administrators who run the shelter agree to speak, but ask me not to identify the place. “As you know,” they say, “the cartels are involved in all this.” They explain that there are two principal reasons why women decide to stay in these border towns. One is simply that they make more money than they could make in Central America, and after a month of being forced to dance or have sex, before they fall all the way into this life of darkness, vice, and vulnerability, they start to accept their situation, realizing how much money they’re sending back to their families. The second reason, the
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