In 2014, a record 90,000 unaccompanied minors made the treacherous journey from Central America to the United States. Far beyond an immigration story, this is a refugee crisis. No longer are people simply fleeing poverty and lack of opportunity, now they are fleeing for their lives. In “Why They Flee,” a collaboration with the New York Times, our story begins in San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras, and the current murder capital of the World. This is where most of the kids are coming from. Largely controlled by drug cartels, the citizens of San Pedro Sula are forced to pay the gangs daily “war taxes” — essentially a cut of their wages, or remittances from family in the United States. Young people fleeing Honduras say that you pay the ‘war tax’, you join the gang, or you most likely die. It is not surprising that hundreds of young people attempt to flee this chaos every day, embarking on a long and dangerous journey that we trace across three countries and thousands of miles. If they are lucky and make it to the United States, most of the kids will turn themselves into border patrol and seek Asylum in the US.