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Mexico City, Mexico, Dec 17, 2012 \/ 03:02 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- \u00a0A retired Mexican cardinal warned that drug traffickers are leveling death threats against immigrants from Central America to recruit them to carry drugs into the United States.
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\n\t\u201cThere is a new phenomenon in which drug cartels are using (immigrants) to transport drugs to the United States,\u201d said Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, retired Archbishop of Guadalajara. \u201cAnd when they refuse to carry the drugs, they kill them.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cRecently in northern Mexico, more than 60 immigrants were killed,\u201d Cardinal Sandoval observed. \u201cThis is a very serious problem and requires greater attention from us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSpeaking Dec. 12 at the international \u201cEcclesia in America\u201d congress at the Vatican, the cardinal also denounced the cruel treatment of immigrants from Central America by Mexican immigration officials.<\/p>\n

\tThese officials sometimes rape defenseless women and rob vulnerable immigrants of their money and belongings, he said.<\/p>\n

\tAmid these serious threats to human dignity, he praised the work of the many dioceses and immigrant ministries that have set up shelters along the main routes through the country to provide immigrants with \u201chot soup, a shower and a bed to sleep in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCardinal Sandoval also called for immigration reform in the United States. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cTime and time again promises are made \u2013 especially when candidates want votes \u2013 to fix the problem,\u201d he said.
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\n\tThe Mexican prelate highlighted the plight of immigrants living in the U.S. without documentation.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHaving no legal status exposes them to exploitation and arbitrary wages for the hardest, most humiliating jobs, and to being denounced and run off by their bosses,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\tHe stressed that it is the task of the Church in the United States \u201cto call for humane legislation for immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mexico City, Mexico, Dec 17, 2012 \/ 03:02 pm (CNA\/EWTN News).-  A retired Mexican cardinal warned that drug traffickers are leveling death threats against immigrants from Central America to recruit them to carry drugs into the United States.
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