How does this make you feel about Mexico Migrants forced to be sex slaves in Mexico?
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AFP) – Locals call them "merchandise" and that is how criminal gangs treat the Central American youths they force into prostitution near Mexico's southern border with Guatemala. Victims recount being tricked into making the dangerous journey across Central America in the hope of a better life before being stopped en route in southern Mexico and forced to work for nothing. The Honduran consul in Mexico's southern Chiapas state, Patricia Villamil, alerted local authorities to several cases when she took on her job last November. When they failed to respond, she spoke out. "They bring women from Honduras, preferably under 18," said Villamil, who has already recorded a dozen cases of minors between 14 and 17 years old being forced into prostitution. "They steal their innocence. They hit them, mistreat them, humiliate and rape them," she said. Witness accounts map out a route starting in the poor communities of Honduras, passing through Guatemala before crossing the border into Mexico. The girls are then distributed among several dozen bars and brothels in Chiapas, which are each thought to employ between eight and 14 foreigners. A 17-year-old Honduran who gave her name as Valeria ended up in Mexico after following that well-worn route, on the promise of a free journey and a job in a restaurant in Mexico from a woman in her village. The single mother travelled with a friend and four other minors -- those who are most in demand by pimps at the border. Valeria eventually arrived at a sordid bar in Mexico where she forced herself to drink 17 beers to give her courage to face clients on her first night as a prostitute. "I had to 'deal with it' every time a client wanted it. It was six or seven times almost every day. Once it was 12 times," she told AFP. The owner of the bar demanded 5,000 pesos (430 dollars) for the journey. Another bar owner eventually paid the debt, but forced her to work for him in return. After four months' of work, with up to 16-hour days, she has not yet received any money. "Generally they don't pay minors. They give them food and clothes and build up new debts for them," said Enrique Mendez, the prosecutor in charge of crimes against immigrants in Chiapas state. Mendez denied that organized criminal groups were operating in the area, and said most girls arrived independently in Chiapas, on a route taken by hundreds of thousands of migrants hoping to reach the United States each year. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mexicocrimeprostitutionchild;_ylt=AnHwZD.tTz7wK4b6mB8exaes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTQxamdlYzV0BGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDExMDQyNS9tZXhpY29jcmltZXByb3N0aXR1dGlvbmNoaWxkBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDNARwb3MDMQRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA21pZ3JhbnRzZm9yYw--
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it makes me think that mexico should do something about this problem..
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I think that could be a story made up to obtain sympathy for refugee status in the United States.
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that's sad, they really need to crack down on these criminals that take advantage of poor innocent girls that look for a better future to get treated lower than dirt
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Write you El Presidente since we have enough problem with your illegal Mexicans ruining our country.
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It is a disturbing fact that Obama allows Filipe Calderon to dictate US immigration policy and invited him to address congress for the purpose of influencing them on how to vote on bills that directly or indirectly affect Mexicans. Who cares about a few hundred Hondurans, so long as Illegal Mexicans are well treated. Mexico administers a " Do as I say, not as I do" policy when referring to their own Illegals. Mexico is too busy minding America's business and will stay immersed in successfully controlling the Obama Administration to see their own hypocrisy. Obama and Janet Napolitano say whatever appeases the American people while encouraging illegal immigration and protecting Illegals by giving all of them diplomatic immunity. Honduran slave trade is not the concern of Obama. He is dedicating his presidency on favoring Mexicans above all others.
