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Resources are scarce to assist people who have experienced or witnessed violence

“We saw many dead, we saw people who were robbed, people who were raped. We saw that,” she repeated, her voice cracking, in a migrant shelter in El Paso a few days before Christmas.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Doctors, social workers, shelter directors, clergy and law enforcement say growing numbers of migrants suffer violence that amounts to torture and are arriving at the U.S.-Mexican border in desperate need of trauma-informed medical and mental health treatment. But resources for this specialized care are so scarce, and the network of shelters so overwhelmed by new arrivals and migrants who've been stuck for months by U.S. asylum policies, that only the most severe cases can be handled.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Since he began volunteering two months ago for weekend shifts at a clinic in one of this border city's largest shelters, Dr. B

Illegal migrants crossing the U.S. southern border show signs of "worsening trauma," the Associated Press reported, including witnessing murders and experiencing kidnappings and sexual assault.