‘The cruelty is staggering:’ U.S. deports migrants using coronavirus public health powers But few visitors to the city suspected that some of the kids doing the selling had been snatched from their families and kept in deplorable conditions.The Chiapas state prosecutors’ office said in a statement that the children “were forced through physical and psychological violence to sell handicrafts in the centre of the city,” adding the kids showed signs of “malnutrition and precarious conditions.”“According to the children, many of them were forced to go out on the streets to sell things, and moreover they were forced to return with a certain minimum amount of money for the right to get food and a place to sleep at the house,” said state.