Thread: Mexican agents accused of migrant abuse

Mexican agents accused of migrant abuse





Associated Press - December 31, 2008 3:53 PM ET

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says immigration agents locked a group of Central American migrants in a trailer after they refused to pay a bribe.

The commission is asking for a government investigation into the alleged abuse committed Feb. 14, 2007, against 10 Guatemalans and two Salvadorans, including a minor.

The commission says in a release Wednesday that the agents demanded each migrant pay $110 in exchange for being allowed to continue their illegal journey to the United States.

When the migrants refused, the agents allegedly locked them in a tractor-trailer for six hours. The commission says many were at the point of passing out.

Immigration officials could not be reached for comment.

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I hope they deported them back to Central America instead of letting them continue northward.

I am willing to bet someone from the incoming administration called our Mexican government masters and asked to let them proceed north for promised stimulus jobs for illegal aliens.