Mexican police and immigration agents detain hundreds of Central American migrants heading to US border
A Central American migrant is detained by Immigration officers during a raid on his journey towards the United States, in Pijijiapan, Mexico April 22, 2019.
As migrants gathered under spots of shade in the burning heat outside the city of Pijijiapan, federal police and agents passed by in patrol trucks and vans and forcibly wrestled women, men and children into the vehicles.The migrants were driven to buses, presumably for subsequent transportation to an immigration station for deportation processing. As many as 500 migrants might have been picked up in the raid, according to Associated Press journalists at the scene.
Escobar vowed that he will never return to his hometown of San Pedro Sula, saying "the gangs are kidnapping everyone back there." After seeing what happened, some migrants began walking in dense groupings and picked up stones and sticks.Officials from the National Human Rights Commission observed the action from a distance.
Last Friday, local media reported a series of detentions of migrants in nearby Mapastepec, where thousands were awaiting normalization of their migratory status. Mexico already allows the United States to return some asylum seekers to Mexico as their cases play out. And government officials said in March they would try to contain migrants heading north at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest part of the country's south and easiest to control. Pijijiapan and Mapastepec are on the isthmus.
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