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It was a prejudice, something you feel \u003Cem\u003Ebefore\u003C\/em\u003E you know enough to make a sounder judgment.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI walked up to the men and said hi, so I could decide for myself.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EUnsurprisingly, they all said \u201chi\u201d back. And we talked. They told me about their stories. As it happened, instead of being gang members they were fleeing from them.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the men, William, is 22 years old. He\u2019s from El Salvador, a country plagued by gang violence since before he was born. He said he has been working in the fields since he was 9 years old, two years after his parents separated and abandoned him with his grandparents. He has been living on his own since he was 15.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe situation in my \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.repo.funde.org\/1120\/13\/DIAG-SONSO-2015.pdf\u0022\u003Eregion\u003C\/a\u003E is very dangerous. Both because of the police and the gangs,\u201d he told me. \u201cIf the police think you are with the gangs, they kill you. If a gang thinks you\u2019re not from their area and you cross a line, they kill you,\u201d he said. When William heard about the caravan, he decided to leave.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe same applied to many others. And in the coming days, I\u2019ll share with you some of their individual stories.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThey\u2019re the stories of people who have come to the US border for different reasons, in hopes of different things. By no means are they part of a monolithic group. And by no means do they all qualify for protection or legal status in the United States or in other countries. William said it best: \u201cIt\u2019s not all good people here, there are also bad people, but we all came peacefully.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd here\u2019s the thing: No one can know any of that without talking to each and every one of them. 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