‘I don’t feel safe’: Migrants face attacks, threats in Mexico

New report finds 492 attacks against migrants stuck at US-Mexico border or expelled from US to Mexico since January 21.

“Every time I see my daughters suffering here, I feel a lump in my throat. I cry during the nights.” That is how a mother from Honduras describes her life in Piedras Negras, a Mexican city across the border from the US state of Texas, after she was expelled from the United States last month with her two- and seven-year-old daughters and other members of her family. Members of a gang she had testified against in Honduras tracked her to Mexico, she said, fuelling fears of violence. A family from El Salvador that was attacked in Mexico by a gang that had threatened to kill them in their home country, also was sent back from the US-Mexico border to Tijuana in February. “I don’t feel safe. I’m so afraid. It’s a dangerous place,” said the father, who added he recently witnessed a kidnapping while waiting for the bus.