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    Brizilians using Mexico to enter US illegally

    Brizilians usung Mexico to enter US illegally

    By Tim Gaynor
    REUTERS
    3:37 p.m. April 22, 2005

    MONTERREY, Mexico, – U.S. authorities arrested nearly 150 Brazilians who got into Texas illegally from Mexico this week, in a case that highlighted a booming illegal migration route, authorities said Friday.

    U.S. Border Patrol agents in south Texas said they arrested 147 Brazilian nationals at five locations between Rio Grande City and McAllen Thursday, after they crossed over from Mexico's northern Tamaulipas state.

    The U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection said the arrests brought the number of Brazilians nabbed crossing from Mexico to 15,428 since the start of the fiscal year on Oct 1, up from 8,629 in the whole of fiscal 2004.

    U.S. and Mexican government sources attributed the rise to the abolition of visas required by Brazilians entering Mexico in recent years and a catch-and-release policy by law enforcement agencies in the United States.

    "Many Brazilians are arriving in Mexico as tourists, and then they use their stay to try and get into the United States, where they just stay on," National Immigration Institute spokesman Mauricio Juarez told Reuters.

    No figures were available for the number of Brazilians entering Mexico since the visa waiver was introduced in 2000.

    Juarez said most Brazilians attempting the journey north flew into Mexico City, then headed up to the U.S. border on buses to cross with the help of a paid guide or "coyote."

    Illegal aliens from so-called "third countries" such as Brazil are given security and criminal background checks when apprehended in the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

    Those not deemed a risk to U.S. homeland security or found to have a criminal record are often released on their own recognizance with a notice to appear before an immigration judge at a later date.

    ICE had no figures of the number of immigrants failing to keep court appearances, though law enforcement sources on the Texas border said most Brazilian immigrants just traveled on into the United States regardless.

    "They call the court notice 'the diploma,'" said Tomas Herrera, the sheriff of Maverick County near Eagle Pass. "Once they get it, they call up relatives on the east coast and ask for money, and when they get it they just skip town," he added.
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    All Latino illegals and then some use Mexico to get in.The Brazilians are probably the next big wave.Given the conditions in just Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro you can see why.Here in the Bay Area their population has risen 100% in the last few years alone.

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    Someone needs to end this now or we will be overrun with all of Latin America. I am sorry they are poor and want a better life but I've had enough of subsidizing their existence. We need to set the example that we are going to crack down on the law or else they will keep on coming. They do not respect us because we have shown them that we will not enforce laws.

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    You're right Yankee;however in the case of the Mexicans that come things are slightly different.They feel entitled to the American southwest and west because it was once part of Mexico.We remember the Alamo but so do they and the fact is as bad as I hate to say,the Americans were illegal immigrants into Texas.The just feel they're taking their territory back that was illegally invaded and taken.If you really keep score,the price we've paid until now is nothing for the value they lost in the southwest and west.

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