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Mexico demands U.S. inquiry into migrant shootings (No No, Not Ramos & Compian)
Reuters ^

Posted on 02/09/2007 5:51:18 PM PST by VU4G10

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico wants a full investigation by U.S. authorities on Friday into a shooting on the U.S. border that left three illegal migrants dead and two injured.

Mexico's Foreign Ministry said it had told the Mexican consulate in Tucson, Arizona, to ask local U.S. authorities to probe the attack by unknown gunmen, which took place on a back road often used by migrant traffickers.

The ministry requested "an exhaustive investigation" into the incident, it said in a statement.

Armed men stopped a bus full of people on the remote desert track near Tucson and began shooting at it, the ministry said. Police say the gunmen may have been bandits.

The nationality of the three dead men is still unknown, although the consulate in Tucson has identified the two injured as a Guatemalan woman and a Mexican man.

U.S. police officers found two of the dead bodies in a pickup truck in the desert some 20 miles from Tucson on Thursday, and the body of a third man on a roadside nearby.

U.S.-Mexico relations over their 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border have been tense since gangs of U.S. vigilantes who call themselves Minutemen began staking out the border area in 2005 to hunt for illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants.

More than 1 million undocumented immigrants trek over the U.S. border from Mexico each year to search for work in a journey fraught with danger.

Last year more than 400 people died making the trip. Most of the fatalities were due to dehydration, drowning or vehicle rollovers, although attacks, rapes and robberies are common in the borderlands.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordersecurity; distortions; heateddiscussion; immigrant; immigrantlist; immigration; mediabias; medialies; misrepresentations; reuterslies; rueterslies
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To: fantom

careful fantom, the bushbots here are will have you in their sights!


21 posted on 02/09/2007 6:16:37 PM PST by bobby.223
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To: donmeaker

Well Mexico needs another lesson!


22 posted on 02/09/2007 6:23:34 PM PST by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: VU4G10

It's Compean.

Get it right!


23 posted on 02/09/2007 6:24:22 PM PST by Dr. Marten (Bush Immigration Policy: No Illegal Alien Left Behind! (http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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To: Dr. Marten

thanx!


24 posted on 02/09/2007 6:27:17 PM PST by VU4G10 (Have You Forgotten?)
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To: VU4G10

"Gangs of illegal alien Mexicans have declared war on the USA and are trying to take back the American southwest".


25 posted on 02/09/2007 6:31:41 PM PST by Buffettfan (VIVA LA MIGRA! - LONG LIVE THE MINUTEMEN!)
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To: VU4G10

And they even have established bus routes.
Glad I live far from a border or...


26 posted on 02/09/2007 6:46:19 PM PST by mcshot ("If it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features." paraphrased anon.)
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To: Redbob
What was done is wrong, but understandable.
Shooting into a van full of women and children is understandable?
27 posted on 02/09/2007 7:15:19 PM PST by rpgdfmx
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To: VU4G10

I have two words for the freakin' Mexicans. Well you can guess what they are.


28 posted on 02/09/2007 7:18:57 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA
I have two words for the freakin' Mexicans. Well you can guess what they are.

Stay home?

29 posted on 02/09/2007 8:32:54 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: VU4G10

It wasn't anywhere near a border crossing to boot. It was at least 25 miles north of the border, NW of Tuscon.

Love the smear they included against the Minutemen in the editorial passing as news. The Minutemen don't operate anywhere near that area. They watch the border. What the USBP used to do, until they were told to back off.


30 posted on 02/09/2007 8:43:13 PM PST by ex 98C MI Dude (All of my hate cannot be found)
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To: VU4G10

No sweat.

I wasn't trying to be a jerk, but after all these men have been through, the least we can do is spell their names right.


31 posted on 02/09/2007 10:16:54 PM PST by Dr. Marten (Bush Immigration Policy: No Illegal Alien Left Behind! (http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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To: VU4G10
...migrant traffickers.
And which brainiac at Reuters opened up the PC dictionary to come up with this new definition of human smugglers? Wasn't coyotes working?
32 posted on 02/09/2007 11:25:05 PM PST by philman_36
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To: VU4G10

This is what I gleened from the article that was linked to this post...

"U.S.-Mexico relations over their 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border have been tense since U.S. activists who call themselves Minutemen began staking out the border area in 2005 to track down illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants."

Not that I am trying to stir the pot, and I am just as outraged that if the linked story was changed since you posted this yesterday...

This looks like the part of the article that has everyones bowels in an uproar...If it was altered, I'd like to get some folks take on this...

Just curious...


33 posted on 02/10/2007 4:31:58 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: VU4G10

Something else that is just now getting above the radar now in the media...

Apparently the drug cartels are using hilltop observation posts, just like the minutemen and the BP/National Guard are doing to redirect and cover for the trains of drug traffickers coming across the border now...

They are apparently well armed, and the communications are very sofisticated...

I heard this is mostly in Arizona...

Can anyone else confirm this...My source was a local Houston talk-show host talking to Representative Culberson from our state...


34 posted on 02/10/2007 4:39:37 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: VU4G10

Could this be Cartel members posing as MM to force US action against the MM? With our President's views on the MM out in the open (and on CNN), sounds like this could be the case.


35 posted on 02/10/2007 5:30:02 AM PST by wolfcreek (Please Lord, May I be, one who sees what's in front of me.)
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To: philman_36

"And which brainiac at Reuters opened up the PC dictionary to come up with this new definition of human smugglers?"

It could be worse. I can envision a day when Reuters will begin to refer to them as immigration facilitators.


36 posted on 02/10/2007 8:35:54 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: proudofthesouth

So, your theory is we need another California in the US?


37 posted on 02/10/2007 10:18:00 AM PST by donmeaker (The speed of light is 186,234 miles per second. Not just a good idea, its the LAW!)
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To: donmeaker

No. Bush and Congress need to grow some balls and authorize the military to go kick some Mexican ass!


38 posted on 02/10/2007 10:38:01 AM PST by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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