NBC By Annie Rose Ramos 11/11/2018
MEXICO CITY — The last time Rosa Jiménez spoke to her son Roberto was the morning of May 28, 2013.
“Mami, I’m going to cross the border now,†he called to tell her. He was 14 at the time.
Jiménez, who is from El Salvador, had asked relatives in the United States for much of the $8,000 she paid a coyote to help her son cross the border from Mexico into Texas. Roberto was being pursued by a local gang in El Salvador that wanted him as a member, and Jiménez hoped he would be safer and have more opportunities in the U.S.
Jiménez hasn’t heard from Roberto since that phone call more than five years ago.
As thousands of migrants arrived in Mexico City this week, inching their way closer to the U.S. border, Jiménez was part of a smaller caravan crossing Mexico.
But this caravan has no intention of coming to the U.S. Their purpose is to warn people about the danger of trying to cross the border.
They call themselves the Caravan of Mothers of Disappeared Migrants.
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