Thread: Mexico Detains 513 People Crammed Into Two US-Bound Trucks

Mexico Detains 513 People Crammed Into Two US-Bound TrucksUpdated: Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 2:56 PM EDT

Published : Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 2:56 PM EDT

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - Police on Tuesday detained 513 undocumented migrants from Latin America and Asia who were crammed into two trucks bound for the United States, prosecutors in southeast Mexico said.

The migrants, from Latin America, Japan, China, India and Nepal, "were traveling in inhuman conditions" in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, the local attorney general's office said in a statement.

Police stopped the trucks, carrying 240 and 273 people, on the outskirts of state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez early Tuesday, after they accelerated through a vehicle scanner at a police checkpoint, the statement said.

Officers chased down the vehicles shortly afterward, it added.

Police detained the Mexican drivers of the two trucks, and the migrants were provided with aid and food, the statement said.

Mexican lawmakers last month unanimously approved a law to "strengthen the protection and security" of migrants amid widespread abuse.

Rights groups have long criticized Mexico for failing to protect tens of thousands of migrants, mainly from Central America, trying to cross the vast country to illegally enter the US each year.

The gruesome discovery of 72 murdered migrants from Central and South America in northeastern Tamaulipas state last August increased pressure on the government to act.


http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/mexico- ... 110517-ncx

Here is another example of upside down backward thinking. Yes, its a shame that the folks in the trucks were being inhumanely treated. However, they got themselves into that situation by breaking Mexican immigration law and seeking to break U.S. immigration law! What Mexico should have done was vigorously prosecuted the truck drivers and their accomplices and immediately deported the illegals back to where ever they came from!

Just think how this scenario will be played out again and again with the new cross border trucking program in place?!

Welcome geocal. As long as Obama is in the WH illegals will flock to our borders for that promised AMNESTY or to squirt out an anchor baby for the 18 year welfare prize.

[quote="Newmexican"]Mexico Detains 513 People Crammed Into Two US-Bound TrucksUpdated: Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 2:56 PM EDT

Times that by the at least 4 anchors a piece once they got here, that's preventing 2,052 from collecting welfare and stealing jobs. And you have to consider those anchors eventually having anchors and the numbers keep spreading like weeds. It's a non-stop invasion everytime an illegal sneaks accross the border! Obama praises Mex Pres Calderon for "working with the USA", so does he also applaud him for hauling off illegals in his Country?? Obama is one bean short of a burrito!

Originally Posted by working4change

Just think how this scenario will be played out again and again with the new cross border trucking program in place?!

Can you imagine the increased numbers that will make it across the borders? If this cross borders trucking is the same system they had in mind,I believe their first stops would not be until they got to Kansas City.

welcome aboard geocal

Originally Posted by uniteasone

Originally Posted by working4change

Just think how this scenario will be played out again and again with the new cross border trucking program in place?!

Can you imagine the increased numbers that will make it across the borders? If this cross borders trucking is the same system they had in mind,I believe their first stops would not be until they got to Kansas City.

You are right Unite..I forgot about Kansas City. Even worse

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Mexico police rescue 513 US-bound migrants

Associated Press
Posted: 05/17/2011 03:48:26 PM MDT

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) - Authorities in mexico's southernmost state say they have rescued 513 migrants who were found in two trailer trucks bound for the United States.

Chiapas state prosecutors say they also arrested four people accused of smuggling the migrants, who are from Central and South America and Asia.

Prosecutors say police discovered the migrants Tuesday while using X-ray equipment on the trucks at a checkpoint in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez. They say the smugglers tried unsuccessfully to escape.

Prosecutors say 410 of the migrants were grom Guatemala, 47 from El Salvador, 32 from Ecuador, 12 from India, six from Nepal, three from China and one each from Japan, the Dominican Republic and Honduras.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_18080691

What happened to the illegals? Were they released to continue their journey to the land of milk and honey?