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    ‘Our country is not a safe place’: why Salvadorans will still head for the US

    Poverty and gang violence are driving an exodus, regardless of US asylum reforms
    by By Anna-Catherine Brigida and Heather Gies in San Salvador Jun 24, 2018 4 minutes
    Gang members are seen inside a bus as they are transferred to a high-security prison on April 24, 2015 in Izalco, El Salvador. About 400 feared gang members were transferred under heavy guard to a high-security prison in El Salvador in an attempt Friday to choke the criminal networks behind an upsurge in already sky-high violence. AFP PHOTO / Marvin RECINOS / Getty Images

    Outside the migrants’ attention centre in San Salvador, 19-year-old Berenice Cruz’s eyes dart around nervously before she whispers that she had fled El Salvador “because of the crime”. Nearly all her family in the east of the country belong to a gang, she says, but she refuses to get involved. The gang threatened to kill her, so she attempted the perilous journey to Reno, Nevada, in the US, where an aunt lives and where sanctuary lies. She failed.

    “If I go back to where I live, they’ll kill me,” she says, shortly after arriving back in her home country from a detention centre in McAllen, Texas, where

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