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Jun 18, 2011, 11:22 AM

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Deportation bus hijacked from INM

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Deportation bus hijacked from INM and migrants and INM agents were relieved of their belongings but later released…….

I thought this article was particularly interesting for a couple of reasons…..

“Tras constatar que se habían equivocado de autobús pues esperaban uno de turismo, los sujetos armados permitieron a los centroamericanos y los agentes del INM que los conducían retomar su camino.”

“After finding they had the wrong bus, they thought it was a bus with tourists, the gunmen allowed the Central Americans and INM agents that drove the bus to continue on their journey.”

I have been hearing how safe tourists are in Mexico and that the violence is only cartel on cartel or against migrants but the “bad guys” let the migrants go cuz the “bad guys” were looking for tourists???

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“Por instrucciones del comisionado y en base a la nueva Ley General de Migración y en apego a los programas humanitarios se les hizo notificación de que se les podía otorgar la visa humanitaria porque ellos habían sido víctimas de delito”.

Dijo que 10 de ellos se acogieron a la visa humanitaria, por lo que se iniciaron de inmediato los trámites para su legal estancia en nuestro país y “el resto prefirió la repatriación ordenada y segura”.

"On instructions of the Commissioner and based on the new Migration Law and adherence to humanitarian programs they were given notice that they could be granted humanitarian visas because they had been victims of crime."

He said that 10 of them availed themselves of the humanitarian visa, so they immediately started the paperwork to their legal status in our country and "the rest preferred the orderly and safe repatriation."

I am wondering how they are processing the NEW HUMANITARIAN visas if there is no Reglamento de la Ley de Migración yet??

Vichil

Jun 18, 2011, 11:30 AM

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Re: [Casa] Deportation bus hijacked from INM

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Down there the police and the Immigration usually work together with the cartels so this thing is not very surprising that a bus full of migrants was stopped although the poor guys had probably already be relieved of their belongings.
Tourist buses get get held up and robbed on a regular basis. So far tourists have been robbed not killed.
It is pretty hard to swallow that the bad guys cannot make the different between a bus full of migrants and bus full of tourists. Something does not smell right in that story as usual...

richmx2

Jun 18, 2011, 11:41 PM

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"...que confundieron su autobús con uno de turismo..." would suggest a tour bus, which could mean a specific tour bus was targeted and the hold-up guys got the wrong bus. I have never read anyone who has said that tour buses going to Palenque were never held up, only that it is a fairly rare. I hope Vichil meant that gangsters usually work with police and/or IMN, and not, as written, that the police and IMN usually work for gangsters.

While I believe (but can't say for certain) that it's always been true that a potential witness in a court case who would otherwise face deportation can be allowed to stay in the country, and there have always been exceptions made to deportations based on humanitarian grounds, so I don't think there's anything dubious about an exception being made in this VERY, VERY ODD (and very murky) situation ... especially when the law is changing and the situation could affect Mexican foreign policy towards the Central American governments.

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