Protests staged at bridge focusing on immigration issues

The Brownsville Herald ^ | Oct. 17, 2002 | Angeles Negrete Lares

[madfly]

referring to illegal immigrants who fall victim to the often harsh South Texas climate and other factors in their attempts to reach such locations as Houston and Dallas.

People who jump off bridges often fall victim to the harsh force of the water below and die.

[madfly]

border victims ping! /sarcasm

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[dennisw]

Screw 'em. This is the great USA. Not a corrupt pesthole named Mexico.

That's why they want to leech off us.

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[FITZ]

"Thousands of people are participating right now (in the protest) to demand that the border agenda be brought back to focus for both governments (Mexico and United States)," said Ruben Solis, one of the protesters.

The guy can't count ---apparently there were 30 on the US side, 15 on the Mexican side --that's only 45.

[FITZ]

"The problems we face on the U.S-Mexico border region are common to both sides of the border," Solis said.

What a liar ---people from the US aren't the ones dying trying to get into Mexico, Mexicans aren't having to provide a living for millions of Americans. There isn't much in common for both sides of the border and that's much of the problem. The corrupt class of Mexico doesn't want improvements.

[MissAmericanPie]

Socialist math is different, just ask the "Million Mom March". Old math would say there were about 40,000 there, but Socialist math says over a million. No wonder we are in debt as a nation.

It works in reverse as well, if ten million conservatives showed up in D.C. it would be reported that the count was 2,000, if you heard about it in the news media at all that is.

[madfly]

They had 300 at the Nogales protest and there were also "victims" simultaneously protesting in San Diego. I'm checking for articles on these.

Border Protest at the American Built border fence.
Tijuana, Baja Norte Mexico
[date unknown]

[FITZ]

I didn't hear of any protests in El Paso/Juarez which are one of the bigger border towns. There was one the other day in Juarez but that was Mexican farmers protesting something but not immigration. Maybe because the border is so easy here there's no reason to protest.

[SAMWolf]

Screw em.

If you're here as an illegal, the only "right" you have is a trip back to wherever you came from.

[norton]

"The problems we face on the U.S-Mexico border region are common to both sides of the border," Solis said....

"What a liar" (Fitz said)

I don't agree - the first comment is entirely accurate - it just means something other than intended.

There are too many mexicans on both sides of the border and it's too easy for them to commute.

Sounds like a common problem to me.

[Landru]

What a shithole of a mess we're in, here.
Loudmouths Liberal-Socialist 'Rats, foreigners, bloodsucker-socialists & their graduated communist iterations from God-knows-where all attempting to dictate the future of a once great nation, like this.

No one having enough *stuff* appears willing to step up to the plate, and do what's needed to put a stop to this kind of bullshit, either.

...no one.

[Chi-Town Lady]

"Whether we are residents of Mexico or the U.S. side of the border, we suffer similar injustices: poverty, violence, unemployment, low salaries and poor public services such as education, health care, electricity and water," said Helga Garcia-Garza, reading from a statement released by the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ), which organized the demonstration.

So why aren't these people outside Fox's office protesting? After all he's the president of their country and he's the one responsible for their plight. Oh, yeah I forget he's a criminal just like the rest of them.

[RnMomof7]

"Whether we are residents of Mexico or the U.S. side of the border, we suffer similar injustices: poverty, violence, unemployment, low salaries and poor public services such as education, health care, electricity and water," said Helga Garcia-Garza, reading from a statement released by the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ), which organized the demonstration

I suppose it was too much to expect that the Border Patrol was there checking papers on the American side huh? Bush will never get another vote from me..he is determined to make America a borderless country..

[madfly]

Some recent congressional testimony by CIS that I haven't seen news of. Not surprising.

Full Text

 
Threats to National Security:
The Asylum System, The Visa Lottery, and 245(i)

Testimony prepared for the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
October 9, 2002

By Steven A. Camarota
Research Director, Center for Immigration Studies
 

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When Hesham Mohamed Hedayet murdered Victoria Hen and Yaakov Aminov at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4 of this year, many observers mistakenly saw his crime, like the attacks of September 11th, as either unpreventable random acts of terrorism or as representing failures only of intelligence, law enforcement, or perhaps even airport security. While it is extremely important to consider possible failures in each of these areas, a careful examination of the immigration history of Mr. Hedayet reveals that fundamental failures in our immigration system also played a critically important part in allowing him to commit his heinous crime.

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[greggery_peccary]

"Whether we are residents of Mexico or the U.S. side of the border, we suffer similar injustices: poverty, violence, unemployment, low salaries and poor public services such as education, health care, electricity and water," said Helga Garcia-Garza, reading from a statement released by the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ), which organized the demonstration.

Having previously lived in the Rio Grande Valley for several years...before finally getting out 14 years ago...I can easily say the reason that area has all of the aforementioned problems is because they insist on being an extension of Mexico. (Brownsville used to have the Mexican flag flying over city hall). IMHO, they have nobody to blame but themselves.