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Mexico returns 400 of 513 migrants found in trucks
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TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities returned about 400 migrants to their native Guatemala Wednesday, a day after they and 113 other migrants were found hidden inside two trailer trucks.

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Officials of Mexico's National Immigration Institute said the 113 migrants still being held are from nations that don't share borders with Mexico or are Guatemalan minors or women who require special treatment.

The 400 Guatemalan migrants were returned to their country in air-conditioned buses Wednesday, a stark contrast to the sweltering, overcrowded trailers where they were found.

The remaining migrants include 47 from El Salvador, 32 from Ecuador, 12 from India, six from Nepal, three from China and one each from the Dominican Republic and Honduras, as well as Guatemalan minors and women.

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The Associated Press: Mexico returns 400 of 513 migrants found in trucks

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Mexico was supposed to be stopping migrants from entering the US for decades. What are they trying to prove now?

 

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Mass Graves of Migrants Found in Texas...

Mass graves of migrants found in Falfurrias
Jun 20, 2014 - Unidentified migrants who died entering the United States were buried in mass graves in a South Texas cemetery, with remains found in trash bags, shopping bags, body bags, or no containers at all, researchers discovered.

In one burial, bones of three bodies were inside one body bag. In another instance, at least five people in body bags and smaller plastic bags were piled on top of each other, Baylor University anthropologist Lori Baker said. Skulls were found in biohazard bags — like the red plastic bags in receptacles at doctors’ offices — placed between coffins. “To me it’s just as shocking as the mass grave that you would picture in your head, and it’s just as disrespectful,” said Krista Latham, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Indianapolis. Bodies that were not already skeletonized before burial were found in varying states of decomposition, Baker said.

The bodies are believed to have been buried by a local funeral home since 2005 in the Sacred Heart Burial Park in Brooks County. The discovery came in the last two weeks as the pair of anthropologists and their students continued an all-volunteer, multiyear effort to identify migrants who have died of exposure while evading Border Patrol checkpoints in remote South Texas, where temperatures reach more than 100 degrees in the summer and there is little water and shade. Hundreds of people have died in just the last few years in Brooks County alone, where the discovery of the mass graves was made in the county-owned portion of the cemetery in Falfurrias.

The researchers and their students exhumed remains of 110 unidentified people from the cemetery in 2013. This summer they performed 52 exhumations, but more than 52 people were buried in those spaces. Because remains were commingled, and not all of the body bags were opened on-site, further study will be needed to determine the number of people recovered, Baker said. The researchers expect to return next year to exhume more remains.

The mass graves are yet another sign of U.S. immigration systems and policies overwhelmed by sheer numbers, and of their difficulty coping with the humanitarian aspects of illegal migration. Since October, the nation has struggled to house and process record numbers of minors fleeing civil and political unrest in Central America, many traveling alone. Migrants from Central America travel north along freight train lines in Mexico, leading to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and on to Brooks County. There, they set out on foot across rugged, remote, privately owned ranchlands, often led by guides associated with criminal gangs or left to find their way to the next highway north of the checkpoint, a 30-mile trek, or even longer for the lost.

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Mebbe dey don't wanna live like a refugee...

UN PUSHES FOR MIGRANTS TO BE CALLED REFUGEES
Jul 8,`14 -- United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum.

Officials with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees say they hope to see movement toward a regional agreement on that status Thursday when migration and interior department representatives from the U.S., Mexico, and Central America meet in Nicaragua. The group will discuss updating a 30-year-old declaration regarding the obligations that nations have to aid refugees. While such a resolution would lack any legal weight, the agency said it believes "the U.S. and Mexico should recognize that this is a refugee situation, which implies that they shouldn't be automatically sent to their home countries but rather receive international protection."

Most of the people widely considered to be refugees by the international community are fleeing more traditional political or ethnic conflicts like those in Syria or the Sudan. Central Americans would be among the first modern migrants considered refugees because they are fleeing violence and extortion at the hands of criminal gangs. Central America's Northern Triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras has become one of the most violent regions on earth in recent years, with swathes of all three countries under the control of drug traffickers and street gangs who rob, rape and extort ordinary citizens with impunity.

Young Central American migrants traveling together play cards on a parked boxcar as they wait for a northbound freight train at the station in Arriaga, Chiapas state, Mexico. United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum.

Honduras, a primary transit point for U.S.-bound cocaine, has the world's highest homicide rate for a nation that is not at war. Hondurans who are used to hiding indoors at night have been terrorized anew in recent months by a wave of attacks against churches, schools and buses. During a recent visit to the U.S., Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said migrants from his country were "displaced by war" and called on the United States to acknowledge that. Honduran police routinely are accused of civil rights violations. The AP has reported at least five cases of alleged gang members missing or killed after being taken into police custody in what critics and human rights advocates call death squads engaged in a wave of social cleansing of criminals.

Violence by criminal organizations spread after members of California street gangs were deported to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, where they overwhelmed weak and corrupt police forces. In El Salvador, the end of a truce between street gangs has led to a steep rise in homicides this year. Salvadorans heading north through Mexico who were interviewed by The Associated Press last month said there also was fear of the "Sombra Negra," or "Black Shadow" - groups of masked men in civilian clothes who are believed responsible for extrajudicial killings of teens in gang-controlled neighborhoods. The Salvadoran government denies any involvement in death squads, but says it is investigating the reports.

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Will They Be Deported? DHS Secretary: 'We Have to Do Right by the Children'
July 7, 2014 -- Speaking to NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson carefully avoided answering multiple questions about the deportation of some 50,000 children who have come to this country illegally from Central America so far this year.

"We have to do right by the children," Johnson said. "I have personally encountered enough of them to know that we have to do right by the children, but at the end of the day, in the final analysis, our border is not open to illegal migration, and we will stem the tide." It took Johnson several minutes to arrive at the suggestion that many of the unaccompanied minors flooding into the United States will never leave here. "Are you prepared to deport these children?" NBC's David Gregory asked Johnson near the beginning of the interview. Here's how it went from there: "Our message to those who come here illegally -- our border is not open to illegal migration, and we are taking a number of steps to address it, including turning people around faster," Johnson responded. "We've already dramatically reduced the turnaround time, the deportation time, for the adults." Johnson also said the administration is asking Congress for more money to "bring on additional capacity," and he said the administration is "cracking down" on the smugglers.

Should the children be deported? Gregory asked him again. Johnson replied that the law requires unaccompanied children to be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services, and for deportation proceedings to begin. He said those proceedings "can take some time, and so we're looking at options, added flexibility to deal with the children in particular, but in a humanitarian and fair way -- "It sounds like a very careful response," Gregory told Johnson. " Are they going to be deported or not?" "There is a deportation proceeding that is commenced against illegal migrants, including children. We are looking at ways to create additional options for dealing with the children in particular, consistent with our laws and our values." "I'm trying to get an answer to will most of them end up staying, in your judgment?" Gregory asked again. "I think we need to find more efficient, effective ways to turn this tide around generally, and we've already begun to do that," Johnson dodged. "Very quickly, what does that mean? Are you saying it's impractical to deport all of them who are here now?" Gregory asked.

"I'm saying that we've already -- we've already dramatically reduced the turnaround time for the adults, and we're in the process of doing that for the adults with the kids. We're looking at additional options for the kids in particular." "To deport them or to settle them here in America?" Gregory asked. "The goal of the administration is to stem the tide and send the message unequivocally that if you come now, you will turned around," Johnson said. "What about the thousands of children who are here now? What is the goal of the administration? To settle them in America or to deport them back to situations that might be even life-threatening?" Gregory asked. "There is a deportation proceeding pending against everyone who comes into this country illegally and is apprehended at the border," Johnson said. (The problem is, many illegal immigrants who blend into the greater U.S. population never show up for their deportation hearings.)

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Cut Off Aid to Countries That Don't Keep Their Illegal Kids Out of the US
July 7, 2014 – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” proposed Sunday that the U.S. cut off aid to countries whose unaccompanied illegal minors enter the U.S. if those countries “don’t keep them and take care of them.”

“About a third of the little girls are raped in the process of getting here. It's a humanitarian problem, but it's apart from immigration reform. This is a specific problem created by an impression that if you get to America, you can stay. We have got to turn that impression around, send these children back to their homeland and tell countries in question if you don't keep them and take care of them, we're going to cut all aid off,” Graham said.

As CNSNews.com previously reported, more than 50,000 unaccompanied illegal minors have crossed the border since January, and 60,000 to 90,000 additional such minors are expected to cross into the U.S. by the end of the year. Customs and Border Protectionreported a 99 percent uptick in the number of illegal minors crossing the southwest border in the last year.

Thomas Homan, executive associate director for ICE, enforcement and removal operations, testified before the House Judiciary Committee last month that 87 percent of unaccompanied illegal minors who crossed the border and were given notices to appear before an immigration court judge in the last five years still have no final orders, CNSNews.com reported.

Graham said if the U.S. does not send these children back, it will “incentivize” people from that part of the world to keep sending their children to the U.S. “We have to send them back, because if you don't, you're going to incentivize people throughout that part of the world to keep sending their children here,” Graham said.

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