Mexico officials abused 47% of migrants awaiting US asylum, rights group says
Nearly half of asylum-seekers returned to Mexico under the “Remain in Mexico” program to await a U.S. immigration court hearing said they’d been abused by local officials, according to a Human Rights First report released Thursday.
The U.S.-based human rights organization reviewed 2,688 interviews of asylum-seekers conducted between January and August. Most of the migrants were from Latin America, and 47% said they’d been robbed or extorted by Mexican government officials, including immigration agents and security forces.
