Salvadoran man murdered in Mexico waiting U.S. asylum hearing
Source: Associated Press
DECEMBER 12, 2019 / 9:53 PM / UPDATED 24 MINUTES AGO
David Alire Garcia
3 MIN READ
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Salvadoran man seeking asylum in the United States was kidnapped and murdered in the Mexican border city of Tijuana where he was sent to wait for his asylum court hearing under a migrant protection programme instated by President Donald Trump.
Critics of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) have argued that the migrants affected by the initiative, mostly from the impoverished and violence-plagued countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, are at risk in Mexico.
“They sent us back. We said Tijuana was really dangerous, there was a lot of crime but they didn’t listen to us. They said that they couldn’t do anything because those were Trump’s orders,” the man’s widow said.
The widow and her lawyer asked for her and her husband’s name to remain anonymous for security reasons.
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