Kidnappers prey with `total impunity´ on migrants waiting for hearings in Mexico
(The Guardian Mexico)

Report finds 80% of migrants waiting have been abducted by the mafia and 45% have suffered violence or violationA score or so migrants crouch in the dark corridor of the safe house where they have been waiting for a month. Today, their turn has come to go back on the road again - not across the US border, however, but deeper into Mexico, to save their skins.Outside, a minivan pulls up, driven by Baptist pastor Lorenzo Ortíz to take the migrants to relative safety, and away from kidnap, extortion and violation. Related: Remain in Mexico: 80% of migrants in Trump policy are victims of violence Related: Inside Trump`s tent immigration courts that turn away thousands of asylum seekers Related: Trump`s `shameful` migrant stance condemns thousands to violent limbo in Mexico Continue reading...