{"id":212535,"date":"2021-06-22T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/22\/migrants-mexico-us-title-42-human-rights-report"},"modified":"2021-06-22T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:15:13","slug":"migrants-turned-away-at-border-under-biden-face-shocking-abuse-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/22\/migrants-turned-away-at-border-under-biden-face-shocking-abuse-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants turned away at border under Biden face shocking abuse in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights First report records 3,300 incidents of kidnap, rape, trafficking or assault linked to Trump-era Title 42 health protocol<\/p><p>Nearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico since January due to a US border policy have been kidnapped, raped, trafficked or assaulted, according to a new report by the campaigning group Human Rights First.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/resource\/failure-protect-biden-administration-continues-illegal-trump-policy-block-and-expel-asylum\">report<\/a> documents cases of migrants and asylum seekers stuck in Mexico since Joe Biden took office on 20 January. The number of cases has jumped in recent weeks from roughly 500 such incidents logged in April to 3,300 by mid-June.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/21\/us-mexico-border-title-42\">Trump-era policy forces families to make life-altering decisions at US-Mexico border<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/22\/migrants-mexico-us-title-42-human-rights-report\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/22\/migrants-mexico-us-title-42-human-rights-report\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights First report records 3,300 incidents of kidnap, rape, trafficking or assault linked to Trump-era Title 42 health protocolNearly 3,300 migrants stranded in Mexico since January due to a US border policy have been kidnapped, raped, trafficke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1280,6,1018,242,1325,1315,1326,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212536,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212535\/revisions\/212536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}