Posted on 08/23/2009 11:25:03 AM PDT by AuntB
Mexican authorities have been sending more alleged criminals north to the U.S. for trial since President Felipe Calderon took office. Now a Mexican official is worried about a flow in the other direction.
Rommel Moreno, attorney general of Baja California state, expressed concern Friday about a plan in California to release thousands of inmates from that U.S. state's overcrowded prisons as a way to help relieve a budget crunch.
Moreno noted many inmates in the California prison system are undocumented migrants, and some could be deported once released.
A statement issued by his office said that "the repatriation of ex-convicts should be orderly and in full agreement with the Mexican government, in order to avoid a rise in crime, mainly in the border states."
"Border cities like Tijuana and Mexicali have enough problems as it with migration, so they can't suffer unilateral repatriations of people who have served a sentence in the United States," the statement said.
"The three levels of government have to plan what we are going to do with all these criminals they are going to 'export,'" Diaz Orozco said. "Many of them are going to be deported to Mexico, just because they declare themselves to be Mexicans."
Tijuana has suffered a wave of violent crime, and state prosecutors reported Friday that two men were shot to death at a pool hall late Thursday.
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Check this out, also sent by NAFBPO....It’s Honduras’ turn to whine and demand. Maddening!
A Honduran views migratory reform in the United States
La Hora (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 8/17/09
(Following is a portion of an op/col. by Raul Molina)
It seems that immigration (in the U.S.) is acceptable only when it deals with the theft of brains and talent from other countries. But that is not the case when the workers of the world propose that, in todays globalized world, human resources ought to enjoy total mobility. Once again, the leaders of neocolonialism strive to place limits on our aspirations.
Migratory reform has been suspended. This does not mean that Guatemala should stop its efforts to obtain a more just treatment for our fellow citizens. Guatemala is the most victimized country in the area of deportations. Well restart the discussions begun a few weeks ago in Chicago to redefine the concrete proposals which Guatemalas government and society, including the migrants, must take to the United States authorities.
Guatemala must set forth clearly that Guatemalan migration to the North carries with it benefits for the United States economy, but high social costs and no growth for our country. For now, it serves only as an escape valve for our underdevelopment and dependency, but at the risk of losing the younger generations, the countrys future. The United States, as a dominant country which attracts masses of the unemployed and the poor, doesnt wish the immigration of the undocumented, and neither do we. But the only way to halt the flow from Middle America is to generate growth in this region. If the United States doesnt understand this, and it seems there is no lucidity, the migration from the south will not stop no matter how many fences, physical, virtual or repressive, they might put up on the border. Until the United States gets serious about the issue, it has the obligation of stopping its policies of persecution and criminalization of what it calls illegal immigration; to do otherwise, no matter how many excuses they use, must deserve our permanent and total condemnation.
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And more whining from MEXICO!
Illegal alien students pay in-state tuition in some U.S. public universities; they are even admitted to the exclusion of others in order to fulfill minority quotas, but read what happens in Mexico.(note by NAFBPO)
El Universal (Mexico City) 8/17/09
According to the Population, Borders and Migratory Issues Committee of the Chamber of Deputies (House of Reps. of Mexico) thousands of migrant children are rejected in public schools in different cities of Mexico due to the lack of a Mexican birth certificate, which will affect their reentry into the national educational system. The chairman of the committee, Edmundo Ramirez Martinez, said There are complaints from at least two thousand parents in states such as Michoacan, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Oaxaca, Queretaro and even the Distrito Federal that, after having returned from the United States some months ago, now they have that impediment from officials in order to enroll their children in public schools. The PRI (pol. party) federal congressman explained that all those youths have U.S. citizenship and now face rejection and discrimination when they are denied entry into Mexican pre-school, elementary and high school education, who are denied the enrolment of these children of Mexican parents and origin, due to the lack of a national certificate. He pointed out that as a result of the crisis in the United States, thousands of families have returned temporarily or permanently to Mexico and now face the dilemma of obtaining a Mexican registration, at the risk of not getting it or simply not wanting to get it for fear that their children might lose their rights as U.S. citizens.
He pointed out that these children who were born in the United States and who have returned to Mexico are practically non-existent as far as the educational and health systems, which reject them because they cannot prove their Mexican citizenship.
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Foreign News Report
http://americanpatrol.com/ABP/SURVEYS/BORDER-2009/Border-Main-20009.html
And here:
http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/newsroom/highlights/fence_map.ctt/fence_map.pdf
The first one is more up to date than the one CBP has posted.
Thanks. Good info.
You can say that again!!
Be Ever Vigilant!!
Mexican authorities have been sending more alleged criminals north to the U.S. for trial since President Felipe Calderon took office. Now a Mexican official is worried about a flow in the other direction. Rommel Moreno, attorney general of Baja California state... noted many inmates in the California prison system are undocumented migrants, and some could be deported once released.Yeah, I was really worried about that too.
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