By Lydia Cacho, New America Media

Editor's Note: As more Mexican cities start to look like Ciudad Juárez, where kidnappings and femicide are becoming commonplace, some families are choosing to flee the country to save their daughters. Lydia Cacho Ribeiro is an acclaimed Mexican journalist and advocate for women's rights. She is the director of Ciamcancun.org, a shelter for battered women and children.

CANCUN, Mexico - A few weeks ago in Tijuana, three families told me that for the last few months they have been living in San Diego. They moved to the United States because one of their children was the victim of a kidnapping in Mexico. (They crossed the border back into Mexico to hear me give a reading from my book.)

READ MORE: http://www.alternet.org/immigration/100819/mexican_violence_forcing_families_to_migrate/

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