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More than 70,000 South Americans missing in Mexico
Many are familiar with the illegal that crosses over the border from Mexico to the United States and the perils involved, but fewer know of those that cross two or three countries first. Regardless of how one feels personally about those who risk life and limb for the American dream, the numbers of South American people that have gone missing in Mexico is astounding.
A deadly mix of governmental corruption and cartel control of human smuggling/trafficking has taken a toll on those who use Mexico to cross over illegally to the United States. Since 2006,the numbers of missing are more than 70,000, a conservative number, and according to Amnistía Internacional y Human Rights Watch, they may be more like 120,000.
Cartels use illegal immigrants for forced labor, prostitution, and in other cases, as hostages for extorting their relatives in the United States. Often times they kill their victims after they have gotten everything they could from their relatives as opposed to just letting them go.
A deadly mix of governmental corruption and cartel control of human smuggling/trafficking has taken a toll on those who use Mexico to cross over illegally to the United States. Since 2006,the numbers of missing are more than 70,000, a conservative number, and according to Amnistía Internacional y Human Rights Watch, they may be more like 120,000.
Cartels use illegal immigrants for forced labor, prostitution, and in other cases, as hostages for extorting their relatives in the United States. Often times they kill their victims after they have gotten everything they could from their relatives as opposed to just letting them go.
