Posted on 05/17/2011 1:32:04 PM PDT by crosshairs
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.
God only knows how many are getting through.
Mexico voraciously defends its border with Guatamala from illegals
would that they would put as much effort into their border with the USA
Mexico’s northern border is a diode.
It allows current to flow in only one direction..............
Bet money these people didn’t pay off the right people down in Mehico.
Hey, don't you believe the government and RINO spin? There's only 11-million “undocumented,” the same as in 2002. Millions are self-deporting. They are just wearing camouflage so you don't recognize them.
More government lies. They don’t dare tell the truth and announce recent estimates are in excess of 25 million...Throw in millions more anchor babies....Well
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These were stopped more than 400 miles southeast of Mexico City. This is a good sign that the Mexicans have taken the the hint and are starting to crack down in the southern part of their country. I suspect it is because the ones who don’t get across the border are causing problems for the Mexicans, not to do us any favors.
Mexico defends its southern border so that more Mexicans can get into the US.
250 people would get less than 2 sq ft of floorspace each.
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Correction: Thank you for the post crosshairs. Thanks for the ping swinneyswitch.
Mexico is getting heat about the hundreds of bodies they are digging up in northern Mexico. Several immigration officals have been fired and others arrested for turning them over to the cartels.
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