Forty-Four Women and Gays from the Migrants' Way of the Cross Caravan Enter US Leopoldo Ramos - La Jornada
go to original May 9, 2014

The symbolic event attempts to draw a comparison between the suffering that Jesus endured en route to his death and the ordeal that migrants experience, often on the freight train known as “The Beast.” (VICE News)

More than 40 women and homosexual members of the caravan Migrants’ Way of the Cross managed to enter the United States with diplomatic authorization and humanitarian support from non-governmental organizations. Last week they travelled through Mexico as far as Reynosa, Tamaulipas.

Nevertheless, 150 other Central Americans had to escape from the border city after being threatened by organized crime groups that fight over the state of Tamaulipas. They were warned that the groups would come to recruit them as hit men and that they would kill those that refused, said the priest Pedro Pantoja Arreola, advisor for the Migrant House of Saltillo - Border Justice [in Coahuila, just west of Tamaulipas], who accompanied the migrants as far as the border.

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Translated by Janine Rhyans

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