Melissa Del Bosque at Texas Observer: Detainees Beg to be Deported Anywhere but the Texas Border

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Nearly two-dozen detainees in the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico are begging the United States government to deport them anywhere but the Texas-Mexico border where the brutal Zeta cartel is kidnapping and killing immigrants with impunity.

The migrants in detention sent letters this week asking for help from the nonprofit humanitarian group No More Deaths. The letters caught the attention of the New Mexico chapter of the ACLU, which is trying to assist the migrants.

In a letter written by detainees in English with the opening line “Please save us!” three detainees say a Mexican man who was transferred to their unit told them a terrifying tale of how he was kidnapped and held for ransom by the Zetas after being deported in Tamaulipas. The city is not named in the letter but it is most likely Reynosa across from McAllen or Matamoros, which neighbors Brownsville, since the majority of deportees are released in these two cities in Tamaulipas.

The detainee told the men at the detention center that he was picked up by a city policeman after crossing into Mexico. The policeman drove him to a safe house run by Los Zetas where he was blindfolded and held for ransom. Those who couldn’t pay were killed. This man’s family was able to pay the ransom so he was let go after a beating. “We do not want to meet the same fate as this unfortunate group,” the detainees write in the letter.

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