How Many Foreigners Are Killed In Mexico? Country Ordered To Release Figures From 2000 To 2013

Mexico's Attorney General has been instructed to release the figures on the number of foreigners gunned down in Mexico from 2000 to 2013, according to the Institute for Access to Federal Information (IFAI). The order from the independent agency was made after the AG's office refused to provide these figures because they were supposedly "nonexistent." Migrant workers, particularly those travelling through Mexico from South America, have been among the biggest casualties of Mexico's drug war.

The IFAI rvealed that a woman seeking information on the deaths of foreigners was told to make her request elsewhere. "The woman making the request was unhappy and filed a request for review with the IFAI, citing the various cooperation agreements signed by AG's office officials and the forensic anthropology team that committed the agency to release information about the migrants found in mass graves in Tamaulipas and Nuevo León" states, the IFAI said in a statement.

Thousands of migrants from Central and South Amercia travel through Mexico each year to try and enter the United States. Many of these migrant workers fall prety to corrupt officials and drug cartels seeking to exploit cheap labor. Gangs often kidnap and murder migrants who are often torgeted by extortion schemes. The IFAI said that the information must be provided "by year, gender, nationality and age from the year 2000 to Oct. 7, 2013."