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Migrants live in fear at Mexico-U.S. border as violence flares

By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Sal-
vadoran woman seeking
asylum in the United States
spends her days holed up
in her cousin's cramped
slum house just across the
border in Mexico — too
scared to leave after re-
ceiving a savage beating
from two men three weeks
ago while she was strolling
home from a convenience
store.
The assault came after she
spent four months in cap-
tivity in Mexico, kidnapped
into prostitution during her
journey toward the U.S.
The woman, 31, is among
55,000 migrants who have
been returned to Mexico
by the Trump administra-
tion to wait for their cases to
wind through backlogged
immigration courts. Her
situation offers a glimpse
into some of the program's
problems.
In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, photo, Lizbeth poses for a portrait in a relative's home behind a page from her court documents in
Tijuana, Mexico.
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