"The same coyotes have raped them," says Leonel Dubón of El Refugio de la Niñez, about immigrant girls | Video | CNN

Leonel Dubón, executive director of El Refugio de la Niñez, talks about the risks faced by minors who cross the southern border of the US alone Dubón says that many girls have been raped by so-called coyotes on the way through Mexico and others they disappear ending up in the hands of criminals.

And he warns parents that these coyotes are not his friends.

Most of the children who cross the border alone come from Guatemala, according to US figures for fiscal year 2020.