Migrants’ fingers, ears cut off if they can’t pay cartels: report
By MaryAnn Martinez
May 22, 2023 7:54pm
Migrants waiting to get into the US who don’t have money to pay cartels’ ransoms can get fingers and ears chopped off, a shelter volunteer working near a Texas border city has claimed.
The revelation reported by NBC News highlighted the dangers faced by migrants on the border, who have decided against crossing into the US since Title 42 ended May 11 when the US government said it would apply penalties to those who cross without the relevant paperwork.
As Title 42 ended Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz claimed there were 60,000 migrants in the “immediate border area” on the Mexican side waiting to cross into the US.
Cartels have resumed their tactic of kidnapping migrants from Central and South America who are waiting in Mexican cities for their chance to cross into the US and holding them ransom.
“Every day is worse; everyone is afraid to leave,” the volunteer at the shelter in Reynosa, Mexico told NBC.
Earlier this month 49 migrants, including 11 children, were kidnapped off a bus as they passed through the city of Monterrey but were later rescued by the Mexican army.
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