In a DW-TV report, a Honduran Immigrant, a Mexican dish – water complains to the mill of those who make anti-immigrant sentiment. In this case, the quote was taken out of context.
In the Mexican border city of Tijuana, around 3,000 migrants from Central America are now arrived. After a March of thousands of kilometres you are arrived almost at the goal, and we hope that the border in the United States cross. However, the voltages on Mexico’s border. Central American migrants face in Mexico with increasing suspicion and even xenophobia. Last Sunday, about 1,000 Mexicans demonstrated against the presence of migrants.
The resentment was further fueled by the statement of a Honduran woman who spoke in a TV report by the Deutsche Welle in a derogatory way about Mexican food: “I know that it is not a matter of course, to get something to eat, but the food here is terrible. Look, just mashed beans. As if they wanted to feed the pigs,” says Miriam C. in the TV-report. The careless remark was, unfortunately, a traditional dish of the Mexican kitchen: Frijoles, spicy refried beans. The quote of the woman in the TV report was pulled apart by Internet users from the context and on the social networks widespread.
From the context
“If you decide to, another country to cross, then you can inform yourself in advance what to eat there”
The reactions there were not. “If you decide to, another country to cross, then you can inform yourself in advance what to eat there,” wrote a well-meaning User on Twitter. Others responded with open hostility, and railed against the “ingratitude” of all migrants in the country – and, in particular, the “Frijoles woman”
The Deutsche Welle had a chance to speak again with the woman. “It hurts me a lot, also because I’m going to be harassed. I have to say that just because you treated my daughter badly. They wanted to give it to her with violence, these beans, even though you just had a stomachache,” says Miriam C. in tears in an interview with DW. “I ask the Mexican people that took such good care of us, a thousand times sorry,” she says.
Cs. Daughter is a deaf-mute. It is the reason why you has on the way in the USA. She hopes that she gets a medical treatment that Honduras can’t afford. But in the meantime, the mother with her powers at the end. “You harassed my daughter. She cries in silence, and told me that she doesn’t want to be here anymore, because the other children have you beaten. The truth is that I don’t want to be here.”
The supply situation has improved now
Despite your apology, you have your accommodation in Mexico leave. Many of your Honduran country’s people take the ill-considered Statement about the beans bad. “She has us, as ungrateful people appear, and this is completely false,” says the Hondurans Marvin Lemos. In the hostel has improved the supply situation for migrants, meanwhile, the excitement of “Frjoles” seems to have helped: “There were a lot of complaints that you only got to eat Once a day. But now there are three Times a day a meal,” says the Immigrant, Marta Martinez.
The supply of migrants is a logistical challenge for Mexico.
The Manager of the hostel is the fact that the whole incident was an isolated case, and that there are sufficient and, above all, varied diet in the property. “The bean is a staple food for Mexicans and very tasty. We could not imagine that this woman doesn’t like beans. You should’ve seen our big pot to see. The was empty in the end,” says Manuel Figueroa, Director of community development in Tijuana.
Quite as rosy, the supply situation was not admitted but in the first days after the arrival of the migrants, but, as even the local authorities. And it was also in the TV report by the Deutsche Welle – the supply situation of migrants in Mexico.