Migrants waiting for their asylum cases to be heard in the US say they face kidnapping and other violence on the streets of the Mexican border towns where they are staying
Maximo, an asylum seeker, fled his native Honduras with his son to seek a new life in the United States.
But while waiting for their cases to be heard he says they have practically become prisoners in a shelter for migrants in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo, where cartels prey on migrants who venture out into the streets. He and his son were nearly kidnapped, he says."We are alone and only God's hand has kept us safe from the constant danger that surges in this country," he wrote in a letter."We don't intend to cause any harm to the United States.
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