In interviews, 61.9 percent of respondents said that they were exposed to a violent situation during the two years prior to leaving their home country. Nearly half of the interviewees (45.8 percent) cited their exposure to violence as a key reason for fleeing. More than 75 percent of people traveling with children reported leaving due to violence, including forced recruitment by gangs.
People also suffer from violence along the migration route through Mexico: 57.3 percent of the people interviewed were exposed to some type of violence, including cases of assault, extortion, sexual assaults, and torture.