Mexico detains 108 in immigration sweep; most from Central America

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MEXICO CITY | Sat Apr 27, 2013 @ Mexico detains 108 in immigration sweep; most from Central America | Reuters

(Reuters) - Mexican authorities said on Saturday they detained 108 undocumented immigrants along highways, at bus stations and on a cargo train route that thousands of Central Americans use every year to cross Mexico and enter the United States illegally.

Ninety five Central Americans, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, were detained in the southern states of Oaxaca and Tabasco during sweeps by federal police in the last 24 hours, Mexico's migration institute said in a statement.

And you can bet your bottom dollar they are on their way at this moment back to the border to the south where they'll be forced to cross back out of Mexico. The Mexican government won't tolerate illegal immigration. Can't even get by with paying “mordida” any more.

 

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Probably the number of illegals that cross our border before noon on any given day.

 

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Another journalist murdered in Mexico...

POLICE BEAT REPORTER FOUND DEAD IN SOUTHERN MEXICO
Jul 17,`13 -- A newspaper in the southern state of Oaxaca says one of its police beat reporters has been found dead.

El Imparcial newspaper condemned the killing of reporter Alberto Lopez, who was found Wednesday along with another unidentified man on a street in Oaxaca City.

The daily demanded authorities conduct a thorough investigation and find those responsible for the slaying in a two-paragraph statement posted on its website. Officials confirmed Lopez's body was found but wouldn't say how he was killed or why.

Oaxaca state has remained mostly free of drug-related violence that has affected other areas of Mexico, where journalists have been targeted. The National Human Rights Commission says at least 84 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000.

News from The Associated Press