Posted on 11/06/2007 2:47:09 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Mexico City, Mexico (AHN) - Nearly 500 Mexicans have died along the U.S.-Mexico border so far in 2007, a Mexican official said Monday, making it the "largest migrant cemetery in the world."
The number does not include migrants from other Latin American countries.
The deputy of Mexico's Secretary of the Commission of Population, Border and Immigration Issues, Edmundo Ramirez Martinez, said that on October 30, the number of Mexican deaths had already reached 470. This makes it highly likely that this year's casualties will surpass those in 2006, which were just over 500. In 2005, approximately 375 Mexican migrants died along the border.
Seventy percent of the deaths were of people between 15 and 29 years of age.
"On average 1.5 Mexicans die every day, just for trying to cross the border," and "chasing the American dream," the federal lawmaker fired, adding that the figure does not include the dozens of migrants who are unidentified or whose bodies are not recovered in the rivers and deserts along the border.
He added that thirty percent of the cadavers recovered in the state of Arizona have not yet been identified, meaning that the total number of Mexican deaths could be much higher. One-third of those unidentified migrants were women, he added, making 2007 "the most black in the history of undocumented migration."
U.S. Border Patrol spokesperson Andrea Zortman told AHN that they registered 400 immigrant deaths slong the border in fiscal year 2007, which ended September 30. That number includes migrants of all nationalities.
The Tucson-based Human Rights Coalition, however, claims that number to be much higher. According to their calculations, over the past decade, 5,000 men, women and children of various nationalities have died trying in the region, as they attempted, and failed, to start new lives in the United States.
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And, what’s his point? Why should I care?
Migrants? Such an invalid usage of the term “migrant.”
I suppose if any American were to migrate into a bank vault
or other area in secret where some booty is kept we would be
vaunted in the media as innocent migrants just looking for
some free stuff that hard working citizens don’t mind giving
away.
This country is doomed if we leave it to the media and socialists to destroy it with their lies and distortions.
Stay home!
migrants imply they intend to migrate back...
I am highly anti-illegal. however, it is getting to the point with the invasion, that maybe if we had a pay-per-entry system, like a legal ‘coyote’ we could build some revenue, and if they would be here anyways, why not?
if they could pay-to-enter, maybe they would also go back home from time-to-time. thoughts? (my first choice is massive deportation, but that will happen (yeah right))
Mr. Mexican Official.
Why aren’t you helping your own people; instead of just complaining about it.
Number Of Mexican Migrant Deaths Along Border To Reach Record Numbers in 2007, Says Mexican Official...
500 less plus the anchor babies US taxpayers do NOT have to support!!!
Is America better off or worse off because of this?
“500 less plus the anchor babies US taxpayers do NOT have to support!!!” ????
3000 minimum.
Let's see...where shall I rank this on my list of concerns? Probably right up there with the endangered sand flea.
If it’s that bad maybe Mexico should build a wall...
Why is there no Mexican dream, amigo?
Ain’t global warming a *itch?
"On average 1.5 Mexicans die every day, just for trying to cross the border," and "chasing the American dream," the federal lawmaker fired, adding that the figure does not include the dozens of migrants who are unidentified or whose bodies are not recovered in the rivers and deserts along the border.
Why isn't there a Mexican dream for these folks to chase? What is it about the Mexican way of life that fails so many millions of people?
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