Mexico Tortures Migrants

[Geaux4it]

And sends their rapist and murderers here.

-Geaux

Mexico tortures migrants – and citizens – in effort to slow Central American surge

A growing number of indigenous Mexicans are being detained by agents looking for Central American migrants, amid a crackdown driven partly by aid from US


Esther Juárez, 15 and her sister Amy, 24. Photograph: Nina Lakhani
Nina Lakhani in Ocosingo

Monday 4 April 2016 07.10 EDTLast modified on Monday 4 April 2016 21.21 EDT
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Amy and Esther Juárez were edgy with excitement as they boarded the bus full of seasonal workers heading for a farm at the other end of Mexico from their home in the poverty-stricken southern state of Chiapas.

Although their brother Alberto,18, had made the same journey the previous year, it was the first time Amy, 24, and Esther, 15, had left the tiny indigenous community where they had grown up.

But about half-way there, immigration agents boarded the bus, and after checking all the passengers’ papers, ordered the three siblings to get off.

Mexico tortures migrants – and citizens – in effort to slow Central American surge

 

[Moonglow]

Mexico is a pretty good deal right now, what with 17 peso's to the dollar..I can afford to go to Mexico and torture titties..

 

[Agit8r]

Despicable. And we are funding these assholes.

 

[Geaux4it]

We are concerned from a humanity standpoint you know. Kind of like the way we turn a blind eye to the killing fields of Chicago

Can't see it from my house

-Geaux

 

[TheOldSchool]

Despicable. And we are funding these assholes.

Remember, they're our backyard and this thread was posted by a crazy person.

 

[Moonglow]

We are concerned from a humanity standpoint you know. Kind of like the way we turn a blind eye to the killing fields of Chicago

Can't see it from my house

-Geaux

What the hell do you plan to do about it?

 

[WildBillKelsoe]

Despicable. And we are funding these assholes.

That's right. All those illegal aliens you're so fond of are funneling billions of dollars into the Mexican economy, which by default means the Mexican government. In sure you're very proud.

 

[Geaux4it]

We are concerned from a humanity standpoint you know. Kind of like the way we turn a blind eye to the killing fields of Chicago

Can't see it from my house

-Geaux

What the hell do you plan to do about it?

Vote anything BUT democrat for starters

-Geaux

 

[Moonglow]

We are concerned from a humanity standpoint you know. Kind of like the way we turn a blind eye to the killing fields of Chicago

Can't see it from my house

-Geaux

What the hell do you plan to do about it?

Vote anything BUT democrat for starters

-Geaux

I am sure that will git er done...

 

[Agit8r]

Despicable. And we are funding these assholes.

That's right. All those illegal aliens you're so fond of are funneling billions of dollars into the Mexican economy, which by default means the Mexican government. In sure you're very proud.

 

[waltky]

Mexican narco-war has crimes against humanity on both sides...

Mexico committed ‘crimes against humanity’: report
Wed, Jun 08, 2016 - Mexican authorities and a feared gang have committed “crimes against humanity” during the nation’s decade-long drug war, a US-based nongovernmental organization said on Monday.

A report by the Open Society Justice Initiative, which seeks to combat human rights abuses around the world, said more than 150,000 people were “murdered intentionally” and thousands more disappeared between 2006 and last year. The New York-based organization found “reasonable grounds” to conclude that crimes against humanity were committed by “state and non-state actors,” namely the Zetas drug cartel.

The report said Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government “must act without delay to recognize the gravity of the situation.” The Justice Initiative said the goal of the report is not for the International Criminal Court to take up the cases. Rather, the objective “is for the authors of these atrocious crimes to be tried with all the weight of the law, independently of their origin, in their own jurisdiction,” it added.

However, the report said the international tribunal should remain an option “if Mexico systematically continues to not investigate and try atrocious crimes.” A government statement said that in the “exceptional cases” that local or federal officials have violated human rights, they have been put on trial and sentenced. “The immense majority of violent crimes have been committed by criminal organizations,” it said.

Mexico committed ‘crimes against humanity’: report - Taipei Times

 

[waltky]

New Mexico/Mexico has become a killing ground...

Girl's killing is New Mexico's latest horrific child death
August 26, 2016 — The killing this week of a 10-year-old Albuquerque girl who was drugged, raped and dismembered is just the latest horrific child slaying case for New Mexico, which has the nation's highest youth poverty rate and a state government that has had heavily publicized difficulties protecting children from abuse.

Victoria Martens was not known to have been a victim of previous violent abuse. But officials acknowledged Friday that the man accused of injecting her with methamphetamine before raping her was not being monitored by probation officers or tested for drugs as mandated by a judge last year. In that case, 31-year-old Fabian Gonzales was arrested for beating another woman in a car with a baby inside it while the woman was driving and ended up pleading no contest to two misdemeanor crimes that kept him out of jail. Corrections department officials said Friday they never got the judge's order for him to be supervised by probation officers. Victoria's death follows a 40-year prison sentence handed down in May for an Albuquerque woman for the 2013 kicking death of her 9-year-old son. That case prompted an overhaul of the New Mexico state agency that investigates child abuse.

That same month, an 11-year Navajo girl was taken to a desolate area by a stranger who sexually assaulted her, bludgeoned her and left her to die. "We have a litany of little angels who are crying at us from the grave," said Allen Sanchez, executive director of the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops. New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Secretary Monique Jacobson said Friday that state records showed no prior cases involving violence or sexual abuse against Victoria. The agency has joined police in the investigation into the death. Jacobson said she was prohibited by law from disclosing whether the agency had received any other complaints related to Victoria, described by neighbors from her blue-collar apartment complex as a seemingly happy and sociable girl who loved to swim and dance.

The others charged in Victoria's death are her mother, Michelle Martens, and Gonzales' cousin Jessica Kelley. While Martens has no online record of an arrest in New Mexico, she told police Kelley had been released from jail just days before Victoria's death. The three face charges of child abuse resulting in death, kidnapping and tampering with evidence. Gonzales and Kelley are also charged of criminal sexual penetration of a minor. There were conflicting reports from state officials Friday over communication of probation requirements imposed on Gonzales between court administrators and the New Mexico Department of Corrections.

Deputy Corrections Secretary Alex Sanchez said her agency never received a judgment and sentence order mandating supervised probation for Gonzales. It was meant to ensure he committed no crimes and threatened jail time as punishment for violations like illegal drug use. Second Judicial District Court spokesman Tim Korte said records show the documents were forwarded to the corrections department in February 2015. Martens worked at a local grocery store, said neighbors who knew little else about her, and told detectives she met Gonzales online about a month before her daughter's death.

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Experts: True Number of Mexico’s Homicide Victims May Never be Known
September 8, 2016 – Thousands of citizens are murdered in Mexico’s drug war each year, but experts say clandestine mass graves, inadequate forensics and corrupt local law enforcement make it impossible to know the true scale of the killings.

The Mexican online publication Zetatijuana claimed in an investigation released this week that 78,109 citizens have been murdered since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in December of 2012 – an average of 21,199 homicides annually for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015. But the true homicide rate might actually be higher, Zetatijuana said. The Department of the Interior reported 63,816 homicides since Peña Nieto took office, the investigation said. It accused the government of covering up the actual number of killings. Francisco Rivas, director of a citizens’ group promoting justice and security, Observatorio Nacional Ciudadano, said the figure of 78,109 total homicides reported by Zetatijuana may be “relatively reliable.”

Rivas said, however, that there was “no evidence” to support the charge of an intentional cover-up. But he contended that the government’s methods for recording homicides are far from trustworthy. To begin with, recording homicides is the responsibility of local rather than federal officials, Rivas said, adding that local law enforcement agencies do not adequately investigate homicides. Errors recording homicides also occur at state and local levels, due to lack of training and equipment and inadequate forensics, he said. Bodies left in clandestine mass graves linked to organized crime violence may never be identified, so those deaths were not reported.

And when citizens go to local authorities to report a homicide, Rivas said, the authorities often “minimize the problem,” and some cases do not even investigate. “At this point, I don’t know what to believe,” said Dr. Hiram Beltran Sanchez, a health and population expert at UCLA, and the lead author of a study of life expectancy and Mexico’s murder rate released last January. “I would go so far as to say probably Mexico doesn’t know the precise homicide rate, or if they do, they don’t put it in the official data because there are so many discrepancies in the data sources,” Beltran said. What is certain, though, was that drug-related violence in Mexico, formerly restricted to the northern regions bordering the U.S. according to his research in 2005 and 2010, has since spread south to many other parts of the country.

Beltran said there is “generalized violence throughout the country,” with the most violent states being Mexico, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Colima, Michoacán, Veracruz, Tamaulipas and Mexico City. Tristan Reed, a Mexico security analyst with the Texas-based independent intelligence analysis firm Stratfor, agreed that Mexico has seen significant reductions in crime in the north as the violence has shifted further south, and away from more populous areas. Reed said Peña Nieto’s administration has made “very modest and in some cases unnoticeable gains in security.” But compared to the previous administration of former President Felipe Calderon, he said, the incumbent president has achieved “significant reductions in homicides.” But while the country’s northern cities, such as Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo and Juarez, have seen “significant reductions” in violence, there’s been a recent increase in Tijuana, Reed said.

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[waltky]

How two-faced ya wanna get here?...

Experts: Mexican President’s Defense of Migrants at UN Doesn’t Square With Reality at Home
September 22, 2016 – Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto this week delivered a vigorous case for respecting migrants, but immigration experts say his words are at odds with the reality of how Mexico treats migrants fleeing violence in Central America.

Addressing the U.N. Summit for Refugees and Migrants on Monday, Peña Nieto said “Mexicans believe that the mixing of cultures and races is the future and destiny of humanity.” “Cultures are revitalized and enriched when they live together and talk to each other. Migrants have been the principal partners in this,” he said. “We must put migrants, along with their rights, dignity and well-being in the center of the global dialogue.” Peña Nieto called for a focus on human rights establishing the obligations of all states towards migrants; recognition of migrants’ contribution to economic and social development; and social inclusion to help eliminate intolerance, prejudice and racism. Mexico’s actual treatment of migrants, however, is “absolutely dysfunctional,” according to Javier Reyes, an expert on migrants at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City.

Reyes said in an email the president’s words were “narrative without content,” and that migrants entering Mexico “continue to face severe problems,” including extortion, theft, fraud and human trafficking by organized crime. They are not welcomed by Mexico “under any circumstances.” Reyes said that Argentinian, Brazilian, and Chilean migrants are treated better by the Mexican government and have “on average fewer problems of integrating into Mexican society” than Colombians, Ecuadorians, or Venezuelans. He said the president does not have a clear idea of what a migration policy means, “or how to have an instrumental dialogue with Central American nations about international cooperation so as to define migration strategies.”

Mexico detained and deported approximately 130,000 Central American migrants last year, including more than 35,000 unaccompanied children, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, according to Gretchen Kuhner of the Women in Migration Institute in Mexico City. “Mexico has a restrictive policy that is supported by the U.S. to try to contain or dissuade Central American refugees from reaching the U.S.,” she said. The institute has filed a lawsuit on behalf of three indigenous farm workers from Chiapas who were detained by immigration authorities for eight days at a detention center in the city of Queretaro. “One of the boys who was there had electrical shock to his hands because they thought he was Guatemalan and they thought he was lying,” Kuhner said. Recent studies by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees show that between 50-60 percent of the people leaving Central America have international protection needs, she said. “Mexico has to change the way it deals with migrants because it is now dealing with refugees,” she added.

One change made by the government has been to reform the Constitution to “acknowledge the human right to seek and receive asylum,” according to a report released Monday by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA.) A unit dedicated to investigating crimes against immigrants has also been created within the federal attorney general’s office, it noted. But the report criticized the treatment of migrants fleeing into Mexico, where 425,058 had been detained between 2014 and 2016. It also called the level of recognition of refugees by the government “shockingly low.” “Migrant shelters throughout the country continue to document kidnappings, extortions, robberies, and other abuses, many at the hands of corrupt officials,” the report found. According to WOLA, Mexico deported some 181,163 migrants last year, and another 83,383 in the first six month of 2016. This year could account for “the highest number of detentions, deportations, and asylum petitions” yet recorded in Mexico.

Experts: Mexican President’s Defense of Migrants at UN Doesn’t Square With Reality at Home

 

[WheelieAddict]

Trump wants to fund them to build his wall.

 

[Yousaidwhat]

Mexico is a pretty good deal right now, what with 17 peso's to the dollar..I can afford to go to Mexico and torture titties..

Primo good, sir.