As U.S. starts deportations, asylum-seekers face perils in Mexico

Central Americans who fled violence for refuge in the United States risk kidnapping or death under a new U.S. plan to deport them to murderous and cartel-wracked Mexican border cities while their asylum cases are processed.

The city of Reynosa, and a nearby stretch of the Rio Grande that divides Texas from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, is by far the busiest crossing point along the northern Mexican border for migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

But Reynosa is a wasteland of vandalized and abandoned homes in a state that is a key battlefield in Mexico’s . . .