Mothers of Missing Central American Migrants Arrive in San Luis Potosi Prensa Latina
go to original October 22, 2012

A hotel for deported migrants at a Mexican border town sees hundreds of people seek refuge there every day. A recent wave of kidnappings and extortions by gangs targeting deported migrants has alarmed residents at the hotel. They are calling on authorities to do more to protect them. Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports from Mexicali, the capital of the Mexican state of Baja California. (AlJazeeraEnglish)

The caravan of mothers of Central American migrants who disappeared during their trip to the United States, arrived on Monday to the state of San Luis Potosi in a tour through Mexico in search of their families. These women came from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

During their stay this weekend in Saltillo, capital of Coahuila, they showed photos of their children in the central Plaza de Armas, where neighbors affirmed they had seen some of them in that city.

In previous days, two of the Honduran Silveria Campos and Olga Hernandez, were reunited with their descendants in Tabasco and Texas, respectively.

They hold meetings with government officials and civil society, as well as visiting shelters, prisons, hospitals, public squares and other places in the hope of finding their loved ones.

During their tour through the Mexican territory the migrants are often victims of robberies, extortion, kidnapping and even massacres carried out by criminal gangs and corrupt local authorities.

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