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Central American migrants say Mexico the toughest part of trip
Agencia EFE ^ | 14 March 2006 | Martha Patricia Giovine

Posted on 03/14/2006 6:12:41 PM PST by Kitten Festival

El Paso, Texas, Mar 14 (EFE).- The Rio Grande, deserts of Arizona or the U.S. Border Patrol generally are not the most daunting obstacles to entry into the United States for many Central American emigrants, most of whom have made a perilous journey across the big nation of Mexico.

Mexican immigration authorities intercepted and deported 232,000 Central Americans last year, compared with a total of 72,561 people from Central and South America who were caught and sent home during the 2005 fiscal year by the U.S. Border Patrol.

Two men who managed to make it all the way from the isthmus to the promised land of the United States, Jose and Antonio, agree that Mexico represents the hardest part of the trip. Jose, a Honduran, and Antonio, from Nicaragua, are now ensconsed at a safe house here in El Paso, awaiting an opportunity to make their way into the interior of the United States.

While the details of their passages through Mexico differ, both men's stories are full of talk about cold, hunger and fear.

"In my country they call Mexico 'El Pozo' (the pit)," says Jose, 22, a window-maker from the Honduran town of Las Ruinas Copan.

(Excerpt) Read more at efenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bushsborderlegacy; centralamerica; danger; elpozo; illegalaliens; journey; mexico; migra; migrants; thepit
Try being an illegal alien in Mexico.
1 posted on 03/14/2006 6:12:45 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival
"Mexican immigration authorities intercepted and deported 232,000 Central Americans last year,

That's the good news 232,000 Central Americans never made it to America, bad news 232,000PLUS Mexicans did.

2 posted on 03/14/2006 6:23:23 PM PST by stopem
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To: Kitten Festival; HiJinx

Doesn't this just make us want to hug them. /sarcasm


3 posted on 03/14/2006 6:28:26 PM PST by TheLion
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To: stopem

Thats the main reason Mexico stops them they dont want them taking up space on the trail that Mexicans might fill.


4 posted on 03/14/2006 6:58:32 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: sgtbono2002

Exactly, they don't want the competition. The Central Americans should file an anti-trust suit against Mexico in the World Court. (/sarcasm)

}:-)4


5 posted on 03/14/2006 7:04:05 PM PST by Moose4 ("I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword/In defense of this land and the word of the Lord")
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To: Kitten Festival

When Mex immigration busts them, do they do anything except ASK FOR A TOLL...? No...


6 posted on 03/14/2006 7:08:23 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Kitten Festival
Try being an illegal alien in Mexico.

Or just having skin that is too dark...
7 posted on 03/14/2006 7:51:37 PM PST by P-40 (http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: Kitten Festival; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; ...
Click to see other threads related to illegal aliens in America
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Only 70-some thousand deported by the US in '05? That's because catch-and-release was in effect.

8 posted on 03/14/2006 8:35:08 PM PST by HiJinx (~ www.proudpatriots.org ~ Serving Those Who Serve Us ~ Operation Easter/Passover ~)
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To: Kitten Festival

Can't a RAT, socialist/commie convince them how terrible things are here, and they should not try to get in and suffer with the rest of us? No? Shucks, hic.


9 posted on 03/14/2006 8:45:16 PM PST by Waco
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To: Kitten Festival
"In my country they call Mexico 'El Pozo' (the pit)," says Jose,

I hear ya, Jose.

10 posted on 03/15/2006 12:04:13 AM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: P-40

What a struggle that must be.


11 posted on 03/15/2006 12:08:24 AM PST by Pro-Bush (A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.)
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To: Kitten Festival; rovenstinez; engrpat; HamiltonFan; Draco; TexasCajun; razorback-bert; ...

El Pozo Ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.


12 posted on 03/15/2006 4:53:30 AM PST by SwinneySwitch (Terroristas-beyond your expectations!)
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To: Kitten Festival

Mexico, deporting illegals that other countries won't.


13 posted on 03/15/2006 6:08:06 AM PST by wolfcreek
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To: Kitten Festival

"In my country they call Mexico 'El Pozo' (the pit)," says Jose, 22, a window-maker from the Honduran town of Las Ruinas Copan.



Mexico's universal nick.


14 posted on 03/15/2006 8:53:15 AM PST by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: azhenfud; All
http://www.usborderpatrol.com/borderframe87.htm

snip.... TODAY, we have nearly 11,000 criminals invading our country each and every night and the murder rate from them is over 18 dead each day and nothing is done.

And again, these millions of people flooding our southern border -- 11,000 a night -- are now being supported, and even funded, by al Qaeda and the Mexican drug cartels.

Crime is rampant throughout all of the countries south of our border. The murder rate for Mexico -- in Mexico -- is about 18 dead per 100,000. Yes, that is 18,000 people murdered every year inside Mexico -- a country with a 100 million population. The murder rate for the USA is about 4 per 100,000 -- a country with about 300 million people. So, yes, Mexico kills as more people than we do but they have one third the population so that really does mean that their citizens kill at a rate that is more than three times that of the people in the United States. Certainly, not everyone in Mexico is a murderer. But there is one truth to murder everywhere on earth:

Almost all murderers anywhere on earth are males between the ages of 15 and 34.

And this is where things get very interesting. About 98 of every 100 illegals crossing our border are Mexican males between the ages of 15 and 34.

15 posted on 03/15/2006 10:53:52 AM PST by WatchingInAmazement ("Nothing is more expensive than cheap labor," prof. Vernon Briggs, labor economist Cornell Un.)
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To: HiJinx

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16 posted on 03/15/2006 11:13:36 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: HiJinx
Sorry about the screw up. :)

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant!


17 posted on 03/15/2006 11:14:37 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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