Mexico Will Sue US Over Border Control?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The World
Frankly, I understand Mexico’s concerns, but the idea that somebody would sue the US for enforcing their borders is pretty out there. True, the people who are trying to come into our country illegally will have to find more dangerous avenues to break our law. But that’s grounds for suing the US?
“If there is a real wave of rights abuses, if we see the National Guard starting to directly participate in detaining people … we would immediately start filing lawsuits through our consulates,” Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez told a Mexico City radio station. He did not offer further details.Mexican officials worry the crackdown will lead to more deaths. Since Washington toughened security in Texas and California in 1994, migrants have flooded Arizona’s hard-to-patrol desert and deaths have spiked. Migrant groups estimate 500 people died trying to cross the border in 2005. The Border Patrol reported 473 deaths in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
And although I think amenesty programs represent the most common sense approach to citizenship for those in our country illegally, I definitely agree with this observation by a Mexican official.
In Ciudad Juarez, Julieta Nunez Gonzalez, local representative of the Mexican government’s National Immigration Institute, said Tuesday she will ask the government to send its migrant protection force, known as Grupo Beta, to more remote sections of the border.Sending the National Guard “will not stop the flow of migrants, to the contrary, it will probably go up,” as people try to get into the U.S. in the hope that they could benefit from a possible amnesty program, Nunez said.
Again, I don’t think Mexico has the right, but as this story progresses, we’ll have more commentary on it.
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May 17th, 2006 at 6:13 am
The Sheriff will be at your door this morning with an order demanding your spare key and the PIN for your alarm.
May 17th, 2006 at 10:39 am
The sign is racist! Can they make the male a little shorter? I mean I think if we had a German immigration problem, the guy silhoutte would be taller than the woman, would be taller than the child…why don’t they just put little sombraros on their heads?
May 17th, 2006 at 10:47 am
And do you really “run” across the border — I mean why not a picture of a family wading across a river or jumping a fencing or a family packed into the back of a truck. Isn’t all that prohibido-d too?
May 17th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
That sign of people running is the one they post at oceanside on I-5 to so that drivers will watch out for migrants running across the freeway. It is a real hazard. It relate directly to getting across the Rio Grande, but it does relate to migrants.
The comments or threats or whatever from the foreign Secretary are presumptuous and inappropriate, but considering how totally cooperative Mexico is at taking back anyone we send back without even making us do the minimum of proving the guy/gal really is a Mexican citizen, they deserve some slack.
Behind all the posturing in the news media, there is a fairly decent level of real cooperation between the two governments on this. Example – remember that border incursion a few months ago, where some Mexican troops crosssed into Texas and the Texas Rangers or somebody caught them? Remember how they had them dead to rights, and the Mexicans mumbled somethng about how they weren’t Mexican soldiers, or they were Americans in Mexican uniforms, or some such transparent nonsense – and how it all went suddenly quiet? It went quiet because those bogus excuses were a sign the Mexicans admitted the problem. Of course – they had to There is no denying it, on either side, and they we know they know that we know that their army units on the border are corrupt tools of the smuggling cartels, both drugs and migrants, and they regularly make these incursions, and if there was any way they could stop it, they would already be doing it. So basically there was no point in making an embarrassing display of what is already obvious.
May 17th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Mexico is just looking for a handout from the U.S. so they can give it to their corrupt little buddies. The U.S. already gives them money for ‘law enforcement’. I can see that those funds are being put to great use.
May 17th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
[...] Via Donklephant comes this wire service story: “If there is a real wave of rights abuses, if we see the National Guard starting to directly participate in detaining people Â… we would immediately start filing lawsuits through our consulates,” Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez told a Mexico City radio station. He did not offer further details. [...]
May 19th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
In turn, we should sue Mexico for human rights violations every time they encourage their citizens to cross the border illegally.
May 30th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
It is THEIR choice to die. If they break the rules, they know they take their chance…I have ZERO pity for them. Let them go see their own
government! Let them die in the desert; it’s their choice.
Once again, the corrupt hill shows crime pays. They should know.
ONE RULE FOR THE RICH AND POOR ALIKE!
Give us Liberty or give us death AND WE MEAN IT! We are tired of two
sets of rules: one for the so called VIPS and one for us pions.
Obey the LAW or what happens to you is YOUR OWN FAULT!
We have more “sympathy” for the law breakers than those who follow the laws and rules. That is a CORRUPTION OF JUSTICE…
ONE RULE FOR ALL!! WE WILL SETTLE FOR NOTHING LESS.
IF THE HILLS TWO CORRUPT PARTIES WILL NOT LISTEN VOTE THIRD PARTY!!!
DOWN WITH HILL “PEROGATIVES”!! DOWN WITH ALL PERKS…ALL OF THEM!!!
September 4th, 2006 at 8:18 am
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