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Mexicans Living on Texas Gulf Hurry Home
AP ^ | 9/22/05

Posted on 09/22/2005 12:39:39 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ

Associated Press Writer

Hundreds of Mexicans living on the Texas Gulf Coast were rushing home Thursday to avoid Hurricane Rita, while authorities in northern Mexico readied shelters and prepared for heavy rains.

In Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, Mexican families coming from Houston, Galveston, South Padre Island, Corpus Christi and Pasadena, Texas, waited in long lines to get temporary import permits for their cars.

Thousands of Mexicans live and work in Texas, but still have family - or even second homes - in Mexico. With Rita bearing down on the Gulf coast, many felt it was time to go home, at least for a week or so.

Moises Ramirez was one of hundreds crossing into Mexico on Thursday. A carpenter and home owner from Pasadena, Texas, he left behind his job and house to stay with his parents in Monclova, 440 miles southwest of Pasadena.

Traveling with six relatives, Ramirez said he worried about what he would have to come back to, but he wasn't ready to risk staying in the storm's path.

"What happened in New Orleans could also happen there," he said, referring to Texas.

Nuevo Laredo authorities said families crossing from Texas started coming to the border city late Wednesday, and by Thursday morning more than 1,000 people had crossed into Mexico.

"Hearing Rita was one of the most powerful hurricanes in the history of the Gulf was enough for me to leave," said Roberto Garcia, who left his home in Corpus Christi and was heading to a suburb of Monterrey, where his family lives.

The influx of Mexicans fleeing the Texas Gulf Coast was expected to increase, and authorities were adding customs agents and personnel at the border.

Many families in northern Mexico have relatives in Texas, and South Padre Island is a popular vacation spot for people from Monterrey.

In Nuevo Leon state, which includes Monterrey, Gov. Natividad Gonzalez sent a letter to Texas Gov. Rick Perry offering to send in medical and rescue crews. Gonzalez also said Nuevo Leon was prepared to set up shelters near the border in case they are needed.

"Just like you have helped the victims of Katrina, we in Nuevo Leon are ready to offer help to our friends in Texas," Gonzalez wrote.

Salvador Trevino, public safety director for Tamaulipas state, which borders the Texas Rio Grande Valley, said no evacuations have been ordered because Rita is expected to make landfall in Galveston, Texas.

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KEYWORDS: aliens; bordersecurity; bushamnesty; hurricane; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; invasionusa; openborders; rita
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1 posted on 09/22/2005 12:39:41 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Thousands of Mexicans live and work illegally in Texas
2 posted on 09/22/2005 12:41:39 PM PDT by glockmeister40
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To: glockmeister40

"Thousands of Mexicans live and work illegally in Texas"

Seems like an opportunity has presented itself...


3 posted on 09/22/2005 12:47:40 PM PDT by milford421
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Maybe this is God's way of regulating the US-Mexican border.

Send out word all over Mexico that those who cross the border face a new danger - they shall be greeted by horrendous storms and pelting rain and terrible winds.


4 posted on 09/22/2005 12:55:29 PM PDT by alloysteel ("Master of the painfully obvious.....")
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Adios amigos.


5 posted on 09/22/2005 1:01:25 PM PDT by hophead (" Enjoy Every Sandwich" WZ)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Please don't tell me my tax dollars are going to be used to help these illegals restart their illegal lives in the U.S...............................


6 posted on 09/22/2005 1:02:20 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (2,4,6,8 - a burka makes me look overweight!)
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To: hophead

Quick, barricade the door and lock the gates - oh right, we don't have any gates!


7 posted on 09/22/2005 1:02:21 PM PDT by princess leah (\)
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To: princess leah

or a door and the goodfurnuthin dog is asleep.


8 posted on 09/22/2005 1:06:26 PM PDT by rattrap
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

'temporary import permits' ... you mean they don't plan on staying in Mexico? :shock/dismay:


9 posted on 09/22/2005 1:26:32 PM PDT by InsensitiveConservative
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

via con dios!


10 posted on 09/22/2005 1:27:40 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Perhaps we could better secure our border with Mexico if we posted hurricaine warning signs in Spanish.


11 posted on 09/22/2005 1:55:56 PM PDT by The Great RJ (q)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Maybe they can stay HOME until invited back.


12 posted on 09/22/2005 2:28:09 PM PDT by WayneM (Remember; "Saturday people first. Sunday people next.")
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Maybe they can stay HOME until invited back.


13 posted on 09/22/2005 2:28:13 PM PDT by WayneM (Remember; "Saturday people first. Sunday people next.")
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Okay, I won't tell you -- but you know the answer, don't you?

Leave No Illegal Behind.


14 posted on 09/22/2005 2:29:20 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Any chance we can lock the door?


15 posted on 09/22/2005 2:35:48 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

They were just fair weather criminals I guess!


16 posted on 09/22/2005 2:37:42 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Dead Corpse

Quick close the gate before they come back


17 posted on 09/22/2005 2:38:23 PM PDT by MudSlide
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To: Dead Corpse

Quick close the gate before they come back


18 posted on 09/22/2005 2:39:14 PM PDT by MudSlide
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To: MudSlide

If they weren't born here let them stay there, and if they are legals let them prove it.


19 posted on 09/22/2005 7:44:59 PM PDT by snowman1
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon; JohnHuang2; keri; international american; Kay Soze; jpsb; hershey; TomInNJ; ...
Rita pings and how they run ..

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Hundreds of Mexicans living on the Texas Gulf Coast were rushing home Thursday to avoid Hurricane Rita, while authorities in northern Mexico readied shelters and prepared for heavy rains.

In Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, Mexican families coming from Houston, Galveston, South Padre Island, Corpus Christi and Pasadena, Texas, waited in long lines to get temporary import permits for their cars.

Thousands of Mexicans live and work in Texas, but still have family - or even second homes - in Mexico. With Rita bearing down on the Gulf coast, many felt it was time to go home, at least for a week or so.


20 posted on 09/22/2005 10:36:11 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
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