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Rolly

Jul 14, 2012, 7:38 PM

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Central American immigrants are under fire in México

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Tultitlan, Mexico (CNN) Residents here say they stopped feeling safe when strangers started lingering on street corners and leering at locals. They created neighborhood watch patrols to keep crime in check.

It's the kind of complaint heard often these days in small-town America or on blocks in big U.S. cities struggling with a flood of foreign residents.

More than 100 immigrants from Central America arrive daily in this working-class neighborhood outside the country's capital. Most are Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans who don't stay long; they are stowaways on cargo trains heading north to the United States.

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norteño

Jul 14, 2012, 11:13 PM

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There has been quite a bit in the Mexican news in recent days about the thousands of Central American migrants who were "grounded" in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz by a derailment and bridge collapse that prevented them continuing on their route to the United States on the freight train known as the "Beast", which runs from the Guatemalan border to Matamoros and is famous for the huge numbers of illegal aliens it carries.

http://noticias.terra.com/...00099cceb0aRCRD.html

Some 3,500 undocumented persons, mainly Central Americans, are "grounded" and in an emergency situation in the city of Coatzacoalcos in eastern Veracruz State. They are unable to continue their travel due to a derailment and bridge collapse, civil agencies reported.

"The migrants, who include pregnant women, children and some ill subjects, are in danger of contracting skin, eye, gastrointestinal and respiratory disorders since they are living, eating and sleeping a few steps away from where many are defecating and urinating," explained the organization Meso-American Migrant Movement in a press release.

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Rolly

Jul 15, 2012, 8:37 AM

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And the drug cartels are getting involved in other areas.

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Goyo

Jul 29, 2012, 3:52 PM

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then there is this also... http://www.borderlandbeat.com/...-you-dont-think.html

salto_jorge

Jul 30, 2012, 7:10 AM

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The immigrants in the article can/do cause many problems in Guadalajara/Zapopan.

Where we live they constantly bother everyone for money to the point that it is unsafe to walk alone day or night without a dog. The stand in or block the flow of traffic at the railroad crossings trying to get money from drivers.

The worst issue is related to home issues.
They walk around testing ones gates and electric fences trying to gain entrance to homes.
Any home made wooden ladders must be destroyed the minute they are observed.

I have seen them on our security camera trying to pick the lock to our walk in gate and/or knock it down. They damaged it once and we had to call the gate company for an emergency repair.

On several occassions we have caught them using a small file and key blanks trying to make their own crude keys, when you ask them what they are doing, we are told that they need food. Every few days we have to check every small ledge outside the front wall and cracks in the sidewalks for these partially made keys that are passed from one immigrant to the other as they try to gain access to cotos and homes. The immigrants seem to know where to look for the keys as they pass and refine the cuts in the blanks and hide them for the next one.

Some of them have set up camps near the railroad tracks. The situation is getting worse and the human pipeline is backing up with no place for them to go. Maybe they are getting word that EL NORTE is harder to enter or ????

(This post was edited by salto_jorge on Jul 30, 2012, 7:19 AM)