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  • U.S. group gives Mexico smugglers GPS emergency beacons

    05/25/2011 9:32:53 AM PDT · by La Lydia · 51 replies · 1+ views
    Reuters ^ | May 24, 2011
    A humanitarian group said on Tuesday it has given emergency GPS location devices to Mexican human smugglers in a controversial bid to save immigrants' lives as they break into increasingly remote desert stretches of the U.S. border this summer. Rev. Robin Hoover, founder of Tucson-based Humane Borders, said he gave five cell-phone sized location beacons to a church group in Mexico's northern Sonora state earlier this month to distribute to human smugglers, known as "coyotes." The aim is for the coyotes to use the devices to summon rescue if they get into trouble as they guide migrants on the dangerous...
  • Mexico-U.S. Relations Deteriorating

    01/27/2006 4:03:49 AM PST · by LouAvul · 70 replies · 1,433+ views
    yahoo ^ | 1-27-06
    MEXICO CITY - It has been a trying week for Mexico-U.S. relations: a tense border confrontation between U.S. agents and apparent drug traffickers, a Mexican group's offer to print maps of the Arizona desert for illegal migrants and an exchange of terse diplomatic notes. The administration of Mexican President Vicente Fox has its share of quarrels with other countries, but this promised to be one of the trickiest — involving the country's northern neighbor and largest trading partner at a time when the U.S. Congress is debating immigration reform. For Mexico, migration to the United States is a mainstay of...
  • Entrant [illegal alien] map shows roads, water tanks

    01/25/2006 4:37:36 AM PST · by Borax Queen · 63 replies · 1,602+ views
    The Arizona Daily Star ^ | 01.25.2006 | Lourdes Medrano
    The map being distributed by Humane Borders and Mexico's Human Rights Commission shows, using semicircles, how far people entering the United States illegally can expect to walk in one, two and three days. The text at bottom center warns people "Don't go!" into Arizona because of insufficient water and says, "It's not worth it!" Circles show where entrants have died, flags are water tanks and stars are rescue beacons. Emergency phone numbers are at lower right; the graph at the top shows the most dangerous months. ...A Tucson human-rights group has teamed up with Mexico's Human Rights Commission to provide...