Mexican activists place 5,100 crosses at border fence to mark migrant deaths

SF Examiner/AP ^ | 10/30/2009 | AP

[Saije]

Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.

The protest coincides with preparations for Mexico's Nov. 1 Day of the Dead holiday. The crosses represent the number of migrants estimated to have died in the 15 years since the United States toughened border security.

The Coalition for the Defense of Migrants also erected a traditional floral offering for the dead.

The Mexican government estimates about 350,000 of its citizens migrate to the U.S. annually.

[Saije]

We toughened border security?

[fieldmarshaldj]

5,100 completely preventable deaths.

[org.whodat]

The crosses represent the number of migrants estimated to have died in the 15 years since the United States toughened border security.

BS, at one time if you got caught crossing the border in the bad lands you were coyote food and the illegals knew so they stayed home.

[TheVitaminPress]

So are these public lands . . . and if so where is the ACLU?

[PeaceBeWithYou]

That isn’t even .01% it would likely be the same with no security....oh wait.

[Patrick1]

Can we put up crosses on the American side to mark the number of Americans killed by Mexican illegals through drunk driving or homicide?

[Texas Eagle]

Not a bad idea. This could be a joint effort. They can place them 10 feet apart and we'll attach the chain link fence to them.

Just kiddding!!! It's a joke! You know, a wisecrack. Sheesh. Get a life. Chill out. Grow a funny bone.

[GnuHere]

In honor of Halloween,
BOO! frikkin hoo.

[Texas Eagle]

Can we put up crosses on the American side to mark the number of Americans killed by Mexican illegals through drunk driving or homicide?

Cha-CHING!

[Niteflyr]

Don't Mexicans take ANY responsibility for their own problems??? Of course not...it's always those damn gringos....

[Texas Eagle]

Has anybody thunk to ask why so many Mexicans are risking their lives to get to a rotten stinking country like the U.S of A?

[txroadkill]

LOL, isn’t that going to hurt their cause with the ACLU and the rest of the Lefty nutjobs?

[Will88]

How many crosses would we need to commemorate all those in the US who have died at the hands of illegal alien murderers, drug dealers, drunken drivers, unqualified drivers, etc.? Quite a large number over 15 years.

[Niteflyr]

Has anybody thunk to ask why so many Mexicans are risking their lives to get to a rotten stinking country like the U.S of A?

Yeah just like Cuba...Michael Moore thinks it is a wonderful place...gee so why are all those people packing in a skiff and killing themselves trying to make it to that A-hole country America...you know....the country that even the President's wife thinks is mean?

[umgud]

The USA is such a bad place that people actually risk their lives to get in.

[rfp1234]

Sad. That’s 5,100 who would have accomplished more by marching in protest against their own corrupt banana-republic rulers.

[Texas Eagle]

The Mexican government estimates about 350,000 of its citizens migrate to the U.S. annually.

Does that include the young women that are smuggled across and forced into the sex slavery trade?

Or is there a separate estimate for that?

[Niteflyr]

The USA is such a bad place that people actually risk their lives to get in.

Makes you go hmmmmmm....

[Texas Eagle]

Sad. That’s 5,100 who would have accomplished more by marching in protest against their own corrupt banana-republic rulers.

Sayyyyy...you might have something there.

Margarita Party Express!

[Texas Eagle]

Yeah just like Cuba...

Speaking of which...how old is that Elian Gonzalez kid by now? He must be 18 or so I would think.

Wouldn't it be fun if he defected to the U.S.?

[MamaDearest]

Can we put up crosses on the American side to mark the number of Americans killed by Mexican illegals through drunk driving or homicide?

Indeed not, the illegal alien activists will litigate you because they'll insist you're a racist and your actions are hate speech. The deck is stacked clearly against US citizens. Our courts, politicians and some on our dear leader's staff have an unwritten obligation to appease Mexico itself and their activists. US citizens have been sued by illegals for tormenting them and they (the illegals) have won sizeable settlements from US citizens (16 illegals sued a Tucson rancher for example).

[VeniVidiVici]

They should put up a cross for each death related to gangs, drug lords, corrupt police and corrupt politicians.

[Proud2BeRight]

Can we put up crosses on the American side to mark the number of Americans killed by Mexican illegals through drunk driving or homicide?

EXACTLY!!

[Niteflyr]

Speaking of which...how old is that Elian Gonzalez kid by now? He must be 18 or so I would think. Wouldn't it be fun if he defected to the U.S.?

Probably already tried and got thrown in the gulag... you know how free they are under a communist dictatorship...you know...like what we are working on instituting here??

[uncommonsense]

How about they place crosses on the Mexican side that depict all the murder and drug war deaths? Then tie them together with chains to represent the chains of poverty placed on them by their own corrupt and incompetent government.

With this - we'll have one hell of a nice fence to enforce our border laws and perhaps with access cut off... they will seek to establish liberty in their own nation so they can finally rise to their God given potential and stop debasing themselves by groveling for the scraps from someone else's table!

[Niteflyr]

The drug lords have probably killed that many cops in the same time frame...but who cares...they sure don’t

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

i was gonna’ say the same thing boo frikkin’ hoo

[southernnorthcarolina]

Allow me to make a couple of edits:

Rights activists Enablers in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants invaders who have died trying to cross.

[himno hero]

Why don’t they petition their government into hope and change?

Get some stimulus going.... so they can stay home?????

[ABQHispConservative]

And how many will these idiots place on the border between Guatemala and Mexico?

[Niteflyr]

And how many will these idiots place on the border between Guatemala and Mexico?

Didn't you get the memo? Those don't count.

(Born in ABQ NM...and actually ABQ are my given initials...:o)...)

[Nea Wood]

Can we put up crosses on the American side to mark the number of Americans killed by Mexican illegals through drunk driving or homicide?

Bravo to that!

[Blue Collar Christian]

I’m betting 5,100 is a fabricated, inflated number. Certainly the 350,000 is fabricated and deflated. More white guilt to be enjoyed by all...

It will never fixed, so we must adjust. It is too late to stop. We have no choice. History moves forward as this will become a third world country along with the rest of the American continents.

At least I warn you in time to set yourself up as part of the ruling, rich elite.

[Niteflyr]

At least I warn you in time to set yourself up as part of the ruling, rich elite.

Where do I get an application?...

[ABQHispConservative]

Of course those don’t count. It wouldn’t do for Mexicans and their lib allies to remind the world about their draconian own immigration laws.

Just like I always get a kick from those Azatlan morons. If they want that crap, then they should consider giving the Yucatan Peninsula back to Central America.

[Will88]

350,000 ‘migrants’ per year x 15 years = 5,250,000

5,100/5,250,000 = 00.00097

Not quite 1/1,000th of one percent died during that journey. Hate to be harsh, but any who died on that short journey died due to poor planning or carelessness. Hardly a circumstance that justifies commemorations and claims that anyone’s ‘rights’ have been violated.

[Niteflyr]

Just like I always get a kick from those Azatlan morons. If they want that crap, then they should consider giving the Yucatan Peninsula back to Central America.

That doesn't fit their agenda....

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Good target practice.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The response should be to plant 51,000 crosses on our side.

[Blue Collar Christian]

No application needed. You just go down to Home Depot, hire yourself a bunch of day laborers for half the going rate and laugh all the way to the bank as you best your competition with lower bids. You will be The Man.

[Niteflyr]

No application needed. You just go down to Home Depot, hire yourself a bunch of day laborers for half the going rate and laugh all the way to the bank as you best your competition with lower bids. You will be The Man.

Gee you make it sound so easy to be bourgeois...:o)

[Blue Collar Christian]

...bourgeois...

Isn’t that French?

Don’t make me go Pesci on you ...8^(

[HiTech RedNeck]

We should add a sign to the field of crosses: “WE WARNED YOU”

[hinckley buzzard]

I'll buy a cross for ten bucks Alex.

[Niteflyr]

Don’t make me go Pesci on you ...8^(

OK...ruling elite....:o)

[imahawk]

And we can set a number of crosses at the border that is a hell of alot more of innocent Americans that have been killed by illegal aliens.SFO

[dalereed]

“The Mexican government estimates about 350,000 of its citizens migrate to the U.S. annually”

Put the military on the border and make that 350,000 dead instead of 5,100!

[LibLieSlayer]

QUICK... some patriot rush a large sign down there that reads, “DANGER... THEY BE MONSTERS IN THESE WATERS”!

LLS

[RoadTest]

When people enter a country illegally, they are criminals. What are we expected to do - shake hands and pat them on the back?