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VICE World News obtained footage of a kidnapping on the U.S.-Mexico border that shows two political asylum seekers from Cuba pleading for their lives as kidnappers in Mexico repeatedly threaten to kill them if their family members don’t pay a ransom. The video gives a rare look at the shocking brutality of the migrant kidnapping crisis in Mexico, where thousands of people are victimized every year.