A report by his agency found that women in particular “face a startling degree of violence that has a devastating impact on their daily lives.” According to U.N. figures, this year El Salvador moved into first place in the world for the rate of murders of women and Guatemala ranked third, while Honduras had the highest murder rate overall.
A high murder rate in a country is no excuse for asylum. When in the hell did this become an excuse to enter the US illegally and make a claim for asylum? Most of these people aren't even from the districts of the country where much of this crime occurs. Puleeze! The majority of these murders are drug-related murders. If you want to reduce the murder rates south of the Border, then legalize the recreational drug trade in the US and bingo, all your narco-killers south of US are out of business and have no trade to protect.

Offering someone asylum because their country has a high murder rate would be like relocating people from the ghettos of Chicago to the Mayflower Hotel in DC to evade the high murder rate of Chicago! It's ridiculous! Besides, if you're evading narco-killers in Honduras, then it's because you're part of the narco business of Honduras.