'Limbless' Honduran Migrants Ask Mexico's Senate to Allow Free Passage to United States Mark Stevenson - The Associated Press
go to original April 10, 2014

Hope: The migrants say they petitioned the Mexican Senate earlier in the week, asking for the the government to stop persecuting Central Americans, protect them from criminal gangs. (Associated Press)

About a dozen Honduran migrants who lost legs and arms after falling from trains during northbound journeys across Mexico asked the country's Senate to stop the government's persecution of Central Americans, protect them from criminal gangs and contribute money to shelters for their care.

The migrants say that drug gang members and other criminals frequently beat, stab or push them from moving trains during their journeys through Mexico to the United States.

The migrants wore prosthetic limbs — in some cases, for both legs — and pinned-up shirt sleeves in place of missing arms. They expressed hope that Mexico would agree to allow them transit visas or free passage without documents to cross the country on their way to the U.S. border.

Jose Luis Hernandez, the leader of the Association of Disabled Returning Migrants, said the group hopes to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto to discuss their demands. Hernandez said there are 452 mutilated migrants from Honduras alone, and more from other Central American countries.

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