Are The Gangs the Child Immigrants Flee From of Our Own Making?

    Did we teach them violence, then send them home? In the 1980s, did immigrants come from Central America, learn the ways of our gangs, then get deported in the 1990s, taking with them the gang culture they learned here and infecting their home countries with it?

   And, are the gangs the children are now fleeing from the very ones we exported to Central America?

   So suggests an Associated Press article published in the online Deseret News July 24.