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Thanks for the links to reports one and two. I was thinking that they might be revealing, because there appeared to be numerous, tacit assumptions in report three.

They are revealing. From report one, timeframe early 2005, excerpted for brevity; translation of website from http://www.appliedlanguage.com/free_translation.shtml

Actions of the Government of Mexico in the diplomatic scope

In January, the Secretariat of Outer Relations maintained to consultations on the subject with the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Internal Security.

In February, the Secretariat of Outer Relations sent a Diplomatic Note to the government of the United States, in which it express preoccupation by the activities of the Minuteman project and the managements of the Department of State are asked for in order that the competent dependencies take forecasts to avoid that federal and state laws in damage of our conationals are violated. The subject was boarded also, in Washington D.C at level of Chancellors.

In March, the Ambassador of Mexico in the United States entrevistó with the Head of the Border Patrol of the Department of Internal Security, in order to ask for its intervention. Also, in occasion of the work visit that the Secretary of State of the United States made to Mexico, the position of Mexico on the part of the Secretary of Outer Relations was expressed him again.

In that same month, in the City of Mexico, during the meeting of work which they maintained civil employees of the Secretariats of Interior and Outer Relaciones of Mexico with diverse civil employees of the Department of Internal Security, including the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection and the Head of the Border Patrol, the Mexican delegation reiterated the position of our government.

During the encounter which they maintained the Presidents of Mexico and the United States, in Waco, Texas, the President of the Republic expressed to his homologous American the preoccupation of his government by the subject and asked for the intervention of the competent authorities.

Answer of the Government of the United States

Civil employees of the Department of Internal Security have offered the securities of which that corporation does not support, in form some, the activities of monitoring made by individuals and he will not reduce violations to the law.

The diplomatic note presented/displayed the 10 of February, was answered by the Department of State assuring that the government of the United States will guard by the respect of the rights of any foreigner within his territory.

On the other hand, President George W. Bush declared in Waco, Texas, during the joint press conference with the agent chief executives of Mexico and Canada: “I am against watchmen in the United States of America. I am in favor of enforcing the law in a rational way. For that reason it is that an Border Patrol exists, and this one must enforce the law in the border”.

The 31 of March, the spokesman of the Border Patrol of the United States, Samuel Zamora, indicated that the Minuteman represents a distraction for the Border Patrol that it prevents him to exert his work. She added that the one that people take the law “in her own hands is what we are not going to tolerate”. She also commented that in case that haltings on the part of individuals appear, these last ones will have to face positions in his against.

Interinstitutional coordination

During the months of March and diverse April meetings between civil employees of Mexican institutions with presence in that zone of the border have taken place, with the intention of coordinating tendientes actions to prevent any incident from the Mexican side with the border, particularly arisen on the part of tie people to the organized crime or of gangs. The meetings also have had the objective to evaluate the measures to adopt before possible blockades of the border ports on the part of competing demonstrators to the activities of the volunteers of the Minuteman and to preserve the order and the tranquillity in the region.

The 1 of April was carried out a meeting with the participation of representatives of the different agencies from the order, as much of Mexico as of the United States, in which connections of communication between these agencies settled down, with the intention to count on opportune information on any incident that put in risk the public order and to avoid any trasgresión or violation to the law.

Coordination SRE-SEGOB

During the months of March and April several meetings of coordination between civil employees of both dependencies have been carried out, in order to detect any violation that was gotten to commit as a result of the activities of border monitoring of the members of the Minuteman against Mexican nationals.

With that objective one remembered reinforce the personnel of the National Institute of Migration and the Groups Water Beta Prieta and Naco, Sonant, to make the procedures more expeditious of repatriation. Also, instructions were turned to them to interview all the nationals which they were repatriated and to report to the National Institute of Migration and the Consulate in Douglas any complaint or denunciation of aggression, I mistreat or humiliation of which had been object at the moment and during its halting, specially in case that this halting had become by individuals.

Consular actions

By instructions of the Secretariat of Outer Relations, the consulates of Mexico in Arizona are kind to any possible violation of the rights of Mexican nationals.

The holders of the Consulates of Mexico in Arizona (Phoenix, Walnuts, Tucson, Douglas and Yuma) have made similar managements with authorities of Arizona (the Governor and State Solicitor), with federal authorities with jurisdiction in the state (Fiscal Federal and the ones in charge of the diverse sectors of the Border Patrol) and with municipal authorities.

The Secretariat of Outer Relations has established an agreement of collaboration with the Center of Human rights and Constitutional Right of the United States, in order to identify the legal actions that can be undertaken, with base to the own American legal frame, against the individuals that commit abuses that affect the Mexican migrantes. This study has been given to the legal consultants of the consulates.

Direct channels of communication between consular personnel of Mexico in Arizona have settled down and the Border Patrol, in order to guarantee the exchange of information, the consular access to the lengthy migrantes and the respect to their rights.

The Chief of a main directorate of Protection and Consular Subjects went commissioner to travel to the city of Douglas, Arizona, and to supervise of direct form the preventive workings and protection that our consulates make in that state. Also, the Consulate of Mexico in Douglas has been reinforced with additional personnel.

One has asked for the chiefs of the stations of the Border Patrol in Douglas and Naco, Arizona, that the consulate is informed into all and each one of the possible apprehensions of Mexican migrantes made by members of the Minuteman group and was requested that it is allowed consular personnel to interview all the prisoners before they are repatriated.

The General Consulate in Phoenix has reinforced its communication with the competent authorities of the State of Arizona.

Report Consular

In agreement with the information provided by the Consulate of Mexico in Douglas, Arizona, approximately one hundred volunteers of Minuteman in the meeting registered themselves that took place first of April in Tombstone. A great number also appeared, around 120, of printed and electronic mass media representatives.

The personnel of the Consulate in Douglas has maintained in constant communication with the liaisons and supervisors of the stations of the Border Patrol of Naco and Douglas, as well as with bailiffs of the office of the Sheriff de Cochise and the police of Naco and Douglas, that confirmed that until now it has not had reports some of apprehensions of undocumented people carried out by the members of Minuteman.

The watchmen who were bet throughout the border strip, to the east of the port of entrance of Naco, moved three miles to the east of Naco in the direction of Douglas. According to the consular reports, they appeared around 40 individuals that, making use of binoculars, they tried to detect to undocumented migrantes.

It is evident that, at any moment, the Border Patrol and other corporations have maintained a close control of the activities of the volunteers of Minuteman, which surely has contributed to the absence of incidents.

In the period between 5 and 11 of April incidents in the place were not reported where his the volunteers of Minuteman locate. Near them they remain some units of the Border Patrol and the Department of the Sheriff of the County of Cochise.

From the 6 of April, the number of the members of the Minuteman has diminished significantly. It is reported that in the contiguous area to the dividing line 15 and 23 volunteers of Minuteman and several “legal observers” of trained by American Civil Liberty Union have entered themselves between (ACLU), who monitorean to the watchmen to document any possible violation to the human rights of the undocumented people, and who carry a white t-shirt with a legend in red which he says “legal observers”.

The Border Patrol has showed publicly its annoyance because the volunteers of Minuteman activate control sensors and cause false alarms that mobilize without sense to the elements of the corporation.

From the 6 of April, also the presence of mass media representatives diminished very significantly.