“If we didn't pay, they were going to kill us.” The anguish of a migrant mother kidnapped by the Gulf cartel

A Honduran woman and her eight-year-old son were about to cross the Rio Grande when they were kidnapped in Reynosa. Her family paid a $12,000 ransom and they managed to reach the United States, but the U.S. government send them back to Mexico to wait while their asylum petition was processed.