In a Mexican border camp, asylum seekers wait for Biden to end Trump health directive


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  • Tuesday, 22 Jun 2021

An asylum-seeking migrant, who was apprehended and returned to Mexico under Title 42 after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S., rests in a public square where hundreds of migrants live in tents, in Reynosa, Mexico June 10, 2021. Picture taken June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

REYNOSA, Mexico (Reuters) -When Salvadoran asylum seeker Liset Ortiz was kidnapped in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on her way to the United States, a kidnapper found the police report she was carrying as proof of the death threats she says she received in El Salvador for being a lesbian.

So he dragged her away from her 8-year-old son - who was from a previous marriage before she came out as lesbian - and raped her, she said. "He told me that he'd show me he was better than a woman," Ortiz recounted.

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