ABSTRACT
Alejandro Rodriguez, 15, on a Sunday afternoon in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, [is] walking under a tree with his father, wishing he were playing soccer with his friends. . . . In one month this spring, gangs in his home town in Honduras tortured and killed seven or eight children his age or younger, then threatened to kill him and his brother if they did not join the gang. . . . Now Alejandro, whose given name is Isaid, is in a deportation proceeding [in the United States].
