TAPACHULA (Reuters) – More than a thousand migrants broke out of a detention center in southern Mexico on Thursday evening, authorities said, in a fresh sign of how a surge in arrivals has stretched the country’s resources to the limit.
More than half of the roughly 1,300 migrants later returned to the Siglo XXI facility in the border city of Tapachula in Chiapas state, but about 600 are still unaccounted for, the National Migration Institute said in a statement.
Migrants from Cuba, who make up the majority of the people being held at the center, were largely behind the breakout, the institute added. Mexican newspaper Reforma reported that Haitians and Central Americans were also among those who fled the facility, which has been crammed with people.
Mexico has returned 15,000 migrants in the past 30 days, officials have said, amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to stem the flow of people north.
On Wednesday Trump reiterated threats to close part of the U.S.-Mexico border if Mexico doesn’t block what described as a new caravan of migrants headed north.
The majority of migrants moving through Mexico are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, but Cubans are also joining in large numbers. More than 1,000 people from Cuba are now in Chiapas, according to Mexican officials.
(Reporting by Jose Torres in Tapachula; Dave Graham and Daina Beth Solomon in Mexico City; Editing by Michael Perry)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-1-000-migrants-break-southern-mexico-detention-042815856.html
OMG!! I just thought of this old song. Were we being played? Was this revelation of the method?
Galen, several yrs. back I was listening to this song. I can’s remember if it was on the radio. In this song one of the lines was to this effect- bring your homosexuals. I swear this on a stack of bibles. I literally could not believe what I heard, yet I know I heard it.
Yesterday on the car radio I heard for the first time this song byWillieNelson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqIyIvL-gBs
Wow, Katie, I do believe you heard right. Anything can be altered anytime. Well, ‘cept for The Bill of Rights that is. (Ha! Someone said, “Never miss an opportunity to throw that in.” Guess who. 🙂 )
And Willie Nelson’s song… It has some mixed messages. Maybe he’s conflicted? Can one be in that industry and not be compromised? One wonders.
On Neil Diamond’s “Coming to America,” silly me, I always thought it was about people coming here to get stoned.
🙂
Perhaps the song was about getting stoned of which we’ve failed miserably.
I like the idea of stoning these illegals out of here.
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geK.jwysRc8l4AemhXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTBybGY3bmpvBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg–/RV=2/RE=1556429681/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.usatoday.com%2fstory%2flife%2fmusic%2f2018%2f10%2f01%2fwillie-nelson-rallies-beto-orourke-texas-new-song%2f1488250002%2f/RK=2/RS=qeyat1TXrydZ.N8AQbX1TrUm4ts-
OH NO!!
Geez, Martist, you coulda warned me to get a barf barf bag before reading viewing this.
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“The majority of migrants moving through Mexico are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, but Cubans are also joining in large numbers.”
You can add Haitians & Africans to that list of INVADERS now.
“… in addition to Central Americans, it is made up of people from Cuba, Haiti, and Africa.”
https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/mother-of-all-caravans-heads-north-10k-migrants-due-in-mexico-city-any-day/245766#comment-1504791
And I saw it pointed out that those from Africa are dirt poor, which begs the question of who’s funding.
How could anyone still not see we are in the middle of a well organized invasion?
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Sorry about that willie nelson thing, galen. Blech!
No problem. Guess I’m getting used to icons toppling.
Sigh…