Thread: Bodies of 24 apparent migrants wash ashore in Mexico

Bodies of 24 apparent migrants wash ashore in Mexico
Associated Press
Oct. 19, 2007 05:46 PM

MEXICO CITY - The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore Friday in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific Ocean.

The corpses have not yet been identified, and officials said the government was searching the waters for more bodies around the coastal town of San Francisco del Mar, 200 miles up the coast from the Guatemalan border.

Sergio Segreste, the Oaxaca state public safety secretary, said 24 bodies, all of adult men, washed ashore.

"This morning, we got a report that a vessel carrying undocumented migrants had capsized or gone down," Segreste said. "The assumption is that the cause of the accident was the rough weather."

If confirmed to be migrants, it could be evidence that smugglers are increasingly turning to boats to transport Central Americans through Mexico, avoiding highway checkpoints.

Many illegal migrants have been stranded and looking for other ways north since service was interrupted this year on two railway lines they once used to hitch rides north on freight trains.

In August, thousands of U.S.-bound Central American migrants found themselves stranded near the Guatemala border after Connecticut-based Genesee & Wyoming Inc. withdrew from a 30-year concession to operate the Chiapas-Mayab line. For decades, migrants had relied on the train to carry them from to the U.S./Mexico border.

It remains unclear whether the closures will cause more migrants to hire smugglers, who often transport them in trucks, or to attempt risky trips in rickety and overcrowded boats.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... migrants10

For decades, migrants had relied on the train to carry them from to the U.S./Mexico border.

Another sign that ILLEGAL immigration has seen it's day. The American people will not sit back anymore and let this crisis go on. It has to end. Build the fence, enforce the law.

Time for Latin America to take care of it's citizens.

This is sad.... I do not blaim the immigrants although I do not want them here.

Big Business, the Bush administration, congress and the senate are the indirect and direct blaim for every single death... Build the F'n fence

Yes, this is very sad. Wish other countries would get their acts together for their people but I blame our so-called leaders too for allowing illegal immigrants to risk their lives to come here to work.

It is extremely sad, and it will not change until our government sends the message you come here illegally and you will not get work or amnesty in the United States.

I would sure like to know how all of these governments can sleep at night, especially ours!


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These people were in the process of breaking into the U.S. illegally. And once here, probably many of them were planning on using fake social security numbers, obtaining all sorts of false documenation, flooding our emergency rooms, and giving birth to anchor babies. They are exactly what we are all fightng so hard to stop.

So am I sad they didn't make it here? Of course not. Am I sad they died in their attempt? Yes.

I pity them for behaving like sheep and following the flock to the U.S.when they should have stayed in their homeland and fought for a better life there.

And I pity the families they left behind. Now they're worse off than they were before.