An astonishingly high rate of female migrants from Central America are being raped by members of the Mexican cartels and transnational gangs as they travel through Mexico to the United States. A Fusion investigation estimated 80% of migrant girls and women are raped on their journey. Now, Republican senators who visited the U.S.-Mexican border last week are drawing attention to a phenomenon called the “rape tree” to illustrate the failure of President Biden’s immigration policies. “We heard multiple reports of something, I’ll be candid, I had never heard of before until today — something called a rape tree, which are trees where the traffickers would violently rape young women and then hang their undergarments in the tree as a trophy,” Cruz said at a news conference Friday… (READ MORE)

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