Mexico official: U.S. policy leading to deaths on border

No, sneaking into the country illegally leads to deaths on the border.

Oh, please. I hadn't finished breakfast, and inadvertently opened your link, only to be confronted with a picture of Spencer Abraham, who as Chairman of the Senate subcommittee on immigration, did more to bring about 9/11 than any other elected official. A Lebanese eager to bring in as many of his Arab kith and kin as he can, "Froggy" Abraham has long advocated open borders, to the point that the people of Michigan voted him out of office. Now I feel ill. Will have to go to Tancredo's web page and look at his picture for a moment to recover. And Castaneda, reconstructed commie, being invited as if HE IS AN ELECTED AMERICAN OFFICIAL. This is disgusting pandering. But at least it isn't MALDEF.

Oops. This was supposed to go to Brownie74. Sorry.

Round up all 3 million of them and send them back.

"Let us recognize a self-evident truth," he said. "So far, U.S. immigration policies have failed to reduce undocumented migration from Mexico and instead have fostered a dangerous and even deadly black market in human beings."

OK, at risk of being called every name in the book, I am going to say it:

THE GUY IS RIGHT!

Here is why:

During the Clinton years we, essentially, had an open border. There was no fear of getting caught because if they did, they got sandwiches and cookies and a bus ride back to the border. Then the Clintoons rushed through the naturalization of illegals so as to increase Democratic voter registration and to vote in coconuts (think Oreos) Like Loretta Sanchez.

So our open door policy has in fact encouraged the illegals to come in and as a result some die.

Friends, the anger is misdirected. We should not be angry with the Mexicans for wanting to come in; we should be demanding our INS to change the policy and to enforce the laws.

"Conditions haven't gotten bad enough for a revolution"

Well heck no they haven't, and they won't as long as they can step across our border and influence politics here and find relief instead of at home where they belong.

You are correct. We'll reach a point where a fence that really works will be installed along the entire border - hopefully with military backup. Immigrants who enter following the rules are fine. The current "invasion" chaos is unacceptable and WILL change IMHO.

Correction...
Irresponsible illegal and stupid behavior by Mexican nationals is leading to deaths.

He noted that by lobbying local governments in the United States, the Mexican government has managed to make it easier for illegal immigrants to live a more normal life. The Mexicans have pushed to get their citizens proper identification and access to college, he noted.

Meanwhile our leaders remain treasonously silent while corrupt, self-serving foreign operatives debase our government institutions. Where is our pride as a country to let this happen?

Yeah right, what makes you think that's gonna happen?

Too bad Vicente Fox is running US border policy.

But at least it isn't MALDEF.

Don't worry.... this Castaneda jerk is in cahoots with those seditionists, too.

Well it is true. If we closed the damn borders to prevent this type of entry, the problem would solve it self.

But noooooooo, that makes too much sense.

Oh, please. I hadn't finished breakfast, and inadvertently opened your link, only to be confronted with a picture of Spencer Abraham, who as Chairman of the Senate subcommittee on immigration, did more to bring about 9/11 than any other elected official.

You are right on about Abraham. And his partner in crime in Congress was Dick Chrysler, another clown from Michigan. Both led the effort to kill the legal immigration reforms of 1996. Chrysler got tossed out that year.

The good news is the same bill (almost) has been re-introduced in the House by George Gekas, so maybe it will pass this time over there. I'm not holding my breath in the Senate though with the swimmer Kennedy at the head of Immigration subcomittee. Positive reform might have to wait until after the election to see what happens.

Pride as a country? Isn't that a "hateful" statement? You aren't allowed to assert that your country has any "pride" whatsoever, unless you want to be called a "racist" or an "imperialist". You see, the agenda isn't just to destroy, it is to demoralize so that people can't or won't fight back.

I'm pretty much convinced that America is losing or has lost its will to survive as an country. About another ten to twenty million third world immigrants and we will be a third world country right here! Don't forget, there are mansions in the third world, they're just surrounded by millions of hovels, which pretty much explains the direction we are headed in.

"In some ways Mexico reminds one of a Moslem state-pervasive corruption, and tyranny tempered with the fear of assasination."

Exactly, and if anyone were really "compassionate" towards the average Mexican, this corruption would not be allowed to stand over their heads.

The worry I have about the Mexican on the street, an event that forever changed my attitude about helping Mexico or Mexicans, is their street reaction after 9-11. Selling Ben Ladin masks, t-shirts, and celebrating the hit America took. As an American, I feel I have the right to say I want that crappola contained on the other side of the border, not free to bring that hate America attitude here as is the case now.

But even as he blasted U.S. immigration practices, Castañeda acknowledged that it would likely be 2003 before the Mexican government can get Washington to return to the table for meaningful discussions. He said it would be difficult to obtain a deal in a U.S. election year.

Well you have to hand it to Castaneda. He does understand our politicians quite well. Watch for the 245i amnesty for illegals bill get passed at a midnight session right after the elections, along with other “gifts” of our sovereignty that Castaneda is DEMANDING.

Washington Times, June 27, 2002:

Top agent says U.S. must care for illegals

By Steve Miller
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

HOUSTON — The chief U.S. Border Patrol agent said yesterday that the government has a responsibility to protect Mexican citizens who are illegally crossing into the United States.

Speaking at a forum at the 73rd annual convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), David V. Aguilar said that the recent deaths of illegal migrants in Arizona presented a "challenge" to both the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, which is an agency of the INS.

"There are 17 water stations placed out there by well-meaning individuals and humanitarian organizations," Mr. Aguilar said, referring to water tanks that have been placed by pro-immigration and religious groups in remote areas of the vast desert south of Tucson, which is home to the Coronado National Forest.

"That is all there is for that entire range. The temperature there today is 140 degrees. It is impossible to survive."

Mr. Aguilar is the chief patrol agent for 281 miles of the Arizona-Mexico border. The region is now the most heavily traveled by illegal Mexican citizens coming into the United States to gain employment and sometimes education and social welfare benefits and medical care.

"We have had 350 rescues since March," Mr. Aguilar said. "We now have [emergency rescue] crews in each sector who are trained to deploy in these areas. Our mission is to control the border and with it the obligation to protect lives."

Twenty-one persons have died since June 6 trying to cross through and around the Coronado National Forest, a 1.8 million-acre range in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.

The Mexican government says 1,980 persons have perished since 1995 crossing that region; U.S. figures show that 1,370 have died in that time period.

Mr. Aguilar said his agents have rescued both illegal immigrants — primarily brought into the United States by what are referred to in Mexico as "coyotes," or smugglers — and drug traffickers.

"We are adamant that a person makes a conscious decision to come in, but not to go through the most treacherous area of the United States," he said. "And the vast majority of the people we do rescue have been brought in by these smugglers."

Some immigration reform advocates insisted yesterday that the primary mission of the Border Patrol is not to provide humanitarian assistance to illegal aliens but to police the U.S.-Mexico border. Some, however, said common humanitarian concerns would compel helping anyone in deadly peril, such as dying of thirst.

The top priority of the Border Patrol should be the prevention of illegal crossings, said Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports legal immigration. "That has to take precedence," Mr. Camarota said. "But if they do come across people who are in trouble, well, we are a great and caring nation, and we should be helping. However, the illegal alien is responsible for his own actions."

According to INS guidelines, the Border Patrol — as the mobile uniformed branch of the INS — has as its mission the detection and prevention of smuggling and the illegal entry of aliens into the United States.

Patrol agents perform their duties along and in the vicinity of the 8,000 miles of United States boundaries. Agents patrol by means of automobile, boat, aircraft, horseback, snowmobile, motorcycle, bicycle and on foot.

The guidelines say the agents are responsible for "safely and humanely detaining, transporting, processing and supervising illegal aliens awaiting removal or other disposition of their cases."

Public service announcements in Mexico have warned residents of the dangers of the Coronado crossing area.

The broadcast spots are narrated by Mexican celebrities and scroll a list of the deceased, warning that there is no water in the region for those seeking to enter the United States illegally.

A member of Mexican President Vicente Fox's Cabinet said his country was trying to stem the flow of illegal aliens into the United States and has cut the number of those attempting to emigrate by 40 percent.

But Felipe de Jesus Coronado, who is part of an immigrant rescue task force, said, "If we cannot stop them, then what we want to do is get them to cross in areas that are not so remote and dangerous."

He said the Mexican government is building observation towers that will allow the Mexican military, which has posts on the border, to observe illegal immigrants crossing into the United States.

Mr. Fox's government has added two federal prosecutors to try cases against smugglers, said Eduardo Ibarrola Nicolin, a Mexican ambassador to the United States based in Houston. Mr. Fox will address the group, which claims more than a hundred thousand members, by satellite Friday evening.

Other speakers include Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas Republican, and Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat.

Alberto Gonzales, White House counsel and former Texas secretary of state, is scheduled to speak today, along with Mel Martinez, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Pride as a country? Isn't that a "hateful" statement? You aren't allowed to assert that your country has any "pride" whatsoever, unless you want to be called a "racist" or an "imperialist". You see, the agenda isn't just to destroy, it is to demoralize so that people can't or won't fight back.

It is hateful to say that. Sorry, I slipped up there. I need to check into the nearest diversity sensitivity clinic for re-programming.

No, their own stupidity is leading to deaths on the border. They're lucky we haven't put alligators in the Rio Grande yet.

Good idea! We don't need to wait for the government to do it. I think we'd need those big African crocodiles, though. They're much more dangerous and hungry!

Reminds me of Castro blaming the US for the deaths of Cubans leaving Cuba.