Bonilla Demands Review of OTM Release Policy
By Karen Gleason The News-Herald Published July 31, 2004
Releasing undocumented immigrants to roam freely in the U.S. is "a terrible policy," U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla told Del Rio and Eagle Pass leaders during a press conference in Del Rio Friday, and announced he is asking the Department of Homeland Security to take a hard look at the issue.
"If these people were being released in your neighborhood I am sure you would be outraged. This is happening in the communities I represent and I am outraged," Bonilla said in a letter Thursday to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Bonilla released copies of the letter during his press conference Friday.
More than 5,200 illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico (often referred to as OTMs) have been processed in the Del Rio Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol since January 2004, Bonilla said. Of that number more than 4,400 - about 85 percent - have been subsequently released in the Del Rio Sector.
Bonilla said a total of 15,000 such undocumented immigrants have been released in Texas since the beginning of the year.....
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I also found the following quote from Vincente Fox....
Per Vincente Fox, “"We're going for more. We're going for more, I'm talking about a community of North America, an integrated agreement of Canada, the United States and Mexico in the long term, 20, 30, 40 years from now.
That may mean in 10 years we can open up that border when we have reduced the gap in salaries and income."
MAybe it's posted somewhere. I don't see why a FOIA request couldn't get it.