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What a bunch of hypocrites Mexican authorities are. It is OK for them to deport illegals but not the US????

Just what is wrong with that picture? The closure of an American-run railroad in Mexico stranded thousands of U.S.-bound Central American migrants near the Guatemala border and many of them were deported Wednesday by immigration authorities. Some camped along rail lines waiting for trains that will never come. Others tried to walk hundreds of kilometers (miles) to the next working rail line and some turned themselves in to Mexican authorities. The government sent hundreds of federal police and soldiers Tuesday to clear out the migrants, who for decades have hopped freight cars on the Chiapas-Mayab railway. The company has run freight trains on two sets of tracks in southern Mexico — one that passes near Guatemala's northern jungle, and another that goes from the Guatemalan border up the western coast. In late July, the Connecticut-based Genesee & Wyoming Inc. withdrew from a 30-year concession to operate the Chiapas-Mayab line. Company spokeswoman Jeanette Rosado said damage to railway tracks caused by a 2005 hurricane forced the pullout. She also said rail workers had been assaulted, and that train-hopping migrants delayed operations and cost the company money.Mexico's National Immigration Institute did not respond to requests for comment. Central American consulates said extra buses had been contracted to transport deportees from immigration detention centers to the border. Thousands more migrants were stuck at the town of Ariaga in neighboring Chiapas state, and Salvadoran Consul Nelson Cuellar said many had started walking toward a rail line in Coatzacoalcos, almost 500 kilometers (300 miles) away. "That is a marathon walk" through countryside where the threat of being assaulted or robbed is constant, he said. The railroad's closure may lead more migrants to hire smugglers, who often transport them in trucks. Police recently found several trucks filled with people crammed into hidden compartments, often without adequate air or water. Franciscan brother Juan Pablo Chavez Vargas, who runs a shelter for migrants in Tenosique, said smugglers and others who profit from the flow of migrants have encouraged them to keep coming. "They are telling them, 'The train will come, just wait. The train will come,'" Chavez Vargas said. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/15/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-Stranded-Migrants.php

Public Comments

1. as corrupt as they are, they know what to do when it comes to controlling immigration on their land. . .its a shame the US can't even enforce half of what is already on the books. . .
2. Yes we provide 20 billion to Mexico's economy and this past weekend the president talked down and told us what to do. And who is this panel of foreign judges telling the USA we have to let trucks enter under NAFTA. I know the left here looks to the rest of the world and we are seeing the results of this and the runaway legal system the left wants to use to over ride the Constitution and take all of our rights away. OKibs you are getting what you asked for and you also Unions.
3. I hope bush is paying attention
4. They are hypocrites. Everyone wants to take take take take from the American people but no one is willing to make their own country better.
5. The elites in Mexico have not kept 95 % of the wealth in 5% of the people because they do not know how to play to their base
6. It's called,do as I say,not as I do.
7. The illegal immigrant were deported by request of the same illegals when they realized they were in a place where the train wont ever come. get it.
8. Yeah they are hypocrites in every sense of the word. We should make more of an effort to round up the illegals here and send them back to where they belong. All local cops should be allowed to arrest illegals and transfer them to the nearest federal lock up so they can be deported. Juar: If they are requesting to be returned to their homeland the soldiers wouldn't be needed now would they? The government wouldn't waste the money rounding them up for deportation, if they wanted to go they would be standing in line waiting for the bus home.
9. well i was waiting to hear what they had to say but i only hear crickets from them Regio you make a interesting argument but i do think they are stopping them just not enough of them i give you thumbs up
10. Listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.. American complaint about illigals coming into the US, Here is a train full of immigrants on their way to the US (of course) and you complaint the the Mexicans deport them back to Central or South America. The US have told the Mexican Immigration officers to stop letting immigrants cross the Mexican Border to head to the US, and we have all these idiots calling the Mexican Immigration hypocrites. You people have a lot to learn. I dont see the US Immigration officers stopping illegal Aliens from crossing the border. There you have your hard dollars at work.. Complaint about that hypocrites.
11. What is really sorry is that our hire help has not told the Mexican Government to put a sock in it!
12. Mexico has never allowed illegal immigrants and some of the tales of what happens to them are drastic. However, I think this particular move is part of the SPP plan. The idea between Bush and Mexico is that Mexico would defend their southern border, and eventually it would in essence become our JOINT southern border. I think by doing this and going after the drug trade (with our billions, military training and materiel) they plan to make Americans more confident of Mexico.