An NGO that closely works with migrants in Mexico’s Southern border is warning the public that three out of every ten migrants arriving from Central America have syphilis or other types of sexually transmitted diseases.
The revelation came this week when the group “Street Brigade in Support of Women Eliza Martinez” conducted free testing in Tapachula, Chiapas. This Mexican city borders Guatemala and is the primary way most migrants enter the country from the south.
The issue comes as the southern state of Chiapas continues to be a political hotspot as thousands of migrants continue to arrive each day with the intent of making their way north toward the U.S. border. As Breitbart Texas reported, Mexico’s government has been using the immigration debate as a way to negotiate with the U.S. government for additional sums of money and aid in exchange for helping slow down the flow of migrants. However, Mexican immigration officials have been widely demanding bribes from migrants in exchange for expediting travel documents or for selling them other documents. As Breitbart Texas reported, Mexican immigration agents routinely work with drug cartels who control the border and can extort migrants and collect travel fees under the threat of turning them over to cartel gunmen.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at [email protected].
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