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Is the child migrant crisis a rape and trafficking crisis?
The situation at the US/Mexico border – where more than 1,000 refugee children are arriving every week – has been called many things. A humanitarian crisis. The direct result of the illegal drug trade. A symptom of our broken immigration system.
In this week's edition of The New Republic, Anne K. Ream, founder of The Voices and Faces Project and Mónica Ramírez, an expert on sexual violence committed against farmworker and immigrant women, argue that there is another cause of this crisis: gender-related violence and trafficking in Latin America.
As Anne noted, "We went into the writing of this piece believing that rape and sexual exploitation were major drivers of immigration to the US from Latin America. But the stories of survivors, and reports from aid workers in the field, made this crisis feel even more urgent for us."
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