Immigrants Crossing Mexico Suffer a 'Holocaust' of Human Rights Violations: Report

A report written by the Documentation Network of Migrant Organizations (RDODM) said on Tuesday December 17 that 52 percent of immigrants illegally entering Mexico's southern border suffer robberies while 33 percent are extorted and are at risk of being kidnapped by organized crime.

According to EFE, during the presentation of a report titled "Narratives of Central American Transmigration" in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the NGO highlighted that the places where migrants suffer the most are Chiapas (a state bordering Guatemala) where 38 percent of the entire reports caem from in 2013; Veracruz, with 32 percent and Oaxaca and Tabasco with 6 percent each.

Likewise, the RDODM said in its report that from January to June in 2013, 21,000 people visited 7 immigrant houses distributed throughout seven Mexican states with Honduran, Salvadorian and Guatemalan migrants crossing Mexico's southern border the most.

Migrants Suffer a "Holocaust": Alejandro Solalinde

Priest Alejandro Solalinde Guerra, director of the "Hermanos en el Camino" shelter in Ixtepec, Oaxaca and one of the most prominent figures in the fight for immigrant rights in Mexico, said that migrants suffer a "holocaust" when they cross the Mexican border in their attempt to reach the American Dream.

According to Mexican magazine Proceso, Solalinde said that migrants live a "holocaust, because they're exposed to all types of violence as soon as they leave their countries and when they reach Mexico where approximately 10,000 immigrants are mission, a low figure compared to reality."

The report presented by Solalinde warns, based on immigrant testimonies, that "the Federal Police and Municipal Police are the authorities that violate the human rights of migrants the most."

The NGO stated that the first year of President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration not only meant a change in the migratory policies of Mexico, but that the migrant routes are still under control of organized crime, which represents one of the biggest risks for those willing to cross the dangerous route that would take them to the United States.