Stories of the rape of women and girls by cartels and coyotes is tragically common, though the vast majority go unreported. In the same PBS report, a woman and her daughter who couldn’t keep up with their coyote were offered a deal: let him rape her daughter, and he would help them make it. The mother refused, and the coyote left them in the desert. The only reason she and her daughter survived was because they were found by Border Patrol.[51] In a report from May 2017, Doctors Without Borders found that nearly one in three immigrant women were sexually abused as they traveled through
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Yes, but those rapes don't fit the larger narrative. Those rapes didn't lead to increased power for Planned Parenthood. Those rapes made people question what "empathy" really means and is about. So the majority of people didn't hear much if anything about them.
