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Honduran migrants, maimed by train, protest their plight
L.A. Times ^
| March 10, 2015
| TRACY WILKINSON
Posted on 03/10/2015 6:45:26 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Some armless, others hobbling on spindly prosthetic legs, Honduran migrants came to Mexico City this week to protest their plight. Maimed in Mexico when they tried to catch a precarious train to reach the United States, they feel forgotten, ignored and with little reason to live.
“Our visa [to enter the U.S.] is our mutilation, our handicap, our lost arms and legs,” said Jose Luis Hernandez, 29, of Progreso, Honduras. He fell off the train, known here as La Bestia — the Beast — in the northern border state of Chihuahua; caught under its wheels, Hernandez’s leg, left arm and part of his right hand were severed from his body.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Mexico
KEYWORDS: honduran; honduras; labestia; mexico; migrants; really; thebeast; train
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YOUR VISAS???? please.
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:47:18 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Plea$e $upport Free Republic!)
To: MeshugeMikey
Future productive citizens of the US.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:47:24 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I hope this..doesnt start..a trend..
become “disabled” get a free pass...
I’ll be surprised if Pinky Obama doesnt invite these clowns to the Whitehouse
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:49:08 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
they failed the entrance IQ test..... return HOME....do not pass GO
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:49:55 PM PDT
by
zzwhale
To: MeshugeMikey
They were just minding their own business when a train just appeared and lopped off their arms.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:50:25 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Infantry officer.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:50:51 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
Some blow themselves up for much less.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:51:16 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Plea$e $upport Free Republic!)
To: MeshugeMikey
They rode the Obama train.
He encouraged them to risk their lives, and he owes them.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:51:43 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
To: MeshugeMikey
He fell off the train, known here as «La Bestia»—the Beast …
. . . which he was not supposed to be on in the first place.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:52:23 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:52:36 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
Yes, but personally; not with money stolen from US citizens.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:52:56 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: MeshugeMikey
Heh, heh. You play with fire and you can be burned.
Hope they sue Mexico for everything they can.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:55:01 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: MeshugeMikey
It’s very sad for them and for their future. They may help others though by serving as an example of what happens when you try to jump on the train.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:56:16 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Tough...Hop. That struck me as extremely funny, I reckon I got some devil in me.
To: MeshugeMikey
Some how this ridiculous article brings to mind the phrase: “Kill your parents and beg for sympathy because you are an orphan”.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:57:04 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(When Socialism changes to Communism: When they take your guns and bring out theirs.)
To: MeshugeMikey
We will not stop the invasion unless we elect a President who will uphold the law.
This President has encouraged this latest wave of illegal aliens with his illegal amnesty plans.
The GOP has encouraged him by not stopping him.
They’re trying to nominate a cheap labor importer, again.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:57:39 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Graybeard58
I pitched.
You caught.
Let’s play two!
RIP Ernie Banks.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:59:06 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Plea$e $upport Free Republic!)
To: MeshugeMikey
Another sob story by the LA Slime.
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posted on
03/10/2015 6:59:21 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
To: MeshugeMikey
OMG. Your visas? I can’t take much more.
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