Mexican Police struggle to beat back African migrants trying to illegally cross into Mexico

[Secure Da Bag]

I thought the Mexicans were cool with the Haitians

In Mexico's border city, Haitians hailed as success story

Stopped at U.S. border, Haitians find “Mexican dream” instead – The Denver Post

Tijuana’s Haitian immigrants seen as a model for other newcomers

Living the Mexican dream - WORLD

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

Just remember people. These posters I tagged are quick to cape for Mexicans but are ghost when Mexicans show their racist nature.

Don’t take anything they say seriously.

U just talking out ur ass

U ever seen what the Mexican police/army do in a real protest?

Trust me, they ain't gonna come just shields like they did in this video


This is what the video was for

Military police officers clash with migrants from Africa, Haiti and other countries during a protest in front of an immigration center in Tapachula, Mexico, demanding free transit through the country to reach the United States, Tuesday, August 27

 

[BigMan]

Because its better than how their already living? Europe is alright minus Italy, Spain, Belgium at times and some of the eastern bloc.

Your life as a black person is infinitely better in the US and Canada then it is in Europe

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

The irony.

 

[Luken]

Your life as a black person is infinitely better in the US and Canada then it is in Europe

i wouldnt say infinitely bruv.

 

[loyola llothta]

 

[Tom Foolery]

@ them squaring up like Mayweather Marquez in the beginning.

 

[loyola llothta]

Eliana Gilet

Hundreds of Haitians and Africans stranded in southern Mexico: the new "aggressive" immigration policy

02:05 05.09.2019
By Eliana

The situation of abandonment and lack of responses in which Haitians and Africans have lived for months in southern Mexico provoked protests that were repressed by the authorities. In dialogue with Sputnik, the sociologist Wilner Metelus highlighted the vulnerability of these migrants since the new agreement with the United States.

President of the Citizen Committee in Defense of the Naturalized and Afro-Mexicans, Metelus related how the commitment made by the Mexican Government with the US to curb the flow of migration on its border with Guatemala worsened the living conditions of people in transit.

The measure seeks to prevent more immigrants from reaching US territory, but the result is another. They keep moving across the continent, only in a more insecure and clandestine way.

In a series of raids on August 20 in Tapachula, the main border city in southern Mexico, National Guard agents carrying long weapons, accompanied by the Navy and the National Migration Institute, arrested all foreigners who found in public places of the city.

The episode sparked a protest at the gates of the local immigration jail, starring Haitians and Africans who demanded freedom for detainees. Repressed, migrants from Haiti and Africa have mobilized to continue in transit through Mexico, which has revealed a discriminatory face of Mexican authorities, according to Metelus.

Haitians and Africans even more discriminated against?
"At the beginning of the year there was dialogue and those who arrived in Tapachula were able to apply for refuge in the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (Comar), but they have been waiting for almost seven months waiting for a response from the authorities," Metelus said.

"There is a total change by the authorities after the agreement of the Mexican Government with the United States," he said.

This agreement was publicly negotiated as a way to avoid tariffs that US President Donald Trump threatened to apply to all Mexican imports , although this did not imply real damage to the Mexican economy. It is that 80% of the trade between both countries is intra-firm, that is, of US companies that produce in Mexico to supply the North American market. In that sense, it would be their own consumers who were affected by these tariffs, which ultimately did not materialize.

However, harassment of the migrant population became an active policy in Mexico, which assigned the National Guard - the most recent militarized body in the country - to "contain" the migratory flow. This strong presence of armed agents has not diminished the crimes and serious violations suffered by those in transit through the country.

"Since they are not receiving support from the authorities, they are demonstrating to demand permission to continue (which colloquially in Mexico is called safe-conduct) and because they are living in a very vulnerable situation , without food support or access to health care," Metelus remarked.

In addition, "they receive insults from officials," denounced the chairman of the specialized committee.

Evidence of negligence was the death of Maxene Andre, a 34-year-old Haitian who died in detention at the Tapachula Migration Station (Chiapas) on August 6, 2019. Despite having requested medical attention on multiple occasions, the young man did not Received on time.

During the protests, offensive videos have been circulated in which Mexican police can be seen insulting migrants, in addition to the serious statement of Yolanda López Bravo, Federal Attorney for the protection of children and adolescents, who referred to them as "cannibals ".

"There is discrimination against Haitians and Africans by the authorities and within the Migration Institute," Metelus insisted. "According to testimonies from some migrants, we know that the authorities have told them that they are black and that they have to return to their countries of origin," he added.

"It is a policy of persecution towards migrants adopted by this Government, despite the fact that the president of the country, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has always criticized the former. This is the first time that Mexico has such an aggressive policy, which is greatly affecting his international image, "concluded the sociologist.

Link:

Cientos de haitianos y africanos varados en el sur de México: la nueva "política agresiva" de inmigración - Sputnik Mundo

 

[loyola llothta]

Migrant dies in Tapachula immigration jail

Mexico, August 7, 2019.

In the early morning of August 6, a man of Haitian nationality died inside the cell in which he was in isolation, inside the XXI Century Migratory Station of Tapachula. The person had been complaining for hours and asking for medical attention.

The situation inside the center is extreme in terms of treatment and xenophobic and racist attitudes, particularly towards people of Haitian origin.

Many people in need of international protection are identified, under prolonged and indefinite detention. The medical attention of many cases of physical and mental health is urgent, which also affect children and adolescents in detention.

The Driving Group against Migration Detention and Torture and the Collective of Observation and Monitoring of Human Rights in the Mexican Southeast, we want to publish serious facts identified as
cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment within the immigration detention center that the National Institute of Migration operates in Tapachula, Chiapas:

According to testimonies of people admitted to this center, the death occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, August 6, of a man of Haitian nationality who identified with the name of MA, who had been in detention for more than 20 days, 15 of them very ill and also subjected to isolation in a cell. Some people heard the shouts and cries of the person throughout the night from 5 until the morning of August 6. However, the guards kept both the lord and the rest of the men in their cells locked without any assistance and no opportunity to accompany him, until late in the morning they stopped listening to him. Around 6:00 a.m., like every morning they open the cells, they went to visit him, but they met a group of federal police and other people with official uniforms taking pictures, who ordered them to retire, until minutes later they They carried the body without giving any explanation.

The testimonies indicate that the deceased person arrived in good health, but that for 15 days they talked with him and told them that he suffered a lot of headache and chest, fever and agitation. The responsible authority at no time offered to outsource it for medical care. On one occasion a doctor arrived and apparently without performing previous analyzes or an interview, he injected a substance into his arm without explaining its contents. The testimonies unanimously refer that the guards "let him agonize until he died all night long, because of the screams we heard for most of the night."

In addition, numerous testimonies have been recorded by Haitians who denounce racist and xenophobic attitudes by agents of the authority inside the detention center.

Some INM agents have called them "dogs," "a$$holes," and other manifestations of contempt. They offer food and water in poor condition, and deliberately limit access to the sink and hygiene.

There are also numerous people with serious physical and mental health situations, including girls and young children, who are denied adequate medical care. There are cases of fever, heart aches, limb paralysis, intestinal bleeding, respiratory and epidemic problems, vomiting and dehydration, among other conditions, to which anxiety, stress, depression and thoughts of suicide are added.

In addition, dozens of asylum seekers are in a situation of indefinite and prolonged detention, without information about their case or granting alternatives to detention.

Some of them have not yet been able to access the shelter application procedure or have had contact with the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR).

It also identifies people who have already started their process to request refugee status with the COMAR, and even those who already have refuge in Mexico, but who have been arrested, however, remain deprived of their liberty at the immigration detention center.
In a very serious way, two Haitian families that have been forcedly separated are identified. In both cases the mother and daughter have been deported and the father continues in the detention center.

From the member organizations of the signatory networks, we understand that the situation of the 21st Century Migration Station is unacceptable and unsustainable, and we urgently demand:

The launch of an investigation into the death of the person referred to by the relevant justice operators and the National Human Rights Commission, in order to practice due diligence, verify the facts and determine responsibilities.

Punish those responsible for omitting the necessary medical care measures to guarantee the health and life of Mr. MA

The immediate release of persons seeking refuge, in need of international protection.

The immediate presence of COMAR staff at the 21st Century Migration Station, for the effective care of people who have not yet accessed the refuge procedure.

The presence and effective intervention of the Federal Attorney's Office for the Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents within the 21st Century Migration Station, in order to guarantee the non-detention,
under any circumstances, of children in the migration stations.

Appropriate health care measures for people with physical and psychological health problems, including access to medical and hospital services outside the Migration Station.

The implementation of remedial measures for the revocation of the deportation of the separated family, which concludes in the immigration regularization of all the members of the same We also demand the protection of the people who witnessed the events narrated avoiding their immediate deportation, and that the INM guarantees the security and integrity of all persons admitted to the Tapachula detention center, and especially that it avoids any reprisals against persons who have testified to the facts reported.

In short, and in order to avoid further serious violations of human rights in the future, the Driving Group against Migration Detention and Torture and the Human Rights Observation and Monitoring Collective in Southeast Mexico demand the dismantling of immigration detention centers in Mexico, and the adoption of public policies that address the issue from an approach that avoids xenophobia, the repression of migrants and refugees, and their detention.



Driving Group against Migration Detention and Torture American Friends Service Committee - AFSC, Casa del Migrante de Saltillo - CDMS, Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center, Collective against Torture and Impunity - CCTI, FM4 Paso Libre, Action Group Community - GAC, Inclusion and Equity Latin American Consultant, Institute for Security and Democracy –INSYDE, Jesuit Migrant Service - SJM Mexico, Jesuit Refugee Service - SJR Mexico, Mesoamerican Voices - Action with Migrant Peoples.

Collective for the Observation and Monitoring of Human Rights in the Mexican Southeast:

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - Latin America and the Caribbean Office, Digna Ochoa Human Rights Center, Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center, Tepeyac Human Rights Center, Rights of Victims of Violence Minerva Bello, Training and Training (FOCA), Initiatives for Human Development, Junax, Kaltsilaltik, Doctors of the World - Spain and France (MdM), Jesuit Network with Migrants - Central America and North America, Jesuit Service Refugees (SJR), A Friendly Hand in the Fight against AIDS, Mesoamerican Voices Action with Migrant Peoples.

Muere migrante en la cárcel migratoria de Tapachula

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

I really wish our people fix their countries instead of running to be a second-class citizen somewhere else. I’m just a dreamer.

 

[get these nets]

I really wish our people fix their countries instead of running to be a second-class citizen somewhere else. I’m just a dreamer.

Sounds good, until you experience a few coup d'etats....or multiple civil wars.