Border Dispatch, Part II: ‘The Cartel Controls Everything Here Now’
BY: JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON
JUNE 21, 2022
The ongoing border crisis has transformed illegal immigration into an industrial-scale international smuggling black market.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico — It’s easy to find gut-wrenching stories at the border. Ask almost any migrant you meet in northern Mexico and you’ll hear about the violence and hardships they endured to get as far as they have.
Alba Luz Perdomo, for example, fled Honduras with her husband and 13-year-old daughter after a gang killed her brother and threatened to kill them too. But that was just the beginning of their troubles.
They were forced to leave a farm where they had been working in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco by locals who told them foreigners weren’t welcome. In Monterrey, Perdomo’s daughter was nearly abducted by their landlord. They sought help from a man claiming to be a pastor in Matamoros, but who turned out to be a human trafficker and kept the family in his house for 20 days before they managed to escape.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/21/border-dispatch-part-ii-the-cartel-controls-everything-here-now/
