By Christine MurrayMEXICO CITY, Feb 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Central American migrants are being kidnapped, raped and trafficked in Mexico as they seek to enter the United States amid a migration crackdown, a medical charity said on Tuesday. “They’re treated as if they aren’t really people,” Sergio Martin, Mexico coordinator for MSF, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In September, 18 of 41 patients in Nuevo Laredo who had been sent back to Mexico to wait for U.S. asylum processing told MSF they had recently been kidnapped. Almost one in four female migrants told MSF they had experienced sexual violence on their journeys. The MSF data was based on some 26,000 health consultations with migrants in 2018 and 2019, testimonials and a survey.

Source: National Post February 11, 2020 17:37 UTC