LGBTQ activists in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley have rallied behind two brothers who are victims of human trafficking. The brothers, who fled violence in their country of origin, were kidnapped by human traffickers in Mexico in August.
Cindy Candia, a volunteer with Angry Tias and Abuelas, a group that assists migrants and asylum seekers in the Rio Grande Valley, previously ran a local PFLAG chapter with her husband.
She told the Washington Blade on Monday the traffickers forced the brothers into the trunk of a car with two other men and drove them across the Rio Grande and into the U.S., even though the border remains closed to non-essential travel because of the coronavirus pandemic.