Survey respondents indicate near universal experience with extortion in travels to the U.S. southern border, which can help inform mental health treatment, other services
https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/researchers-identify-another-common-and-harmful-experience-among-latinx-immigrants-traveling-to-the-us-extortion?utm_campaign=latinx&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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The study finds that the most common perpetrators were police officers (80.6%) and immigration officials (37.3%), followed by narcotraffickers or gangs (25.4%) and the military (20.9%). Most extortion experiences occurred in Mexico (77.6%) and Guatemala (67.2%), followed by other transit countries such as Colombia (22.4%) and Nicaragua (20.9%).
>Latinx immigrant adults traveling to the United States are extorted on average $804 per research participant throughout journey,
This a terrible piece of “sloppy for the sake of being gender neutral” phrasing. “Immigrant adults from Latin America” would have covered it, without using a term that in being gender inclusive is exclusive of indigenous south and central americans.
We Irish grumble about people including Ireland as part of the “British Isles”, but it’s nowhere near as offensive as calling us British.