“In 2024 there was a record of 665 women and girls who placed a complaint for trafficking. That is, they went to the Prosecutor’s Office and made a complaint. We know that behind a complaint, of a investigation folder for trafficking, There may be many others“, The representative of the Women’s Table Network, Yadira Cortés, told Efe.
The activist, who described the situation as “alarming”, explained that the increase in complaints has coincided with the population growth in transitbecause the border Ciudad Juárez It is one of the main points on the immigration route to the United States.
“We believe that victims can be mainly, But of course we do not doubt that they are also people, womengirls from the city itself, ”he said.
Among the first places of trafficking
The alert grows after Alejandro Carrasco, president of the CEDH, warned the ‘Diario de Juárez’ at the beginning of March that this city is “One of the cities in which people trafficking most is”there are cases of alleged sale of girls and the incidence is “at the same level” as beaches such as Cancun or Puerto Vallarta.
In addition, the state of Chihuahua, where is Ciudad Juárez, occupies second place at the national level in child sexual violence, With a sustained trend of 1 thousand to 1,200 cases per yearaccording to a report from the Northern Border College (Colef) of 2024.
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