Is this what you expect a refugee to be like?

Sonia Perez D. wrote an article designed to evoke our sympathies for the "refugees" from Central America. Her story was about Elsa Ramirez, one of the few who's been deported back home.

Elsa is a widow with a child. How could we be so cruel? She's suffered immeasurably -- her brother was killed in a family feud (I suppose that would have happened wherever her family lived); another brother was killed when he went to "collect on a debt" (I am reminded of the way the mob collects on debts -- perhaps this is why he's dead); her husband was a cocaine smuggler making up to $4,000 a day until a criminal more powerful than he took him out (it doesn't sound like he was a small-time dealer, does it?).

Now Elsa is afraid for her life. If you lie down with the dogs, Elsa, you rise up with fleas. Your case is like the U.S. ghettos -- is it Honduras that makes the criminals, or the criminals that make Honduras what it is? If it's the latter, then we don't need you here -- you won't get away from the criminal life -- you'll only spread it wherever you go.

"Mother fears killers will come stalking." The Dallas Morning News; July 24, 2014; p. 4A.