African Illegal Immigrants Stuck in Mexico Violently Clash with Authorities, Demand Passage to US: Report
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African migrants in northwestern Mexico. (Guillermo Arias / Getty Images)
By Jason Hopkins
Published August 30, 2019 at 2:10pm
Thousands of African migrants held up in a southern Mexican city have formed an official organization, criticizing their treatment by immigration authorities and demanding passage into the United States.
The Assembly of African Migrants — a confederation of about 3,000 people from various African countries currently detained in Tapachula, Mexico — launched this week.
The group issued its first news release on Thursday, describing their origins, how they’ve suffered since entering Mexico, and their demands.
“We, the people of African origin, forced to remain Tapachula, suffer an unbearable humanitarian situation related to nurture, housing, health and hygiene; as well as systematic discrimination by immigration authorities,” their news release began. “Since we left our countries, for us life has been a permanent escape. We feel despair, hopelessness, fear, demoralization, loneliness and abandonment.”
The Assembly of African Migrants is made up of illegal immigrants who traveled from the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Cameroon and other African countries.
They left their countries, travelled across South and Central America, but have remained detained in Tapachula, a city on Mexico’s southern border near Guatemala.
Thanks in large part to pressure from the Trump administration, the Mexican government has dramatically stepped up enforcement against illegal immigration.
While the majority of illegal migrants traveling through Mexico are Central Americans, thousands of African migrants have also found themselves stuck near Tapachula’s federal immigration office.
Faced with threats of tariffs from Washington, D.C., the Mexican government has placed thousands of newly-formed National Guard troops on its southern border with Guatemala, and have blocked caravans attempting to travel through its country. Mexico has also agreed to work with the Trump administration on Wait in Mexico and metering policies that keep illegal immigrants out of the U.S.
Poster Comment:
How did these Africans manage to get into Mexico? Who helped them? Was it Soros?
#1: Lod To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Lod posted on 2019-09-02 20:10:23 Reply Private Reply
#2: BTP Holdings To: Lod (#1)
And that is the reason that Mexico has blocked their passage thru Mexico. The pressure Trump has put on Mexico to stop the illegals is working. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-09-02 20:17:31 Reply Private Reply
#3: Ada To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Ada posted on 2019-09-02 21:32:41 Reply Private Reply
#4: ghostdogtxn To: BTP Holdings (#0)
ghostdogtxn posted on 2019-09-02 21:40:14 Reply Private Reply
#5: BTP Holdings To: ghostdogtxn (#4)
I wonder if they swam over from Africa or took a boat or plane? ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-09-02 21:42:09 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: Ada (#3)
Maybe Soros is paying. After all, he is behind the Color Revolutions, and he definitely wants to destabilize the U.S. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-09-02 22:10:01 Reply Private Reply
#7: Ada To: BTP Holdings (#6)
Ada posted on 2019-09-02 23:02:16 Reply Private Reply
#8: BTP Holdings To: Ada (#7)
I did some checking and for one adult, one way, from Abuja, Nigeria to Guatemala City costs right around $1,728 or more, depending on which date you leave Africa. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-09-02 23:11:29 Reply Private Reply
#9: Dakmar To: Ada (#7)
I always wondered about Mexicans paying 40K to a smuggler to get them to the US. You could live a decent life in Mexico on 40K for three or four years.
Dakmar posted on 2019-09-02 23:31:08 Reply Private Reply
#10: Ada To: Dakmar (#9)
Those "huddled masses" on our southern border don't look like starving peasants. Well dressed, most of them, and a little on the chubby side. Maybe they really are afraid of the drug gangs.
Ada posted on 2019-09-03 14:04:38 Reply Private Reply
#11: Dakmar To: Ada (#10)
Dakmar posted on 2019-09-03 14:30:05 Reply Private Reply
#12: NeoconsNailed To: ghostdogtxn (#4)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2019-09-03 14:41:30 Reply Private Reply
#13: StraitGate To: BTP Holdings (#5)
Maybe they came over like the Italians did? -- The first one swam, and then the rest walked across on the grease.
StraitGate posted on 2019-09-04 04:09:15 Reply Private Reply
#14: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate (#13)
You are lucky I am not Italian or I would "grease" you. But I know a few guys on the Chicago Outfit Facebook page that would definitely take issue. LOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2019-09-04 09:21:23 Reply Private Reply