Paola Ramos is a contributor to MSNBC and Noticias Telemundo and a host and reporter at VICE News.
Six weeks after a young asylum-seeker from El Salvador crossed into the U.S. from Mexico, she realized she was carrying a rape-related pregnancy. The woman — who like the other women interviewed for this article aren’t being identified for security reasons — said she was sexually assaulted by the Mexican cartel that was holding her hostage in the dangerous border town of Reynosa, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, just a few miles from the U.S. border.
“‘Then you’ll pay us with your body,’” the cartel replied, she said. NBC News couldn't corroborate her testimony, but three other migrants interviewed for this article described almost identical experiences. Throughout the years, organized crime groups have leveraged the long waiting periods migrants have been subjected to on the Mexican side of the border.
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