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

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

[sarcasm]

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.

[madfly]

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.

Janet Napolitano will be traveling to this meeting with Hull, she happily annouced last week.

Here is news on who helps make policy for the US.

http://www.radiobilingue.org/noticierotoday-prevjune2001.htm

http://www.radiobilingue.org/noticierotoday.htm

http://www.radiobilingue.org/noticierotoday-prevoct2002.htm

http://www.radiobilingue.org/noticierotoday-prevnov2002.htm

[RWG]

"We want to address respect for the rights of our countrymen[should only be available to them in Mexico]," 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...as opposed to unarmed groups of ILLEGALS who bankrupt health care and welfare resources.

[4Freedom]

Yeah, like the Bush administration would just suspend the U.S. Constitution and the border state's constitutions at the request of the Mexican government.

The Mexican government doesn't know Bush very well, or do they?

[RippleFire]

Bump

[IronJack]

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

"However," he added, "we couldn't care less about the rights of YOUR countrymen."

[DLfromthedesert]

Or do they? ......

[keats5]

Shucks, how unfortunate. And Mr. Fox just finished telling Dubya he couldn't quite support him in the war on terrorism.

[ApesForEvolution]

The nerve of you friggin' mexicans is absolutely unbelievable. Keep your people on your side of the border unless they want to enter America legally and apply through legal channels...we're at war and will not tolerate illegal border crossings!

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

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

This is a situation that happens quite often around the world. The simple answer is that the disparity between income levels between Americans and Mexicans is so great that allowing Americans to purchase land would have two potential serious consequences. First, huge swaths might be purchased and owned by foreign private persons and corporations and thus create a serious situation of absentee landlordism - which is never good for communities. Second, the prices would rise as a result and land would become unaffordable for Meixcans. Foreign corporations get around the law by having Mexican partners. Ultimately, this is what the govts. want - to get the foreign capital but still have some local control.

In Eastern Europe it is the same case. Otherwise the Germans would be buying what they once tried to conquer. After the countries join the EU, they will have a grace period after which they will have to allow purchases.

In most countries that have similar standards of living as the US you can purchase land, because you can't cause the same kind of harm. If you think back to how Americans felt in the 1980s while Japan was buying all of our real estate, you will understand the Mexican law.

[gaspar]

Napolitano did nothing to help the ranchers when she was Attorney General and now will do nothing while Governor.

[panaxanax]

Right on, Travis. It is not only our right, but our duty as American citizens to protect our great country in time of invasion.

The "invaders" are not only Mexicans, but Middle Easterners and Chinese as well.

Close the borders NOW!

[madfly]

You got that right!