Posted on 06/27/2011 7:50:49 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Reporting from Mexico City— A Roman Catholic priest who has long championed the cause of migrant workers on Monday denounced what he said was another mass kidnapping of undocumented Central Americans purportedly yanked from a train by masked gunmen in southern Mexico.
Father Alejandro Solalinde, who runs the Hermanos en el Camino shelter for migrants, said at least 80 people primarily from Guatemala and Honduras were apparently abducted Friday in Veracruz state. He based his claim on information from several members of the group who said they managed to escape.If the report is true, this will be the latest in a string of cases in which armed gangs have intercepted illegal immigrants on their voyage across Mexico to the United States. The gangs often try to extort money from the immigrants' families or force them to work as drug mules or in other tasks.
Many of those abducted have ended up in mass graves; in the worst massacre of such migrants, 72 were slain execution-style last year in Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas.
The National Commission for Human Rights demanded Solalinde's assertions be investigated swiftly and that the missing immigrants rescued. The commission says it documented the kidnapping or disappearance of 11,333 immigrants in a six-month period last year and criticized the government for failing to improve safety conditions.
Solalinde told reporters that the witnesses said about 10 heavily armed men pulled the migrants from a train when it stopped at a desolate spot around midday. The gunmen seemed to especially target women and children, rounding them up first and forcing them into waiting trucks, he said.
"Some ran and escaped but the others didn't," Solalinde said. "And now we don't know what's happening to these poor people."
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Our drug users should examine their consciouses.
Pres. Calderon, please pick-up the white courtesy phone...
I find this very hard to believe. Mexico is such a free, law-abiding and moral country. Guns are against the law in Mexico. How can anyone who wants to commit a crime ever get a firearm there?
“Armed gangs” just doing the work that the Mexican government / military would rather not be seen doing.
I guess they ran out of gladiators. Mexico has descended into the pit of Hell.
nothing to see here, move along.
I said move along or get a beat down.
They don't have one of those, and they are likely too addled to have a conscience, either.
Ping!
Mexico doesn’t put up with illegals and neither should we!
Screw the church, they are one the biggest illegal problems we have!
They should have their tax exempt status removed and the priests that harbor the illegals put in prison for treason.
My first thought was his real concern is the church pipeline might be in serious jeapordy.
I hope it is.
Obama is still trying to perfect an 8ft putt which he can’t seem to get even after 72 rounds. He doesn’t have time for silly matters like kidnapped women and children.
...denounced what he said was another mass kidnapping of undocumented Central Americans purportedly yanked from a train by masked gunmen in southern Mexico... said at least 80 people primarily from Guatemala and Honduras were apparently abducted Friday in Veracruz state... the latest in a string of cases in which armed gangs have intercepted illegal immigrants on their voyage across Mexico to the United States. The gangs often try to extort money from the immigrants' families or force them to work as drug mules or in other tasks. Many of those abducted have ended up in mass graves; in the worst massacre of such migrants, 72 were slain execution-style last year in Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas.Gosh, it's almost as if Mexico is entirely lawless.
I imagine calderon is dancing in the streets over this. After all, isn’t it more money into the mexican economy after the families pay ransom to the mexican captors?—or corrupt officials, or whomever?
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