Authorities Detain 300 Central American Migrants Near Mexico's Southern Border David Iaconangelo - Latin Times
go to original May 1, 2014

A migrant from El Salvador walks next to the train tracks with the help of a crutch after he injured himself while riding the train through Mexico, on the outskirts of Monterrey April 17, 2014. (Reuters/Daniel Becerril)
 
Animal Politico reports that around 300 undocumented Central American migrants were arrested on Wednesday during a joint operation carried out by Mexico’s immigration agency in tandem with federal and state police in the southern state of Tabasco, near the Guatemalan border.

The migrants were part of at least a thousand others bound for the United States who found themselves stranded last week in Tabasco and Chiapas states. Personnel with the cargo train lines which migrants often use to hitchhike north had kept the group from climbing on because of a suit filed on April 1 by the state of Veracruz against two train companies.

La Jornada writes that most of the detained group were from Honduras.

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