Independent voices from the TWT Communities

Migrants in search of jobs in the U.S. face a gantlet of life-or-death risks in their treks across Mexico from its southern border: Many fall prey to extortion, kidnapping, rape and killing by crooked police and criminal gangs.

A car exploded early Friday in front of the offices of a major Mexican television station in a northern state where officials are investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants.
"This amounts to doing the dirty work for the United States," he said. "As a result, the wall is not really on the Rio Grande River. The wall is much farther south."