Thread: U.S.-Bound Central Americans Begin to Settle in Mexico

U.S.-Bound Central Americans Begin to Settle in Mexico



WASHINGTON – Central American migrants who set out from their countries intending to reach the United States have begun to settle in Mexico, indicating a new migratory phenomenon, experts say.

“This is new,” Gustavo Mohar Betancourt, Mexico’s former undersecretary of Population, Migration, and Religious Affairs, told Efe.

“We notice they are settling in central Mexican cities like Guadalajara, Aguascalientes and Queretaro. On the border there are more and more (Central American migrants) in Tijuana,” Mohar, now a private consultant, said.

When he addressed the “Managing Borders in North America: Charting the Future” conference, he said that some municipal governments, such as that of Tijuana – next door to San Diego, California – have begun to protest about this migratory phenomenon.

“It’s basically people from Honduras and El Salvador,” Mohar said, adding that the situation should be treated as a “yellow light” to reflect its threat level.

“In Tijuana,” he said, “those who can’t cross over to the United States are staying here, and there are more of them stranded here all the time.”

Mohar was the chief Mexican negotiator on migration matters in bilateral conversations under the administrations of President George W. Bush and Vicente Fox.

Another speaker, David Aguilar, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the waves of Central Americans headed for the United States have increased over the past two years.

“The immigration of Central Americans has increased by 50 percent,” he said. “Basically Hondurans, Salvadorans and Guatemalans.”

Central Americans cross Mexico’s southern border by land, and after traversing Mexican territory they must find a way to enter the United State.

In recent years the number of complaints about the abuse of Central American immigrants in Mexico has grown.

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?Arti...tegoryId=14091

According to the Libertarian Party's arguments supporting a US open borders policy, hoards of foreign immigrants drive an economy forward and create prosperity. This ought to be good news for Mexico and its weak economy. Also, by the Libertarian economic spin, California ought to be the most prosperous state in the union.

The Libertarian Party has real philosophical problems trying to jack pose free enterprise economics upon Marxist social policies.

The Libertarian Party has strange beliefs about illegal immigration.

Libertarian Party on Immigration

. Eliminate all restrictions on immigration. (Jul 2000) . http://www.alipac.us/f9/libertarian-...issues-297153/

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Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

“It’s basically people from Honduras and El Salvador,” Mohar said, adding that the situation should be treated as a “yellow light” to reflect its threat level.

“In Tijuana,” he said, “those who can’t cross over to the United States are staying here, and there are more of them stranded here all the time.”

Mexico makes virtually impossible to emigrate there. I think we need to recommend a dose of Libertariain bromide: Let them settle there, already. They're doing jobs that Mexicans won't do.
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