Oaxaca Community Erects Signs Warning Migrants They're Prohibited from Staying Mexico News Daily
go to original April 5, 2017

“Migrant friend: we inform you that it is prohibited for you to stay in this village or to ask around its streets for help, so you should go along your way. Avoid being reported,” reads the message over the signature “The general public.” (Óscar Rodríguez/Milenio)

Anti-immigrant bias runs freely on both sides of the Mexico-United States border.

Signs posted at the entrance to a town in Oaxaca warn migrants they are not welcome and suggest they carry on their way.

It was violent disputes among opposing criminal gangs that triggered the erection of the signs in Vicente Camalote in the municipality of Acatlán de Pérez Figueroa.

Mayor Adán Maciel Sosa told the newspaper Milenio that the signs were the result of a community agreement intended to stop gangs from raiding the community and targeting migrants staying there.

The tipping point was the recent murder of a woman during one of those raids, the mayor said.

Not everyone agrees with the measure. “People are scared, but I find it very unjust that people should be denied a glass of water, a tortilla, a coin,” said one resident.

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