More Central American women immigrating to US

In order to improve their living conditions, more and more women are leaving their native Guatemala to cross through Mexico and go on to the United States as illegal workers. While there are no exact figures for the number of women going north from the Central American republic, the independent Center for Legal Action on Human Rights (CALDH) has undertaken a study in 78 localities that appears to confirm the phenomenon. According to CALDH, dozens of women are traveling illegally to the United States without regard to risks such as rape and murder. These female immigrants face rape and assaults by police authorities and criminal gangs along the way north, as well as the vagaries of terrain and weather in the US/Mexico border region. Scores have died in the last decade while crossing the deserts along the Tortilla Curtain between the US and Mexico.”*

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