanched and stammered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou said their father\u2019s case \u2014 did I understand I heard [it]?\u201d Bryant asked, eyes wide.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Osorio said. \u201cIn this court. Not before your honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell good, because \u2014 all right, my blood pressure can go down now,\u201d Bryant said. \u201cYeah. I mean. Okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chirino is one of <\/span>more than 60 people who have been killed or harmed after being deported<\/a>, according to Columbia University\u2019s Global Migration Project; the government doesn\u2019t keep track of what happens to asylum-seekers who are deported.<\/p>\n

When Chirino appeared in immigration court, his lawyer told a judge how MS-13 gang members had stabbed Chirino with a screwdriver at a soccer game in Northern Virginia.<\/p>\n

He told him that Chirino\u2019s testimony had helped send the men first to jail, and later back to Honduras, where they were waiting for him to be deported, too. He read letters from Chirino\u2019s relatives in Honduras describing how \u201cdeath [wa]s waiting for him\u201d there. <\/p>\n

\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n

Stay in the loop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Never miss the news and analysis you care about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But Osorio failed to persuade the judge to grant his client asylum, and Chirino was deported.<\/p>\n

A little more than six months later, the lawyer answered a phone call from Chirino\u2019s daughter, screaming: Chirino had been found in a red Toyota pickup, shot in the throat. His brother had been found nearby, his head apparently bashed in with a rock found next to his body.<\/p>\n

Chirino\u2019s children are two of the 750,000 immigrants currently facing deportation in US…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly a year after a judge rejected Santos Chirino\u2019s case for asylum, his 18-year-old daughter and 19-year-old son returned to the very same courtroom to plead their own. \u201cYour honor, this is a difficult case,\u201d their father\u2019s lawyer, Benjamin Osorio, told Judge John Bryant. \u201cI represented their father, Santos Chirino Cruz. \u2026 I lost the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}