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Mexico raided migrant train 153 times in last year
Associated Press ^ | Mar 3, 2015 8:24 PM EST

Posted on 03/03/2015 8:12:39 PM PST by Olog-hai

Mexican authorities said Tuesday they staged 153 raids over the last year on a train known as “La Bestia” that rolled toward the U.S. border crowded with hundreds of Central American migrants.

Following a big surge in child migrants reaching the U.S. border last year, Mexico’s government cracked down on routes commonly used by migrants to travel from Guatemala to the U.S. border.

The head of the National Immigration Institute, Ardelio Vargas, said the 153 train raids were part of 758 immigration inspections over the last year. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: centralamerica; childillegals; guatemala; illegalimmigration; illegals; illegalsinvasion; immigration; labestia; mexico; migrant; nii; raided; raids; thebeast; train
Must be an act of love.
1 posted on 03/03/2015 8:12:39 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Terrible for those who end up in the sex slave trade. Pure evil.


2 posted on 03/03/2015 8:24:40 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Olog-hai

Mexico is doing more to slow down the invasion than our own government.


3 posted on 03/03/2015 8:25:01 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (GOP-RIP 3/3/2015)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes, apparently Mexico doesn’t like Mexicans-In-Waiting coming from Guatemala.


4 posted on 03/03/2015 8:30:11 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (#JuSuisCharlesMartel)
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To: Olog-hai

The Mexicans just raid the migrants to rip them off, they send them right on to the US border when they are done with them.


5 posted on 03/03/2015 8:50:34 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: Olog-hai

1. Officers can rob the men

2. Officers can rape the women

3. Officers can thwart the process of “extra” US jobs from going to non-Mexicans, instead of Mexicans who would otherwise remit US money back to Mexico.


6 posted on 03/03/2015 8:59:10 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Olog-hai

Raided it? What did they do, take people off it or put them on it?


7 posted on 03/03/2015 9:32:58 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: jmacusa

The AP will never clarify.


8 posted on 03/03/2015 9:39:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
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And Gregg Abbot says that 60,000 were apprehended coming into TX in the last 2 months.

BP says they only catch 1 in 5 or 1 in 10. They have no idea.

9 posted on 03/04/2015 12:45:42 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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