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Assignment Banishing America's Bad Hombres A community torn apart by violence
On the eve of her 16th birthday, the schoolgirl was on her way to basketball practice in Brentwood, a community on New York’s Long Island. She was attacked by youths armed with machetes when she tried to stop them abducting her best friend Kayla Cuevas.
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Assignment—Banishing America's Bad Hombres
Lucy Ash asks how a ruthless street gang is affecting the immigration debate in the U.S.
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