Mexico Detains Dozens of Migrants in Raid on Freight Train – IOTW Report

Mexico Detains Dozens of Migrants in Raid on Freight Train

Epoch Times: MEXICO CITY—About 100 Mexican soldiers and immigration agents raided a freight train in the southern state of Chiapas on June 27 and detained dozens of Central American migrants riding atop the cars.

Such raids had been rare since the last crackdown on migrants in 2014. But under increasing U.S. pressure to reduce the flow of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans through Mexican territory, Mexico’s government has stepped up enforcement.

At least some of the troops wore armbands of Mexico’s newly formed National Guard. The government says it has deployed thousands of Guard agents across the country with supporting immigration enforcement.

In a scene filmed by Associated Press journalists, the train rolled to a stop in a rural area, and then soldiers climbed ladders to the top of freight cars shouting, “This is the army, you’re surrounded!”

Throngs of migrants sought to flee by running along the tops of freight cars, while others clambered down to the ground and headed into the brush.

One soldier was seen wrestling a young, flailing man into a waiting immigration van by the neck. Agents filled three such vehicles with migrants, but hundreds more were apparently able to escape.

The train may have been carrying as many as 400 migrants, and Mexico’s Immigration Institute said it detained 40.

The most recent such raid occurred May 1 in the state of Oaxaca. Central Americans have been riding freight trains, collectively known as “La Bestia,” or The Beast, for years. keep reading

4 Comments on Mexico Detains Dozens of Migrants in Raid on Freight Train

  1. Riddle me this, Ocasio Cortez…In what kind of hare-brained, messed up Nazi analogy do the prisoners get taken off the trains and sent home before the trains reach the concentration camps?

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  2. What is it, about a thousand miles from Mexico’s southern border to its northern one? Pretty hard to imagine a train of foreign people making that journey, in any way, without support from the local nationality.
    So if that support were to end I don’t think many people would try it.

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  3. LCD, they come in on the Chamber of Commerce railroad, Kansas City Southern / Kansas City Southern Mexico. I had stock a while back, but divested. I’m sure the Mexican government, the cartels and KC Southern are setting up show raids to give the appearance of decisive action. I just hope Trump is not fooled.

    Remember, these people believe and hope they can wait Trump out. Their illusions must be shattered.

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  4. The flood of peasants hasn’t slowed yet according to reports. One report had several “Nigerians?” wading across the Rio Grande with their suitcases.
    Over 2 billion more dollars for a dwindling number of border jumpers? And Pelosi has managed to stop and deportation roundups. This is bullshit.

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