Honduran Single Mother Wins New Shot at Asylum From MS-13 Threat

A woman seeking asylum won a second shot at asylum because single mothers are more vulnerable to persecution in Honduras, the Sixth Circuit decided.

Jogelly Paola Turcios-Flores and her husband owned farmland in Honduras. Turcios-Flores said she and her family were extorted by Honduran gang MS-13 and threatened when they couldn’t pay. Turcios-Flores’s husband fled to the United States, assuming the threats would cease in his absence. Instead, Turcios-Flores said she and her two sons were left alone to deal with persecution from MS-13, and she eventually fled with her sons to the United States.

Turcios-Flores argued that she was ...