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Caribbean-Latin America
Bangladeshis Jailed in Mexico over Attempts to Enter US Illegally
2021-12-01
[BenarNews] At least 230 Bangladeshis trying to enter the United States illegally from across the southern border are languishing in Mexican jails after being arrested between January and August, according to a letter from the Bangladesh embassy obtained by BenarNews.

Those seeking get to get to the U.S. end up paying at least 1.5 million taka (U.S. $17,500) at different stages.
Ninety percent of those arrested come from one district in Bangladesh, said the letter from the diplomatic mission in Mexico City asking for advice from the Bangladeshi government. In Dhaka, home ministry officials who received it said they had been working to curb international human smuggling networks.

"You will find some desperate people (Bangladeshis) who resort to illegal means to go abroad at any cost. They always try to go to European countries and America. But, I think, their numbers have come down," Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told BenarNews on Tuesday.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Mexico, Cannabis, Bongs me thinks there is another storyline in here, somewhere.

Posted by: Harry Ebbalet5539   2021-12-01 11:31  

#3  "they would say they preferred death to returning to Bangladesh"

Sure, they'd say that. Let's offer them just that choice, and see how they actually choose.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-12-01 07:49  

#2  Bangladeshi equals East Bengal. So, these folks are really Bengalis, also know as Bongs in India. No one likes Bongs, there are millions upon millions of them in India illegally.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656   2021-12-01 04:40  

#1  So, what was their crime (?) they did not speak Spanish well enough to blend in, and their refusal to eat pork, insulted the coyotes they hired to get them to the USA... And so, the story goes Mexican Jail for you Bangladeshis.

Here, have a snack.


Posted by: Phomomble Grundy7430   2021-12-01 01:06  

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