When will the SPLC call this a hate crime? Don't hold your breath.

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http://www.elsalvador.com/mwedh/nota/no ... rt=2233775

Members of the Mexican army and the National Institute of Migration (INM) stopped today with violence a little more than a hundred undocumented central americans in the surrounding area of the populated town of Las Palmas in the state of Oaxaca, denounced the coordinator of the Migrant House of Arriaga, Carlos Bartolo SolĂ*s. According to the versions of some migrants that managed to evade the operation in which a little more than 80 soldiers and agents of the INM participated, the soldiers utilized battons and sticks to stop them.

Bartola SolĂ*s showed her worry, since in that railroad travelled various children and elderly that apparently were placed under arrest and others managed to escape when they hid between the brush and gullies of that region, where there is not water nor houses where they could receive some type of aid.

"We are worried, since the constant operations that are carried out by the government of Mexico has obligated the migrant to walk for more than four days, from Arriaga, Chiapas to Ixtepec, Oaxaca, where they are victims of organized crime".

"They came at us in the night, there were more than 80 soldiers, they got more than a hundred, others managed to hide, and we managed to flee and to climb ahead, but we were afraid of another operation", assures the Salvadorian Felipe Ruiz LĂłpez, native of La Libertad, El Salvador, who in spite of the operation that has implemented the government of Mexico, hewill continue on the road bound for Houston, Texas.

In unofficial form it is estimated that inside the operation the arrest was achieved of at least 19 Salvadorians, 40 Guatemalans and 51 Hondurans.

Under a strong security operation, the foreigners were transferred to the migratory stations of San Pedro Tapanatepec and La Ventosa, Oaxaca where this same day they were sentto Tapachula for their deportation.