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Migrant of Haitian Origin Shot Dead in Tijuana, Another Drowns in Rio Grande

Antonio Heras and Carlos Figueroa

correspondents

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday April 8, 2023, p. 3

A migrant of Haitian origin was shot to death on Thursday afternoon when he was riding a bicycle through the streets of the Libertad neighborhood, in Tijuana, Baja California, police sources reported.

The president of the Citizen Committee in Defense of Naturalized and Afro-Mexicans, Wilner Metelus, maintained that it was a hate crime and warned that there is a total silence of the three orders of governmentdespite having been a brutal act.

death in the river

In Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, the body of a foreigner who drowned in the Rio Grande in his attempt to cross into the United States was recovered by the municipal Civil Protection and Fire Department.

Yesterday morning it was reported to 911 that in the river, at the height of the area known as Las Cascajeras, the corpse of a subject, presumably migrant, who wore dark-colored clothes and was between 25 and 30 years old, floated; Agents of the Investigative Police of the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office ordered the transfer of the remains to a funeral home for autopsy.

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