Mexico begins repatriation of 7,000 C American undocumented

**zeezil** · 08-25-2007, 04:07 PM

Mexico begins repatriation of 7,000 C American undocumented immigrants

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 541353.htm
www.chinaview.cn 2007-08-16 09:59:10 Print

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Mexico has begun the repatriation of some 7,000 Central American undocumented immigrants, mostly to Honduras and Guatemala, local newspaper Sol de Mexico quoted government officials as saying on Wednesday.

The Central Americans were stranded in the southeastern states of Tabasco and Chiapas after a regional train service suspended operations in late July.

They were arrested while walking along the railroad line to the eastern coastal state of Veracruz, 400 km away, from where they hoped to board a train bound for the Untied States.

The first batch of 350 migrants have arrived in Mexico's southern border city of Tapachula, from where they will be transferred to Guatemala on Tuesday night.

Hundreds of such illegal immigrants enter Mexico through its southern border every day, hoping to cross the country and enter the United States in search of a better life.
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178 undocumented Central Americans detained in Mexico

www.chinaview.cn 2007-08-25 11:03:51

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A total of 178 Central American illegal immigrants were discovered and detained when traveling in a truck in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said on Friday.

The immigrants were traveling hidden in the truck's false-bottom refrigeration box, which was pretending to transport lemons, the INM was quoted by the press as saying.

The arrested immigrants include 78 Guatemalans, 58 Salvadorans and 42 Hondurans, among which 42 are women and seven are minors. They all lacked official papers to reside in Mexico, INM officials said.

The truck driver has been arrested and accused of people-trafficking.

So far in 2007, over 10,000 people have been smuggled into Mexico across the Guatemalan border, according to INM statistics.

**sippy** · 08-25-2007, 04:40 PM

Well well, you mean mexico gets to enforce their immigration laws without feedback but we can't eh? You just gotta love the hypocrasy of the mexican government. Don't they realize they will be breaking up families? HOW DARE THEY ENFORCE THEIR OWN LAWS!!! :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

**SOSADFORUS** · 08-25-2007, 04:50 PM

8O I think they might have some racist bigots down there in Mexico 8O

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**zeezil** · 08-25-2007, 04:58 PM

Isn't this tearing familes apart? Where's the Mexican Civil Liberties Union in all of this tradgedy? Can't these illegals get church sanctuary? Where's La Raza and La Voz Atzlan? Aren't the Guatemalan and Honduran consulates protesting this inhuman treatment? How are the Mexican crops going to get picked and how are the tortillas and burritos going to be made? Won't costs go up without the Guats and Hondos providing ultra-cheap labor? How are the jobs that Mexicans won't do gonna get done now?
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**AngryTX** · 08-25-2007, 05:21 PM

We should demand that el presidente Jorge Boosh send a letter to mejico's president condemming them of their actions!!

**SOSADFORUS** · 08-25-2007, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by AngryTX

We should demand that el presidente Jorge Boosh send a letter to mejico's president condemming them of their actions!!

BRILLIANT IDEA !! "Angry", maybe Bush would see how stupid Mexico looks when they do this sort of thing :roll: Or maybe we better not as Bush might tell them to deliver them to our southern border and let them go there 8O

**fedupDeb** · 08-25-2007, 06:42 PM

Since the Mexican government is sending 7,000 back to their countries, the U.S. should be sending at least 7,000 Mexicans back to their country.

Interesting how Mexico "repatriates" while the evil U.S. "deports."

**PhredE** · 08-25-2007, 06:53 PM

Gee whiz, consider the relative scale of the numbers mentioned here:

7,000 (which, we assume have been detained in the system for some while...)

While our CBP easily catch and detain that number in less than 1 week - and that, sidesteps the fact that for every 1 that is caught, about 2 sneak on by.

**Jean** · 09-09-2007, 12:53 AM

Mexico's two border strategy
07 September 2007

Like their US counterparts, the Mexican authorities have been cracking down on illegal immigration in recent weeks. In mid-August, a joint operation comprising federal and state police officials, as well as military personnel, was launched in the southern state of Tabasco, bordering Guatemala.

The aim of the operation was to locate and repatriate illegal immigrants, many of whom travel from other Central American countries and pass through Tabasco on their way to their final destination: Mexico's northern border with the US. The operation was partially successful; 350 illegal immigrants were deported and a further 144 were detained by the police.

The figure of 350 repatriations is somewhat low, given that Tabasco has become an immigration bottleneck since late July. On 29 July, the rail company Genesee & Wyoming ceased services on its route from Chiapas to Mayab, which is the nearest northbound rail link running from near the Guatemalan border. Traditionally, illegal immigrants have used trains as a means of traversing Mexico's hostile southern terrain, either by picking up the link directly from Chiapas state (which also borders Guatemala) or from Tabasco.

However, the train closure has left hundreds of immigrants stranded in Tabasco and surrounding states, with local organisations estimating the transient immigrant population to up to 6,000 people. While these immigrants usually spend only a few days in Tabasco, an increasing static population is generating local concerns regarding increased crime. Local cross-border people smuggling networks have benefitted, since immigrants have now lost one of their primary means of crossing Mexico independently. Instead, they will have to rely on people smugglers to arrange their passage to the US border, if they can afford it. Those who do not have the funds will be forced to remain in the southern states until a new transport route opens up - either by walking over 300 miles to the Coatzacoalcos rail link or hoping the Chiapas-Mayab link reopens in 2008.

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