Mexican authorities discover 219 migrants in truck

Mexican authorities discover 219 migrants in truck
Associated Press
Posted: 01/28/2011 11:06:35 AM MST

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA CASAS, Mexico (AP) - Mexican authorities have discovered 219 migrants squeezed into a trailer truck in the southern state of Chiapas.

The Chiapas state government says in a statement that the driver and another person tried to bribe police who stopped the truck.

The statement Thursday said most of the migrants are from Central America but six are from Sri Lanka and four are Nepalese. Thirty-three are women and nine are minors.

The statement said police chased down the truck Wednesday when the driver refused to stop for inspection at a checkpoint.

The migrants were being deported Thursday.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants travel through Mexico each year in the hopes of reaching the United States.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_17226726

"Mexican authorities discover 219 migrants in truck"

For those of you who don't speak the language "migrant" is Mexican for "ILLEGAL ALIEN". 8)

Yeah, Mexico. Where being an illegal alien is against the law and they are thrown in jail.

As the violence grows more and more in Mexico, the people will keep trying no matter what. We have to do something to stop the deluge or our country will soon be like the country these people are fleeing. It will take a comabination of many things to stop it, but it must be stopped. Mexicans will just have to learn to stand and fight in their own country.

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Yeah, Mexico. Where being an illegal alien is against the law and they are thrown in jail.

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That law was changed several years ago. Now they just deport them.

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The migrants were being deported Thursday.

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Racist! Separating families!!! Oh, the poor children!! Coming for a better life!!

How am I doing?

Well, at least the Mexican government isn't giving them a ride to our border.

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As the violence grows more and more in Mexico, the people will keep trying no matter what. We have to do something to stop the deluge or our country will soon be like the country these people are fleeing. It will take a comabination of many things to stop it, but it must be stopped. Mexicans will just have to learn to stand and fight in their own country.

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You are so, so right. I fear for the next waive of propaganda American citizens are going to be expected to tolerate and endure- today it is "they just want to work and are looking for a better life" tomorrow it may be - ready for this? assylum due to life threatening safety concerns ...... 'lest we forget Cuba and Haiti.

TRANSLATION from Mexico.cnn.com link above

A group of 219 migrant, who travelled "in subhuman conditions" in a trailer stolen that was directed toward Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, they were rescued by elements of security, in that zone of the southeast of Mexico, reported Notimex.

The interinstitutional group of security, complied with members of the attorney general's office of Justice of the State and of the Office of the secretary of Security and Civic Protection, achieved the detection of the native foreigners of diverse countries of Central America and Asia in the tractocamión.

The authorities pursued to the truck after paid attention omitted to a mark of high in a point of review close to the capital of state, according to a the official statement.

Of the total of rescued, 169 they are native of Guatemala, 22 of El Salvador, 18 of Honduras, six of Sri Lanka and four of Nepal. Of them, 177 are men, 33 women and nine under age.

A group of 10 Salvadorians and Honduran, suspects to abduct to central american immigrants, they were captured January 22 in the same state.

From April to September of the 2010, there was at least 200 cases of massive abduction of immigrants, with near 10.000 private people of its liberty, according to Fernando Batista, fifth frequent visitor of the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH).

The figure between September of 2008 and February of 2009 was of 9.758 cases, according to the CNDH.

Of these 200 massive abductions of 2010, three emphasized in the media: 72 migrant center and south american they were private of its liberty in August in the state of Tamaulipas and murdered by presumed members of the criminal group The Zeds; in December passed, the Chancellery of El Salvador denounced the abduction of 50 immigrants in Oaxaca, later transcended the disappearance from other nine by hand of an armed group in the state.