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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.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Mexico
KEYWORDS: honduran; honduras; labestia; mexico; migrants; really; thebeast; train
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To: RetiredTexasVet

YESIREE!


41 posted on 03/10/2015 7:41:42 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

On of these morons was allegedly heard yelling...Allihu Amnesty...at the scene


42 posted on 03/10/2015 7:43:55 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

It is interesting they don’t think Mexico is the place that owes them anything. Since they lost their arms and stuff trying to catch a Mexican train, being in Mexico...


43 posted on 03/10/2015 7:45:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Obama is culpable for their plight.


44 posted on 03/10/2015 7:45:09 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Not deniablse = Not falsifiable = Not science = Not even wrong.)
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To: Mike Darancette



45 posted on 03/10/2015 7:46:09 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Secret Agent Man

there does seem to be a substantual amount confusion in the minds of these genius “migrants”

Migrants I remember as a kid...

they came they picked cherries...the went home and did the same next year,.

these were not Migrants


46 posted on 03/10/2015 7:47:50 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Nice side to side shifty, beady eye movement


47 posted on 03/10/2015 7:51:19 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

thanks!

that the Inner Revrunt Sharpton!


48 posted on 03/10/2015 7:53:51 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Don’t hold your breath. Yes it can and it will.


49 posted on 03/10/2015 7:58:59 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I say if he can hop all the way to the border let him in. Otherwise, no soap.


50 posted on 03/10/2015 8:20:53 PM PDT by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“Tough...Hop.”

That’s cruel. They should be transported in a gentle, leisurely manner to a place where they will get top-notch care.

I’m thinking a raft to Cuba.


51 posted on 03/10/2015 8:27:20 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Shoulda bought a ticket!


52 posted on 03/10/2015 9:02:43 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

My sympathy is long gone. I have more sympathy for a bank robber who gets shot while robbing a bank.


53 posted on 03/10/2015 11:35:17 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: MeshugeMikey

GOOD! Serves them all right!

Too bad the train did not run over their trespassing heads!

Anyway, now they’re easier targets to shoot.


54 posted on 03/10/2015 11:42:19 PM PDT by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: Organic Panic

the Gimme Gimme Crowd SHOULD take a had lesson form this fiasco..but clearly they wont.


55 posted on 03/11/2015 6:03:15 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SgtHooper

when I first laid eyes on that article..I could have sworn it was a carefully constructed PARODY a Satire of current attitudes...and events.

Sadly Satire has taken a back seat...to “surreality”


56 posted on 03/11/2015 6:16:15 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey
"Legs...? You don't need no stinkin legs!"
57 posted on 03/11/2015 11:17:02 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: MeshugeMikey

Yup. Such articles can no longer be given a cursory glance. The line between reality and parody are no longer quickly discernible in many things. :-)


58 posted on 03/11/2015 4:42:14 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: SgtHooper
Reality AINT WHAT It Used to Be in MANY CIRCLES!




59 posted on 03/11/2015 4:58:08 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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