immigration
(Español) Agentes de migración torturan hasta a mexicanos para frenar a migrantes
Agentes del INM torturan hasta a mexicanos para frenar migrantes
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Ciudad de México.- Agentes del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) están involucrados en la detención de mexicanos, a quienes, por provenir de comunidades indígenas, intentan deportar a Centroamérica mediante amenazas y malos tratos, revela un reportaje publicado este día por The Guardian.
El diario británico menciona que esta ofensiva ocurre en medio del Plan Frontera Sur y de la estrategia impulsada desde el Gobierno de Estados Unidos para frenar el flujo de migrantes que atraviesan México para cruzar su frontera norte.
Los datos refieren que agentes migratorios han recurrido a amenazas, malos tratos e incluso tortura, contra mexicanos indígenas para obligarlos a decir que provienen de otros países de Centroamérica. Organizaciones sociales consultadas por el medio dijeron que lo anterior es para cubrir “cuotas”. (Continuar leyendo…)
Mexico tortures migrants and citizens to slow flow of Central Americans
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 12.10 BST6
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. (Continuar leyendo…)