“Among the thousands of women who will illegally cross into the United States this year from Mexico, some will be raped by the same men who demanded $1,500 to $2,000 for safe passage — their underpants often hung on a border fence as a trophy.

“I thought the wailings we heard at night were the coyotes barking at the moon,” said Tim Donnelly, who headed the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps border vigil here. “I didn’t know until later that those sounds were the cries of women being raped in the Mexican desert, some less than a hundred yards away from the border. “

-http://www.hispanictips.com/2005/11/21/women-who-cross-border-illegally-are-targets-for-rape/