‘Handcuffed like we’re criminals’: Ohio teen soccer star recounts deportation

Emerson Colindres reflects on traumatizing' ordeal after Ice sent him to Honduras despite having no criminal record

The Ohio high school graduate and soccer standout who was recently deported from the US to Honduras despite having no arrest record has described being handcuffed like we're some big criminals" for the entirety of his deportation flight.

To me, it was kind of more traumatizing because I haven't been to my birth country in years," Emerson Colindres, 19, who was brought from Honduras to the US by his family at age eight, said to the Cincinnati news station WCPO in an interview over the weekend.