Women immigrants risk everything to cross the U.S.-Mexico border

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Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
By Lauren Gilger, Lisa Ruhl
and Rebekah Zemansky
Cronkite News21

Women who immigrate illegally to the United States pass through a gauntlet of smugglers, abusers, kidnappers, rapists and murderers. In spite of the dangers, tens of thousands make the trip each year. Many become victims of crime. Some find themselves in federal detention. Others disappear and are never heard from again.

This report by Arizona State University’s News21 incubator looks at women who risk everything to enter the United States.