Mexico conducts largest raid on migrant caravan members; 371 people detained. - NBCLatino
"We don't want for them to just have free passage, not just out of legal concerns but for questions of safety," said Mexico's president.Jose Cabezas / ReutersTONALA, Mexico — Central American migrants traveling through southern Mexico toward the U.S. on Tuesday fearfully recalled their frantic escape from police the previous day, scuttling under barbed wire fences into pastures and then spending the night in the woods after hundreds were detained in a raid.
The once large caravan of about 3,000 people was essentially broken up by the raid, as migrants fled into the hills, took refuge at shelters and churches or hopped passing freight trains. A brave few groups straggled along the highways, but with dozens of police and immigration checkpoints, they were bound to be caught.Jose Cabezas / Reuters
"They were hunting us," Núñez said. As he sees it, the only thing to do is go on alone, see how far he can make it."Now we are afraid of everyone who looks at us or approaches." He said it was not something he wanted to repeat. But he also maintained it was a normal migration enforcement action. In recent months Mexico has deported thousands of migrants. It has also issued more than 15,000 humanitarian visas.
Maria Mesa, a homemaker from La Esperanza, Honduras, said she saw officials tugging children as their mothers battled to pull them through the barbed wire fences. She saw other children weeping, alone, on the edge of the woods. Mesa has kids of her own, but left them home because she knew it would be a hard journey.
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