20/04/2011. Following the report of the National Human Rights Commission that states that half of the country's states are a risk to immigrants, senators demanded that state governments assume their responsibility and implement actions to prevent further kidnappings, extortion and rape.
The CNDH identified 16 states, 71 municipalities and various road sections as red hotbeds of insecurity for migrants, so it demanded that the authorities increase surveillance
In addition, he asked the authorities to draw up a risk map identifying the routes and dangerous areas for migrant children, women and men seeking to reach the United States.
Fernando Batista, fifth visitor of the CNDH, explained that the conclusions of the Special Report on Kidnapping of Migrants in Mexico were obtained from testimonies of undocumented immigrants and data provided by the same authorities.
He explained that in many cases immigrants are tortured and in nine percent, public officials are in complicity with criminals.
"We have collected testimonies in what is narrated tortures migrants until they obtain the telephone number of their relatives in their country of origin or even in the United States, migrants who are commonly beaten with thick boards on the body, are forced on many occasions also to work for criminal gangs, they receive threats, we also have testimonies in which it is warned that criminal gangs exercise sexual violence to the detriment of women," Said.
The senator of the PRD, a leftist party, Rubén Velázquez said that so far there are isolated measures and the governors intend to wash their hands with the argument that it is a matter of federal competence, hence cases such as the 72 immigrants killed in Tamaulipas.
The Commission identified Baja California, Chiapas, Coahuila, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz as the most risky entities.
Source: voanews.com
