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    MEXICO CRACKS DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Breitbart

    MEXICO CRACKS DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
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    by KRISTIN TATE 29 Aug 2014, 10:27 AM PDT Courts



    HOUSTON, Texas -- Mexico has recently launched its largest crackdown of illegal migration in decades, and it is yielding major results. Reports say their efforts have dramatically cut down the number of children and families making it across the border.

    Government officials in Mexico have cracked down on the Death Train, also known as "La Bestia," according to the Associated Press (AP). Thousands of children who travel via Death Train previously jumped onto a moving freight car. Minors who could not successfully pull themselves onto the traveling cars would fall onto the tracks--many were left with extreme injuries.

    Mexican police have reported started raiding the rail cars and arresting any illegal immigrants they find.


    Jorge Ruiz Williams, a 20 year-old immigrant from Honduras, told the AP, "They took almost everyone. We escaped [authorities] because we’re young and agile."


    Now that word-of-mouth has spread to Central America about the crackdown, many are choosing not to make the dangerous trek north to the United States.


    Breitbart Texas' Contributing Editor and border security expert Sylvia Longmire said, "Many Americans don't understand the power of word-of-mouth in Latin America; it's like gossip in a small American town times ten."


    Longmire continued, "It's interesting to think about how the 'humanitarian immigration crisis' along the Texas border in the past few months would have looked if Mexico had just started these practices months ago, or even years ago. Undoubtedly, this is the result of considerable US public pressure on the Obama administration, and subsequent pressure from the US government on the Mexican and Central American governments."


    She added that whether or not the effort will be sustainable is "entirely up to the Mexican government. As more Central American immigrants start staying...and looking for work, perhaps authorities there will realize more about the problems we've been dealing with since the surge started and start cracking down on the Mexico-Guatemala border, as politically unsavory as that may be."


    While a recent decline in illegal immigrant apprehensions along the Texas-Mexico border is encouraging, it remains to be seen how long Mexico can keep up the intensity of its new operation. Their methods are already drawing criticism among Central Americans, according to the AP, many of whom see the efforts similar to those of the U.S. Border Patrol.


    A 30-year-old man from Guatemala told the AP, "Before you could get through more easily. If I can get a steady job, a steady paycheck, I’d stay [in Mexico]…to send money back home."

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    Mexico authorities stage midnight migrant raid

    By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press | August 29, 2014 | Updated: August 29, 2014 4:03pm


    • Photo By Rebecca Blackwell/AP
      RESENDING RLB101 TO REPLACE CORRUPT FILE - Immigration officials remove Central American migrants from a northbound freight train during a raid by federal police in San Ramon, Mexico, just after midnight on the morning of Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The largest crackdown by Mexican authorities on illegal migration in decades has decreased the flow of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States, and has dramatically cut the number of child migrants and families, according to officials and eyewitness accounts along the perilous route.



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    SAN RAMON, Mexico (AP) — The lumbering freight train known as "The Beast," a key part of the route for migrants heading north to the United States, rolled to an abrupt, unscheduled stop in the black of midnight.

    Mexican federal police and immigration agents had waited silently in the brush alongside for at least hour, visible only by the glint of their powerful flashlights.


    As the train stopped, the area was suddenly flooded with spotlights as agents pounced from both sides of the track, scaling ladders to the tops of the freight cars and shouting: "Federal police! Give up! You're surrounded! Come down carefully!"


    About a dozen men, some literally spitting with anger and desperation, were firmly led off the track, an agent's hand on the back of their necks neck, and taken to waiting vans for processing and deportation. Agents helped a lone female migrant clambering over a coupling between cars to reach their van, telling her "Walk carefully, don't fall."


    "Don't touch me," she snarled.


    The scene early Friday would have been unheard of in Mexico during the decades in which Central American migrants were allowed to freely hop freight trains to reach the U.S. border. But the raid is part of a crackdown that has sharply reduced the number of women and children trying to make their way to the United States, where they turn themselves into the U.S. Border Patrol — an exodus that caused what U.S. leaders call a crisis at the border.


    Fewer than 15 migrants were detained Friday on a train that once carried 600 to 1,000 migrants at a time. It seemed — at least temporarily — like the end of an era for the train the migrants dubbed "La Bestia" because of all the travelers who had been maimed or killed trying to hitch a ride.

    But the migrants, fleeing unemployment, violence and poverty in their home countries, have been only temporarily deterred by past strategies. Some already have devised ways to avoid capture under the crackdown. One lone migrant escaped Friday's raid by lying flat on the roof of the last freight car and managing to stay aboard as the train pulled out.


    Police said the most experienced border crossers wait near the back of the 50-car train, where they have more time to react when it stops.


    They know it's hard for police to patrol the entire length of the train.

    http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Mexico-authorities-stage-midnight-migrant-raid-5721856.php
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