INM beats migrants on train; They are stranded in Zacatecas

OJOCALIENTE, Zac.

At least two railroads, with Central American migrants as passengers, who travel on the steel back of The beastare stranded in Zacatecas, activists defending migrants denounced.

A convoy from Aguascalientes was detained in the Palmira community in the municipality of Ojocaliente by agents of the National Guard and the National Immigration Institute.

The uniformed officers demanded that the migrants get off the train; By not complying with the instructions, the immigration agents had words with the Central Americans and beatings ensued.

In a video recorded by the migrants, a woman, an agent of the National Migration Institute, is observed hitting several migrants with a steel rod; As a result of this attack, at least four people were injured, one of them with a head injury.

“They started throwing stones at us, they jumped on several boys, they threatened to push them, they held on and didn’t fall; They threw the bags down where our belongings and cell phones are and we had to go down to look for them and in that way they evacuated the train until it ended up empty,” said Venezuelan Álvaro Pérez, one of the injured.

“We have been mistreated by migration very verbally, they hit me, here I have evidence that they hit me in the ear and on the leg, they treat us like garbage, like we are worthless,” accused Peruvian Dominica Dayana, who He is currently in Calera, Zacatecas.

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• The migrants are stopped in the municipality of Calera, Zacatecas, along with another train that has been stopped for two days at the same point.