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P.J. TOBIA (NewsHour): Last year, 11-year-old Nodwin survived a journey that has killed many adults. He traveled from Honduras to the U.S. border over land almost entirely by himself. He almost drowned crossing the Rio Grande River near Texas in an inflatable raft.
NODWIN, Child Migrant (through interpreter): The boat suffered a puncture, and I went under the water, but I managed to grab onto a piece of wood, and that’s how I saved myself.
P.J. TOBIA: He says he made this dangerous journey because his hometown in Honduras has been overrun by criminal gangs.
NODWIN (through interpreter): Big people force the children to sell bad things, and if they don’t do it, they rape them or they kill them.
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