John Washington Asylum seekers face competing miseries: violence at home, and a punitive detention system with a shard of hope for relief abroad. CATACAMAS, Honduras — In March 2012, after Ronal Rojas-Castro’s soccer team finished a game in a local tournament (which they lost), he and some teammates went to a pool hall for drinks. They were a few beers in when Ronal decided to go home. As he and a neighbor named El Chino made their way out, a local drug dealer known as Curamuerto (translated loosely to “the death priest”) showed up.