And You Think Arizona, Texas Immigration Crackdowns Are Bad

In Mexico last year, a total of 11,333 migrants from Central and South America were kidnapped in 214 separate incidents over a 6-month period (an average of 52 per incident). According to the report by Mexico's Commission on Human Rights, most of the kidnappings happened in southern Mexico, affecting migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. About one in nine of the migrants interviewed said that authorities colluded with the kidnappers during the incidents. Victims are tortured until they give up the phone number of a relative in their home country or the United States, and then ransomed or killed outright.