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New video from Mexico’s border with Guatemala shows a chaotic scene as scores of officers with the Federal Police and National Guard detain dozens of African men in Tapachula.
Ruptly, an “international video news agency,” posted the video early Wednesday.
The footage shows several dozen African men, many of them shirtless, as they shouted, snapped their fingers, and waived at the camera as they sat and mulled about near a border gate, as about the same number of National Guard and Federal Police stood decked out in riot gear, including helmets and bullet-proof vests.
At least one man in the video appears to be a translator, working to relay messages from the shouting mob.
The video seemingly confirms a deal with Mexico negotiated by President Trump is working to halt the flood of illegal immigrants through Mexico into the United States, a crisis that escalated over the last year, initially with migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Sympathy for the poor migrants in Mexico, meanwhile, is quickly wearing thin.
The Catholic News Service reports:
Last fall, locals in southern Chiapas state welcomed the caravans of migrants crossing into Mexico from Guatemala and carrying on northward to the U.S. border. They offered everything from food and drink to clothing and shoes to the caravan travelers, who often included children.
Parishes throughout the Diocese of Tapachula mobilized to meet the needs of thousands of mostly Central American migrants — many fleeing violence, poverty and drought. Sister Bertha’s congregation, the Guadalajara-based Missionaries of the Resurrected Christ, tended to the wounds of weary migrants in a mobile medical clinic.
But many locals no longer welcome migrants in Chiapas. Municipal governments, meanwhile, have shunned them by blocking access to town squares, where members of caravans often slept and sought basic services. Local government officials complain of being forced to shoulder security, sanitation and cleanup costs.
“People no longer respond to the immigration issue,” Father Cesar Canaveral Perez, director of migrant ministries in Tapachula, told the news site. “(They) no longer help out. It’s to the point that in parishes we no longer ask for assistance for migrants.”
Sister Bertha Lopez described the “climate of apathy” that’s taken hold.
“If (people) see some migrants, they close their stores,” she said.
More at: http://www.theamericanmirror.com/vi...a-border-hold-back-surge-of-african-migrants/
Ruptly, an “international video news agency,” posted the video early Wednesday.
Guards deployed at southern border after #Trump migrant deal#Mexico pic.twitter.com/KGaCiGpXEs
— Ruptly (@Ruptly) June 19, 2019
“Guards deployed at southern border after #Trump migrant deal,” the message read.— Ruptly (@Ruptly) June 19, 2019
The footage shows several dozen African men, many of them shirtless, as they shouted, snapped their fingers, and waived at the camera as they sat and mulled about near a border gate, as about the same number of National Guard and Federal Police stood decked out in riot gear, including helmets and bullet-proof vests.
At least one man in the video appears to be a translator, working to relay messages from the shouting mob.
The video seemingly confirms a deal with Mexico negotiated by President Trump is working to halt the flood of illegal immigrants through Mexico into the United States, a crisis that escalated over the last year, initially with migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Sympathy for the poor migrants in Mexico, meanwhile, is quickly wearing thin.
The Catholic News Service reports:
Last fall, locals in southern Chiapas state welcomed the caravans of migrants crossing into Mexico from Guatemala and carrying on northward to the U.S. border. They offered everything from food and drink to clothing and shoes to the caravan travelers, who often included children.
Parishes throughout the Diocese of Tapachula mobilized to meet the needs of thousands of mostly Central American migrants — many fleeing violence, poverty and drought. Sister Bertha’s congregation, the Guadalajara-based Missionaries of the Resurrected Christ, tended to the wounds of weary migrants in a mobile medical clinic.
But many locals no longer welcome migrants in Chiapas. Municipal governments, meanwhile, have shunned them by blocking access to town squares, where members of caravans often slept and sought basic services. Local government officials complain of being forced to shoulder security, sanitation and cleanup costs.
“People no longer respond to the immigration issue,” Father Cesar Canaveral Perez, director of migrant ministries in Tapachula, told the news site. “(They) no longer help out. It’s to the point that in parishes we no longer ask for assistance for migrants.”
Sister Bertha Lopez described the “climate of apathy” that’s taken hold.
“If (people) see some migrants, they close their stores,” she said.
More at: http://www.theamericanmirror.com/vi...a-border-hold-back-surge-of-african-migrants/
