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Honduran migrants ask Mexico to allow free passage

By Mark Stevenson
Published April 10, 2014 3:09am ET
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Honduran migrants ask Mexico to allow free passage
Fredy Vegas, 33, a migrant from Honduras who uses a prosthetic leg after loosing his limb while riding the train through Mexico toward the U.S. border, poses for a portrait at a migrant shelter in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Vegas is in Mexico City, along with other Honduran migrants who lost limbs after falling from trains during northbound journeys across Mexico, to ask the country's Senate to stop the government's persecution of Central Americans and protect them from criminal gangs. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) | Marco Ugarte

MEXICO CITY (AP) — About a dozen Honduran migrants who lost legs and arms after falling from trains during northbound journeys across Mexico asked the country’s Senate on Tuesday to stop the government’s persecution of Central Americans, protect them from criminal gangs and contribute money to shelters for their care.

The migrants say that drug gang members and other criminals frequently beat, stab or push them from moving trains during their journeys through Mexico to the United States.

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