“How many days have you gone without food?” she asks into the phone.
Tani, her younger sister, is heard sobbing. “Help me,” she gets out.
Cruz Caceres assures her: “I am going to pay today. I’ll make another deposit.”
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The April 1 call ends abruptly, and Cruz Caceres stops recording.
A week before the recording, Cruz Caceres, a single mother from Honduras who won asylum in Tennessee, had gotten another call that upended her already precarious life: Kidnappers in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, had abducted her pregnant sister Tani and Tani’s 4-year-old son, and they wanted more than $20,000, according to a video recording of the call and messages reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. The family asked The Times not to use her sister’s last name, for fear of retribution from the kidnappers in Mexico and gangs back home.
Biden Title 42 policy fuels migrant family kidnappings at border, extortion in U S
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Biden Title 42 policy fuels migrant family kidnappings at border, extortion in U S
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April 20, 2021
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WASHINGTON Asylum seekers continue to face grave danger at the southern border as the Biden administration extends the Trump administration’s misuse of Title 42 public health authority to illegally deny protection to asylum seekers, according to a report from Human Rights First, Haitian Bridge Alliance and Al Otro Lado.
The report,
: Biden Administration Continues Illegal Trump Policy to Block and Expel Asylum Seekers to Danger, details how the Biden administration’s use of the illegal expulsion policy endangers children, drives family separations and illegally returns asylum seekers to danger – including Black and LGBTQ refugees forced to endure bias-motivated violence. The policy creates disorder, pushes crossings between ports of entry, and threatens the health and safety of asylum seekers and migrants.