Opinion 51

Migrant girls

Migrant girls pay dearly for the crossing. They are the most vulnerable.

By Gabriela Sotomayor

"They kept staring at her. They wouldn't take their eyes off her, I wanted to hide my little girl who was becoming a woman (...) and one night those wretched bastards raped her again and again until they got tired, they left her lying in the middle of the road, she almost died, that day I fell asleep like a rock, I was mopping and cleaning toilets all day, I didn't notice when they took her away'', the mother of a migrant girl told me, wrapped in tears and with her eyes spitting rage. A story that repeats itself over and over again with other girls, other mothers, other unfortunates, other circumstances. Migrant girls pay dearly for the crossing. They are the most vulnerable.

In addition to the 40 men who burned to death in government custody in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, at least 1,600 people, including minors, lost their lives during their journey through Mexican territory on their way to the United States. Regarding this scourge, the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico accuses that "Mexico's immigration policy is inhumane, no borders have been set, it maintains a system of arbitrary, systematic and rights-violating detention. The migration policy in Mexico kills".

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