A new report found that asylum seekers, largely from Central America, are facing potentially dangerous and unlivable conditions in Mexico after being returned there to await immigration proceedings under the Trump administrations remain in Mexico policy.

The Human Rights Watch report , released Tuesday, was based on more than 20 in-depth interviews with asylum seekers in early May largely in Ciudad Jurez, across the border from El Paso, Texas as well as immigration court hearings for dozens more asylum seekers, and interviews with U.S. and Mexican government officials, activists and attorneys.

Human Rights Watch said it had learned of serious harms to asylum seekers in Ciudad Jurez, including sexual assault, kidnapping and other violence, according to a news release.

Other advocates have previously raised concerns about the dangerous conditions in border cities such as Tijuana and Ciudad Jurez, where more asylum seekers will now have to wait.

The report detailed experiences of asylum seekers who had been returned to Mexico under the Trump administrations recent remain in Mexico policy, which has forced thousands who are looking for safety in the U.S. to wait in Mexico as their claims are processed.

Some have faced homelessness as a shortage of shelters in Ciudad Jurez has meant that those who couldnt afford a hotel room or to rent a place have had to sleep in the streets, in churches or in abandoned homes.

There are times when we either eat or pay for the hotel room, said one asylum seeker, Luisa A. (asylum seekers names have been changed for pseudonyms in the report, out of concern for their safety). She and her 3-year-old son were staying in a shelter when they left to attend a preliminary immigration hearing, only to be told theyd lost their spot when they returned. They slept in the street until she was able to pool money with other women to pay for a low-cost hotel.

Another asylum seeker 20-year-old Delfina M. from Guatemala was returned with her 4-year-old son to Ciudad Jurez. She said once there, two men grabbed her in the street and sexually assaulted her, telling her not to scream or theyd kill her son. She told researchers: I can still feel the dirtiness of what they did in my body.

One 23-year-old asylum seeker from Honduras, Kimberlyn, said a taxi driver kidnapped her and her 5-year-old daughter after they were returned to Ciudad Jurez after an initial court hearing in the U.S. in April. The driver, who released them within hours, said he would kill them if her family did not pay an $800 ransom which they did, according to deposit receipts shown to researchers.

The U.S. government has advanced a dangerous fiction that asylum seekers returned to Mexico will have access to work and shelter and a fair chance in U.S. immigration courts, Human Rights Watch researcher and report co-author Clara Long said in a news release. Instead, U.S. border officials are stranding mothers with small children and other vulnerable migrants in Mexican border cities where their safety and security are at risk.