Protecting Mexico's Migrant Shelters Doesn't Curb Violence, Says Director Jesus Villaseca - La Jornada
go to original October 13, 2013

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Setting up protective measures for the shelters that protect immigrants has failed to curb violence against this group because, while police officers guard the premises, criminal groups continue to attack undocumented migrants on the routes they take every day, said Fray Tomás González, director of shelter “The 72” [named after 72 Central American migrants massacred in 2011].

“For some reason, when they have us take protective measures, they (the criminals) make more trouble. The shelter has turned into a bunker; it has cameras, lighting on the perimeter, police officers all around, but that doesn’t stop them from doing their misdeeds on the outside,” said the clergyman in an interview with La Jornada.

Paradoxically, resources which are used to care for migrants in special shelters have been used by criminals to attack others at transit points to the U.S. border, far from the public eye and the authorities.

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Translated by Thomas Mosley

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