Mexico gov't to ask U.S. to stop vigilantes "hunting" immigrants news

The News (Mexico City) ^ | November 20, 2002

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TUCSON, Arizona - The governor of the Mexican state of Sonora plans to ask the U.S. government at the Arizona-Sonora Commission's upcoming annual meeting to stop vigilante groups "hunting" for undocumented immigrants along the border, he said in a press release Tuesday.

Sonora Gov. Armando Lopez Nogales said he will ask his U.S. counterpart, Arizona Gov. Jane Hull, to put an end to the militia groups patrolling the border during the meeting set to begin Friday in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora.

"We want to address respect for the rights of our countrymen," Lopez Nogales said in the press release, calling on the U.S. federal government to reign in armed groups that take the law into their own hands.

Lopez Nogales cited the Barnett brothers of Douglas, Arizona, who for three years have detained at gunpoint undocumented migrants trying to cross into the United States through their lands.

The Mexican governor's statement comes in response to an editorial published last week by The Tumbleweed of Tombstone, Arizona, which billed itself as "a public call to arms" and urged local residents to join a "Citizens Border Patrol Militia."

The Citizens Border Patrol Militia would be the third U.S. vigilante group to operate along the Arizona border, after units of Texas' Ranch Rescue and California's American Border Patrol were formed in the area to track down undocumented migrants in the name of protecting ranching interests.

High-level officials from both sides of the border, including Arizona Governor-elect Janet Napolitano, who takes office Jan. 6, are expected to attend the bi-national conference.

[NewFork]

First I'd like to know why we can't buy real estate in Mexico.

[Cold Heat]

We need to replace the vigilantes....................

With trained, uniformed border police. Thousands of them!

[Texas_Jarhead]

the mezkin government can kiss my arse

[ECM]

What can be done about 'vigilantes' on their own land?

[Tancredo Fan]

Open season.

[Washington_minuteman]

"We want to address respect for the rights of our countrymen," Lopez Nogales said in the press release, calling on the U.S. federal government to reign in armed groups that take the law into their own hands.

Maybe Nogales wouldn't have to worry about the "rights" of his countrymen if they would obey international law and stop crawling across the border unlawfully, like snakes, and stay in Mexico.

The fact that the administration refuses to protect the borders should tell everyone that the idea of a Pan-American Union appeals to them far more than a sovereign Republic and it's Constitution.

I'd expect the F-Troopers to go down there soon and murder the militiamen; in their sleep, of course.

[Tancredo Fan]

It takes a hell of a lot of nerve for the despicable Mexican government to start barking demands to D.C. to act out against Americans who want the onslaught stopped. The fact is that most of these ranchers could give a rats a** about the U.S. government for all the help they have provided over the past few years. If I were a Mexican, I'd stay there. It's better for their health.

[chuckles]

OK, we'll stop the vigilante justice when the Federale's stop the illegals.

[Tancredo Fan]

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[.45MAN]

Your absolutely right!!!! Give the vigilantes uniforms....

[Travis McGee]

It's wartime; we should plow a 100 yard strip along the border and shoot any "suspected terrorist infiltrators" who we find in it.

Word will get around quick, and there will be no more criminal invaders.

[Cacique]

A Must Read by Everyone on the subject of immigration (click on picture)

The Hardcover edition.

[Lion's Cub]

This joker's lucky we don't decide to go hunting in Mexico. That may be what we have to do before we can solve this.

[madfly]

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[nicmarlo]

"We want to address respect for the rights of our countrymen," Lopez Nogales said

Okay, just as soon as we address respect for the rights of our countrymen, our tax dollars, our public education system, our health care facilities, our welfare system, our voting system.......until then, your illegal alien Mexicans have no rights to be in AMERICA.

[Redleg Duke]

"We want to address respect for the rights of our countrymen,"

The so-called "rights" of your countrymen end at our border, Pancho! Keep them on your side and nobody has to get their feathers ruffled!

[madfly]

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[madfly]

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