Nicaraguan migrant Meylin Obregon Leiva reappeared on Wednesday, April 14
th. Her brother affirmed on April 8th that she was in the hands of kidnappers, who were holding her for ransom in Mexico.
Meylin is the
coyotes in a desolate border region of the US, near the Rio Bravo in Texas. He had crossed the border illegally. The boy’s case went viral when a border patrol agent posted a video of the boy pleading for help. “I was with a group coming to turn themselves in, and they left me behind. I came here to ask for help,” the little boy exclaims tearfully in the video clip.
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In the eyes of the world, Wilton was a 10-year-old migrant from Nicaragua who had been abandoned in a Texas scrubland. A viral video that showed the crying child asking a US Border Patrol officer for help became a symbol of the first immigration crisis facing the administration of President Joe Biden.
But the story is part of a larger tragedy that began when Wilton and his mother fled their home to escape domestic abuse. The journey took them through the mountains of El Rama, in Nicaraguaâs southern Caribbean coast, and ended with a kidnapping in northern Mexico, near the US border.