Two Mexican migrants were shot to death in a dawn attack near Tecate, across the border from California.
The cause of the shooting is not known, but migrant crossings often involve agreements with local cartels for right of passage. Migrants are sometimes shot if their smuggler is working for a rival gang or if they haven’t paid passage rights.In one notable case in 2021, Tamaulipas state police, including at least 14 Guatemalan migrants, then burned their bodies. A court recently convicted 11 officers of homicide.
In that case, officers had initially argued they were responding to shots fired and believed they were chasing Gulf cartel vehicles. But the state police burned the bodies in an attempt to cover up the crime.on Mexico’s northern and southern borders in a desperate bid to reach the U.S. In Chiapas, one of three southern Mexican states to border Guatemala, a truck flipped on the highway Thursday, killing two Central American migrants and injuring another 19.in the state of Coahuila near the Texas border.
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