New regulations from the Trump administration would disqualify these women from entering the United States, making this April, 2019 article newly relevant.

“THE MURDER OF SHERILL YUBISSA HERNÁNDEZ MANCÍA explains why Central American women are fleeing north….

“How can the leaders of an agency entrusted with investigating women’s deaths be killing women themselves?” …

“It’s wrong to turn our backs on vulnerable women under any circumstances, but especially when they are coming from countries like Honduras, where the government is doing virtually nothing to protect them and is sometimes itself the predator.

“Honduras is one of the world’s deadliest places to be a woman — a 2015 survey ranked it in the top five countries, with El Salvador and Syria.”

Read opinion by Sonia Nazario in The New York Times, April 5, 2019.