Senor Fox has Bush wrapped around his finger...
Bush cares about the security of the U.S.? BS
Posted on 05/16/2006 2:15:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -
Mexico said Tuesday that it would file lawsuits in U.S. courts if National Guard troops on the border become directly involved in detaining migrants.
Mexican border officials also said they worried that sending troops to heavily trafficked regions would push illegal migrants into more perilous areas of the U.S.-Mexican border to avoid detection.
President Bush announced Monday that he would send 6,000 National Guard troops to the 2,000-mile border, but they would provide intelligence and surveillance support to Border Patrol agents, not catch and detain illegal immigrants.
"If there is a real wave of rights abuses, if we see the National Guard starting to directly participate in detaining people ... we would immediately start filing lawsuits through our consulates," Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez told a Mexico City radio station. He did not offer further details.
Mexican officials worry the crackdown will lead to more deaths. Since Washington toughened security in Texas and California in 1994, migrants have flooded Arizona's hard-to-patrol desert and deaths have spiked. Migrant groups estimate 500 people died trying to cross the border in 2005. The Border Patrol reported 473 deaths in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
In Ciudad Juarez, Julieta Nunez Gonzalez, local representative of the Mexican government's National Immigration Institute, said Tuesday she will ask the government to send its migrant protection force, known as Grupo Beta, to more remote sections of the border.
Sending the National Guard "will not stop the flow of migrants, to the contrary, it will probably go up," as people try to get into the U.S. in the hope that they could benefit from a possible amnesty program, Nunez said.
Juan Canche, 36, traveled more than 1,200 miles to the border from the southern town of Izamal and said nothing would stop him from trying to cross.
"Even with a lot of guards and soldiers in place, we have to jump that puddle," said Canche, referring to the drought-stricken Rio Grande dividing Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas. "My family is hungry and there is no work in my land. I have to risk it."
Some Mexican newspapers criticized President Vicente Fox for not taking a stronger stand against the measure, even though Fox called Bush to express his concerns.
A political cartoon in the Mexico City newspaper Reforma depicted Bush as a gorilla carrying a club with a flattened Fox stuck to it.
Fox's spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, said Tuesday that Mexico accepted Bush's statement that the sending in the National Guard didn't mean militarizing the area. He also said Mexico remained "optimistic" that the U.S. Senate would approve an immigration reform "in the interests of both countries."
Aguilar noted that Bush expressed support for the legalization of some immigrants and implementation of a guest worker program.
"This is definitely not a militarization," said Aguilar, who also dismissed as "absolutely false" rumors that Mexico would send its own troops to the border in response.
Bush has said sending the National Guard is intended as a stopgap measure while the Border Patrol builds up resources to more effectively secure the border.
In Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, Honduran Antonio Auriel said he would make it into the U.S.
"Soldiers on the border? That won't stop me," he said. "I'll swim the river and jump the wall. I'm going to arrive in the United States."
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Associated Press Writer Mark Stevenson in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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I'm sure he's talking about the "International Courts!" Not long ago, Vicente Fox made the same threat to take us to the "International Courts." I KNOW we are not SUPPOSED to be under their jurisdiction, but I'd be willing to bet you that papa Bush, Clinton or GW Bush (Probably all three of them!) signed away our sovereignty in one of those unconstitutional trade agreements. I THINK there is a reason that they keep saying they're going to take us to court there. My guess is that they've signed over jurisdiction of America/Americans to them.
Comedian Carlos Mencia said it best on KFI radio last night the guard won't scare them, if you want to scare the illegals put 6000 hungry wolves on the border.
"because the wolves bite"
The hue and cry of the marxists:
International Human Rights!!! Rah, rah, rah!!!
I remember that... when he actually showed promise of channeling TR!!
That hope went POOF!
Has anyone considered landmines? Economical and effective.
Activist federal judges. They rewrite the law to suit their personal political preferences.
I hope not.
Senor Fox has Bush wrapped around his finger...
Bush cares about the security of the U.S.? BS
Mexico has off shore oil rigs, I say we sieze some of them to offset the costs of illegal immigration.
We need to be sure and ping all the freepers who think the border issues are not important. I wouldn't want them to miss this.
People like Paris Hilton or Angelina Jolie might not like it if we mined the border. I don't think it will fly. Our senators would buckle if Hilton or Jolie told them it was mean.
I propose we immediately build a wall to insure that we don't mistreat any illegals who may wish to come to our country. Building a wall has become a Civil Rights Issue, we must protect the Civil Rights of illegals as so many have said.
Let me guess...you're addicted to drama, right?
Because you sure aren't attracted to truth.
Everyone sing it with me!
"From the halls of Montezuma..."
Or, here in Texas, at night -- shot.
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