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Immigration to the United States: at the border, many Mexicans try to flee cartel violence
Immigration to the United States: at the border, many Mexicans try to flee cartel violence
(franceinfo)
In Tijuana, Mexico, many Mexicans attempting to emigrate are denied access to the United States. A good number of them have resigned themselves to fleeing because of the violence of the cartels, which are rampant in several states of the country.
Many Mexicans are trying to migrate to the United States. The majority of them are nevertheless turned back. In Tijuana, Mexico, near the world’s busiest border crossing, those who failed to enter the United States are found in migrant reception centers. Juan fled the violence of Mexican cartels. “I ran away because one day I was kidnapped. I went shopping. Men from the Tlacos gang took me to their leader (…). He told me he wanted me to work for him, otherwise he would take my children“, he testifies.
Gangs linked to drug cartels are causing a reign of terror in many Mexican states. “The cartel in my area wanted to kidnap one of my girls, because a boy in the gang liked her. The first time he saw her at a village festival, he said: ‘She must be at moi.’ The day she should have been taken away, so we left our house“, says Elena. Others say they were hit with machetes.
