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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So, can we countersue Mexico for the cost of housing, educating and caring for millions of law-breakers?
Aawww..hun, back to indoctrination camp with you. That's hate speech. (ggrrrrrrr...)
Exactly.
They respected our laws.
A big step up from the recent influx of Mexicans, Russians, middle easterners and from wherever else they are arriving. Our assimiliation process is meant to preserve this country's laws and faith. What is proposed would destroy both. It gives respect to those that violate the law, profess allegiance to another nation, and have no interest in exploring the reason this country is prosperous and free whilst theirs is not.
It ain't over until the fat lady sings.
In my opinion that lawsuit needs to be filed ASAP. We should not wait to countersue.
There is only one administration in power now.
If you've ever been in a Mexican border town you'd know that Mexican troops with M16's are already there and have been for some time. Some of our border Patrol have been known to run into them on our side of the border. And take fire from them.
"It is a sovereign decision," he said. "We can't interfere."
Things sure changed overnight.
"Mexico is our friend"
Vicinte must REALLY have something
BIG on George W. Do you suppose
he has his national guard records?
It's ok...I can get away with it, I am Hispanic! </sarc
And just who or where is this almighty audience that you are so intent on impressing?
BTTT
Oh heck, I will simply respond with your brilliance.
"( And don't waste your snide remarks on me: history will be your judge.)".
Have a nice day.......
Mexico Threatens Suits Over Guard Patrols
"Mexico is our friend"
Remember all of those who've been banned for proclaiming too vociferously that Mexico is an enemy of the United States. Yes, most used crude language, posted insensitive responses to baiters and felt driven to speak what they saw as the truth but that didn't give them any right to offend our recent members striving to fit in after leaving the Democrat Party.
Hahahahahahahahaha! Neos are closet liberals. They have no sense of patriotism and live only to shape all government policy toward short-term profiteering at the expense of our sovereignty. I almost pity them because they're so torn between socialism and piracy.
¡México no es nuestro amigo!
The problem isn't really whether they're right or wrong - it's that they will file as many frivolous lawsuits for any perceived "wrong" and clog the US court system just as they've inundated schools, prisons, and hospitals.
American lawmakers best pay extreme attention to those threats and respond prudently and responsibly by removing deportation obstructions and by requiring any legal complaint by a non-citizen, a citizen of Mexico, having to be filed through the US Mexican Consular's office in Mexico. Our court system simply cannot handle an additional docket load of 1/3 of all illegal aliens filing lawsuits, right or wrong.
How do you figure that?
It's time to end relations with mexico. At the point that they say they'll sue us in our own courts if we detain illegals all pretence of them not invading us intentionally are gone.
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