Amid increased pressure from the U.S. to prevent migrants from reaching its southern border, but lacking the funds to deport them, Mexican authorities are employing a simple but harsh tactic: wearing migrants out until they give up.
Border Report described the experience of Yeneska Garcia, a Venezuelan migrant. The 23-year-old crossed the Darien Gap jungle dividing Colombia and Panama, narrowly survived being kidnapped by a Mexican cartel only to wait months for an asylum appointment with the United States that never came.
