Mexicans Protest Expulsion Program

washingtonpost.com ^ | Monday, September 22, 2003 | Kevin Sullivan

[One_American]

U.S. Says Effort Has Halted Desert Deaths

By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, September 22, 2003; Page A20

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 21 -- Mexican officials are strongly protesting a new U.S. program that flies illegal immigrants caught in the Arizona desert hundreds of miles to Texas, where they are returned to Mexico.

U.S. officials say the program, begun Sept. 8, is a humanitarian measure aimed at preventing returned migrants from simply attempting to cross again into Arizona, where many have died of exposure. Instead, U.S. officials are flying them as far east as Laredo, Tex., into more populated and less dangerous sections of the border.

The U.S. Embassy here said the pilot program, which concludes at the end of this month, has worked. Nearly 2,400 illegal immigrants have been taken from Arizona to Texas, and since the program began, no deaths have been reported in a desert that has averaged more than one death a day in recent years.

[One_American]

Officials in Mexican cities along the Texas border have also complained that dumping thousands of immigrants in their communities will be expensive and disruptive. They say the plan offers no long-term solution to illegal immigration and will strain their already limited budgets for sending immigrants back to their home towns.

But it's OK to dump them by the millions in US cities all over America. How ironic is this situation and blatantly hypocritical of them to say this.

[Arkady]

Expulsion-program. Does this mean no more refried beans?
Seriously, if libs gave a damn, they'd help us make Mexico a real, economically-vibrant nation, instead of aiding them in blaming everything on U.S.
Mexico has lots of natural resources, not least its hard-working people, who if freed from the nanny-state of socialism, wouldn't need to take these hidieous risks.

[Fixit]

Let them protest...

So long as they do it from south of the border.

[Will_Zurmacht]

why not fly them back to mexico...to an isolated airstrip in Chiapas. Probably expensive, some would say cruel...
But maybe criminals would get the point that breaking American law can be a real pain in the @ss

[At _War_With_Liberals]

The more weakness we exhibit, the more they will exploit us.

[Centurion2000]

Why are we flying them ?? Bus them around in some of those prison buses with no AC.

[Fee]

How come these attorneys for the immigration advocacy groups do not set up offices in Mexico and help the Mexicans navigate thru the immigration paperwork to come to the US legally? Why hasn't any GOP politician challenge them on this issue?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Imal]

Officials in Mexican cities along the Texas border have also complained that dumping thousands of immigrants in their communities will be expensive and disruptive. They say the plan offers no long-term solution to illegal immigration and will strain their already limited budgets for sending immigrants back to their home towns.

This really says it all, doesn't it?

I guess these Mexican officials are "racists", like everyone else who points out the obvious.

[BeerSwillr]

Mexicans in this country illegally are lucky that the US government sends them back to Mexico humanely. They're lucky they aren't shot trying to cross the border. They should STFU and stay in their miserable cesspool of a third world country and try and drag it out of feudalism into the 21st century. Miserable dogs.

[PokeyJoe]

Mexican idiots.

A person could pull out their hair with hypocracy so blatant.

Maybe the United States should send a BILL to the Mexican Government for the education expenses related to the children of illegal immigrants, and any social service afforded by the use of the Mexican consular "matricula" card, and highway fees associated with any Mexican citizen holding an American driver's license.

[viaveritasvita]

Damned straight!!

[BeerSwillr]

I like those ideas. Very creative. heh-heh

[Arkady]

Hispanic-immigrants are screwed, because at this time both parties and the president of mexico are more interested in playing political fotball with them, rather than actually fixing mexico's economy.
if i were them i'd at least cast a vote for repub's and buy into America, rather than buying the empty victim-pandering promises of the libs.

[Tacis]

Makes sense! The Mexican offical in the area where the wetback crosses is the one that gets the cut from the coyote and/or wetback, no matter how many tries it takes. If the wetback crosses successfully at another point, the goberment official at the first point has to send the official at the second point the wetback's crossing fee (less "handling" fees specified by Mexican law).

When is our government going to realize the great danger we face from Mexican wetbacks and foreign terrorist who cross the easy border and do something about it. SEAL THE BORDER; SEND THEM HOME. DO WHAT THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES YOU TO DO AND WHAT YOU SWORE TO DO!!!

[PokeyJoe]

yeah, I know - but somebody has to say it at least once when you talk about illegal immigrants.

[ssdb]

Put a thousand of them in a C5A and fly them to Mexico City.
24 flights a day, 1 an hour and see how the mexican govt deals with them.

[Mears]

2500 gone,eight million to go!

[wku man]

Hell, road march 'em at gunpoint.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[RWR8189]

Cant they just be shot for trespassing?