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.
careful fantom, the bushbots here are will have you in their sights!
Well Mexico needs another lesson!
It's Compean.
Get it right!
thanx!
"Gangs of illegal alien Mexicans have declared war on the USA and are trying to take back the American southwest".
And they even have established bus routes.
Glad I live far from a border or...
What was done is wrong, but understandable.Shooting into a van full of women and children is understandable?
I have two words for the freakin' Mexicans. Well you can guess what they are.
Stay home?
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
"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.
So, your theory is we need another California in the US?
No. Bush and Congress need to grow some balls and authorize the military to go kick some Mexican ass!
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