State of Veracruz Files Complaints Against Mexico Railways Over Migrants Catholic News Service
go to original April 3, 2014

For close to two decades, thousands of Central American migrants have lost their dreams, limbs and lives trying to illegally cross Mexican territory. Mexico represents a great challenge for those whose only goal is to reach the northern border hoping to incorporate themselves into the United States. (Pedro Ultreras)

MEXICO CITY - The state of Veracruz has filed criminal complaints against two railway operators for failing to keep Central American migrants from stealing rides atop northbound trains.

The operators of Catholic-run migrant shelters, however, questioned the  government's motives, saying the Gulf Coast state has been among the most dangerous to travel through for those lacking the proper papers.

"Nobody wants migrants passing through Mexico, not the government, the companies or society," said Franciscan Brother Tomas Gonzalez Castillo, operator of a migrant shelter near the Guatemalan border in neighboring Tabasco state. "They're all searching for arguments and a strategy to stop this migration phenomenon."

... Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte told reporters March 31 that prosecutors would file criminal complaints with the federal attorney general's office against railway operators Kansas City Southern de Mexico and Ferrosur, alleging that the companies' employees were complicit with criminals.

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