Mexico deports thousands of Central American migrants
” Thousands? That can’t be. President Bush told that it is impossible to deport that many people.”What a bunch of hypocrites Mexican authorities are. It is OK for them to deport illegals but not the US???? Just what is wrong with that picture?Oh, I am LOVING it. Mexico is dealing with thousands of poor, unwanted MIGRANTS who are streaming in. Let’s see THEIR compassion. I wonder if they will give them Food Stamps, free housing, open arms, free education, free medical care. Maybe they will give them part of Chaipas? I bet maybe it was once THEIRS. Let’s see if the Mexican Prez shows President Bush how to really do it right.
MEXICO CITY: The closure of an American-run railroad in Mexico stranded thousands of U.S.-bound Central American migrants near the Guatemala border and many of them were deported Wednesday by immigration authorities.
Some camped along rail lines waiting for trains that will never come. Others tried to walk hundreds of kilometers (miles) to the next working rail line and some turned themselves in to Mexican authorities.
The government sent hundreds of federal police and soldiers Tuesday to clear out the migrants, who for decades have hopped freight cars on the Chiapas-Mayab railway. The company has run freight trains on two sets of tracks in southern Mexico — one that passes near Guatemala's northern jungle, and another that goes from the Guatemalan border up the western coast. In late July, the Connecticut-based Genesee & Wyoming Inc. withdrew from a 30-year concession to operate the Chiapas-Mayab line.
Company spokeswoman Jeanette Rosado said damage to railway tracks caused by a 2005 hurricane forced the pullout. She also said rail workers had been assaulted, and that train-hopping migrants delayed operations and cost the company money.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/15/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-Stranded-Migrants.php
2007-08-15
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