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Mexico all but empties migrant shelters under coronavirus
Reuters ^ | April 26, 2010

Posted on 04/26/2020 2:47:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has almost entirely cleared out its migrant shelters over the past five weeks to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, returning most of the occupants to their countries of origin, official data showed on Sunday.

In a statement, the National Migration Institute (INM) said that in order to comply with health and safety guidelines, since March 21 it had been removing migrants from Mexico’s 65 migrant facilities, which were harboring 3,759 people last month.

In the intervening weeks, Mexico has returned 3,653 migrants to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador by road and air with the result that only 106 people remain in the shelters, it said.

The vast majority of those sent back were migrants detained by authorities because they were in Mexico illegally, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Some no longer wished to stay in shelters due to the risk of coronavirus infection, the official added.

Most of the migrants passing through Mexico to reach the U.S. border are from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; illegalaliens; mexico; migrants; pandemic

1 posted on 04/26/2020 2:47:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So why couldn’t they have done this all along? Soros money?


2 posted on 04/26/2020 2:50:13 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Make sure they ALL go south.


3 posted on 04/26/2020 2:51:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wonder how you say

“Get them the hell outta here”

in ‘espanole”???


4 posted on 04/26/2020 2:53:04 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas ( (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, imagine that.....it CAN be done!


5 posted on 04/26/2020 2:54:15 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: BenLurkin

Make sure they ALL go south.

= = =

From the article....

In the intervening weeks, Mexico has returned 3,653 migrants to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador by road and air


6 posted on 04/26/2020 2:55:12 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

AMF!


7 posted on 04/26/2020 3:18:45 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mexico has been ripe for an overwhelming surge of illegals coming to the US to get free medical treatment for Coronavirus. It was reported Trump already ordered military vehicles and soldiers to stand ready for that. CNN will call him a racist xenophobe.

Let CNN house them all in their mansions and front lawns on gurneys. Not us.


8 posted on 04/26/2020 3:59:19 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now can we clear out all of our own migrant shelters and send them home? It’s for their own safety, of course.


9 posted on 04/26/2020 4:18:17 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good. Continue sending these illegals back home, and they’ll stop coming. Mexico and the United States should both deport all illegals. No exceptions.


10 posted on 04/26/2020 5:42:19 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: AlaskaErik

“So why couldn’t they have done this all along? “

obviously they could have ...


11 posted on 04/26/2020 10:00:11 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

#winning.


12 posted on 04/26/2020 10:36:24 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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