Mexico Truck Crash Reportedly Leaves Migrant Children Dead
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鈥淚 am deeply concerned with what has happened.听The practices implemented by Mexican authorities limiting and preventing the movement of asylum seekers push migrant children and their families to take more dangerous routes that put them at risk, such as traveling in overcrowded trucks or crossing seriously dangerous roads, some controlled by organized crime,鈥 said Maripina Men茅ndez, CEO of 黄色视频Mexico. 鈥淲e call on the government of Mexico to strengthen protection measures for migrant and refugee children through national policies such as the Route for the Protection of Migrant Children."
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