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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | June 2007 
Mexican Police Arrest 70 Illegal Immigrants
 Xinhua
| | Buzzards and children compete for scraps at the Tegucigalpa, Honduras, landfill. Boys scavenge for anything they can eat or sell. Northbound freight trains through Mexico are crowded with Hondurans fleeing poverty and in search of work or a relative in the U.S. (LATimes) |
Mexican police on Friday arrested 70 illegal immigrants from Central American nations in the central state of Tlaxcala.
The arrests took place near train tracks in the city of Apizaco, said Fernando Azael Mendoza Lopez, a delegate from the National Migration Institute.
The immigrants, from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, were healthy but tired due to the wearisome trip from their native countries to Mexico, he added.
Over the past five days, 159 immigrants from Central America have been arrested in Mexico.
According to figures from non-governmental organizations, some 500 immigrants die every year in their attempt to seek illegal entry into the United States via Mexico. |
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