A ferry boat carrying goods and immigrants bound for Mexico and the United States crosses the Sachiata River almost directly beneath the formal border crossing bridge that joins Mexico and Guatemala.

Migration-Extortion Industry Targets Children Fleeing Violence at the Border

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 28, 2015

Sarah Stillman, New Yorker staff writer, discusses her latest article "Where Are the Children?” There is a lucrative migrant-extortion industry in the border regions of the United States and Mexico, where kidnappers are targeting the more than fifty thousand unaccompanied child migrants fleeing violence in Central America. 

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