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05-30-2019, 06:20 PM #1
Mexican authorities push out camping migrants in south
Mexican authorities push out camping migrants in south
- ByMARIA VERZA, ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAPACHULA, Mexico — May 29, 2019, 6:03 PM ET
The Associated PressA Mexican marine stands by as camping migrant families are evicted from a park in Tapachula, Mexico, early Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Authorities cleared the park of camping Central American migrants and the makeshift encampment of Haitians and African migrants outside the immigration detention center near the Guatemala border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)more +
Mexican immigration authorities have cleared a park of camping Central American migrants and another makeshift encampment of Haitians and African migrants outside an immigration detention center near the Guatemala border.
It appeared Wednesday that most of the migrants had been transported to a fairgrounds on the outskirts of Tapachula that were already being used to house other migrants.
With the dual actions, authorities seemed to be trying to get a handle on a situation that was growing unsustainable. It was the second time they had transferred migrants camped outside the detention center to the fairgrounds. Newly arriving migrants had camped there again since the last time in late April.
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About 100 migrants were pushed out of the Tapachula park around midnight Tuesday. Families grabbed bedding and guided sleepy children away, not knowing where they were going.
Meanwhile, about 1,000 migrants were moved from outside the detention center where they had camped for weeks awaiting word on requests for asylum or permits that would allow them to continue north.
Witnesses said both moves were carried out without violence.
In the case of the larger group outside the detention center, the migrants moved voluntarily.
Carlos Alcántara, who sells fruit outside the detention center, said several buses pulled up late Tuesday night. Officials spoke with the migrants, the majority of whom then boarded the buses. "They told them they wanted to move them for hygiene reasons," he said.
Emaly Elisiane, a Haitian woman travelling with seven relatives, said officials told the migrants they could process their requests for permits that would allow them to cross Mexico at the new location. She said her family didn't go only because her son wasn't there at the time and they didn't want to be separated.
The downtown park was also cleared without resistance, but it left dozens of families confused about where to go next.
"We don't have anywhere to go," said Germán Efraín Rodríguez, 33, of Honduras, late Tuesday night. He was camped with his wife and three children in the town's central park. He held his documents in his hand, including a visa that allowed him to be in Mexico legally and paperwork showing he had requested asylum. "They look down on us. We demand a little respect."
Resentment has been growing in parts of central Mexico as the flow of migrants has continued. Towns were receptive and welcoming to the first caravans last year, but more recently have felt overwhelmed.
Tapachula is about 23 miles (37 kilometers) from the border crossing with Guatemala. Mexican authorities have become more active in trying to break up migrant caravans, launching occasional raids.
The government is trying to encourage more of the migrants to regularize their status in Mexico and stay in the south, but for most the United States remains the goal.
"We have to go, we have to go, but where are we going to go?" asked Vanesa Rodríguez, who had travelled from Honduras with two daughters. She found herself disoriented and not knowing which direction to walk in the middle of the night.
"They don't let us into the shelters, because there's no space."
On Tuesday afternoon, immigration authorities also raided at least two hotels where Cuban migrants were staying in Tapachula. About a half-dozen were taken from one hotel, but the owner of the other hotel wouldn't let agents enter without a judge's order.
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05-30-2019, 06:52 PM #2
PUSH THEM OUT on buses back home!
Shut our whole border down!
GO HOME AND "DEMAND" YOUR RESPECT FROM OUR PRESIDENT!
NO ONE WANTS THESE PEOPLE AND MEXICO KEEPS DUMPING THEM ON OUR BACKS!ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM
DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL
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05-30-2019, 06:57 PM #3"We have to go, we have to go, but where are we going to go?" asked Vanesa Rodríguez, who had travelled from Honduras with two daughters. She found herself disoriented and not knowing which direction to walk in the middle of the night.A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
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05-31-2019, 07:17 AM #4
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05-31-2019, 08:58 AM #5
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BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THESE HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of CHARTERED BUSES that are driving them up north to the border????? Why don't we ever hear about them????? Where's the pictures and videos of the chartered bus caravans heading north on the Mexican interstate highway system????? Where's the pictures/videos of these buses dropping off their PAYLOADS only a few blocks from our border????? Why aren't the Mexicans simply impounding these buses and or stopping them on the highways and turning them back????? WHY does that tent in the above PIC say "US" on it????? We're being SCAMMED BY TRUMP and the media he rails against!!!!!
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05-31-2019, 09:24 AM #6
Load up buses labeled "USA" and then drive them right back home!
ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM
DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL
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