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Caravan of up to 2,000 migrants headed to the US from Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America is abruptly stopped and detained by Mexico
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • It's estimated up to 2,000 people were part of the caravan stopped Saturday

  • Hundreds of migrants were said to have been detained on Sunday

  • The migrants were largely from Africa, the Carribean and Central America

  • They were heading north through Mexico, attempting to reach the US

  • Many had been marooned for months in Tapachula, Mexico, unsuccessfully trying to get transit visas.

  • Mexican National Guard agents and police stopped the caravan on the highway at the end of the day’s 20 mile hike

  • The migrants were put on buses to take them back where they had started

  • It's unclear if the migrants will be deported back to their home countries

Related:
Two Dead as Migrant Boat Sinks off Mexico

[AnNahar] A small boat carrying African migrants colonists off the coast of southern Mexico sank Friday, leaving two people dead and one missing, authorities said.

The boat was traveling off the southern border state of Chiapas when it listed to one side, pitching its occupants into the water, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.

A 39-year-old man was found dead, it added, washed up on the shore. A second body was later located a few hundred metres from the first.

A search operation "managed to rescue eight migrants colonists alive," the prosecutor's office said, adding one person was still missing.

All were from Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, a country that has seen a growing exodus of refugees amid an increasingly violent conflict between its French- and English-speaking communities.

Chiapas is a main crossroads for migrants colonists crossing Mexico toward the United States. They are mostly Central Americans, but in recent years there has been an increasing number of Africans, who often fly to South America and then make long treks overland and by boat.

African migrants colonists in Chiapas regularly stage protests demanding the Mexican authorities allow them to continue their journey toward the United States.

Undocumented migrants colonists regularly use boats to evade the authorities in southern Mexico, where the government has deployed 6,000 National Guardsmen to tighten the border.

The move is part of its efforts to crack down on irregular migration under a deal to avoid US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
's threat to impose steep tariffs on Mexican goods.

Under the deal, the Mexican government has deployed another 15,000 National Guardsmen along its northern border and accepted the return of more than 50,000 migrants colonists seeking asylum in the US, who must now wait in Mexico while their claims are processed.
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-10-14
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