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Thread ID: 3605 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2002-11-20
2002-11-20 06:46 | User Profile
From Agencia EFE, available online at: [url=http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=40305]http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=40305[/url]
Mexico gov't to ask U.S. to stop vigilantes "hunting" immigrants
EFE - 11/20/2002
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.
2002-11-20 14:00 | User Profile
Initially this made me mad. What nerve this Mexican governor must have to tell us what to do. But then I thought about it and considering that the US has for well over 100 years had no problem telling others what they ought to do. We have involved ourselves in so many other coutries both above board, and through covert activities that this is nothing more than what we deserve. The US is successful at seeing its requests fulfilled because we always tie some political interest to our request, and if unsucessful we have the means to subvert the system that rejects us. In this case the Mexican governor has the advantage because the Dems want voters looking for handouts, and the Reps want cheap labor. The most powerful nation on earth? Not when you depend on such a low class of foreigners to keep your system afloat.
2002-11-20 21:40 | User Profile
"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.
Apperantly the "rights of their countrymen" to illegally enter the United States supercede the right of US citizens to protect their property or to have a soveriegn nation.
Go Figure.
2002-11-20 22:36 | User Profile
Speaking of "armed groups that take the law into their own hands," how about the Mexican federales who routinely come across the border? Maybe the militia will ambush some of them and leave a highly embarrasing mess for Jorge and Vincente.
2002-11-20 22:40 | User Profile
Originally posted by Fliegende Hollander@Nov 20 2002, 18:36 Speaking of "armed groups that take the law into their own hands," how about the Mexican federales who routinely come across the border? Maybe the militia will ambush some of them and leave a highly embarrasing mess for Jorge and Vincente.
It would serve Jorge and Fox right to have such an incident occur. If anything, at least it would focus more people's attention on the problem neither of the two major political parties or the mainstream media will talk about: the "immivasion."