MEXICO: Police Find 210 Migrants Crammed Into A Truck In Chiapas.

AP/ M. HERALD

Despite mass migrant murders in Tamaulipas...migrants, mainly from Central America, continue to flood into Mexico...on their way to the USA.

On the southern border in Chiapas...police found 210 migrants from Brasil, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua...packed so tightly into the truck that they had to stand.

Also in Chiapas in May...federal police apprehended 513 migrants from two trailer trucks.

A captured Guatemalan migrant said he paid smugglers $3,000 for a trip to the USA for work. "There's no work back home," he said.

MEXICO: 513 Migrants Found Stuffed In 2 Trucks Headed For USA.

AP/ M.HERALD/ M. DE LA CRUZ

    Police in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas stopped 2 tractor trailers for a random x-ray check and found...513 migrants bound for Puebla and ultimately the USA...stuffed inside.
    The trucks had air holes punched in the tops of the containers but migrants said they lacked air and water.
    They said they were charged $7,000 usd to get to the USA.
    The migrants were comprised of  410 Guatemaltecos, 47 Salvadorans, 32 from Ecuador, 12 from India,
6 from Nepal, 3 from China and one from Japan, the Dominican Republic and Honduras.
    That total also included 32 women and four children.
    Four smugglers tried to escape in the trucks but were chased down and arrested.

MEXICO: Police Find 219 Migrants Crammed Inside Truck In Chiapas.

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   A mind-boggling 219 migrants, most from Central America, were discovered crammed into a tractor trailer in Chiapas after authorities heard cries for help during a 4 a.m.security checkpoint.
 The driver sped off  but was chased and arrested.
   Six of the migrants were from Sri Lanka and four are Nepalese. Thirty-three were women and nine are minors.
   All will be deported.

MEXICO: 108 Captives Freed From Traffickers In Tapachula.

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     Marines rescued 103 Central Americans and five Mexicans held at La Herradura banana plantation in Tapachula, a city on the border with Guatemala.
    Authorities said the captives “were found living under conditions of exploitation and overcrowding.”
    Eight suspects – six Mexicans and two Central Americans – will be charged with people trafficking.

MEXICO: Heavy Flooding Hits Tabasco, Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca.

AP/       An estimated 500,000 people are homeless in southern Mexico after escaping floods from weeks of torrential rains. The states of Tabasco, Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca are suffering the heaviest rains. Tens of thousands are sleeping on the roofs of their homes, refusing to abandon their possessions. More rain is predicted. The region has already received TWICE the amount of rainfall that normally falls during the season that doesn't end until November.