Thread: ACLU Partners with Mexico to Interfere in Enforcement of U.S

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ACLU Partners with Mexico to Interfere in Enforcement of U.S. Laws

The ACLU and Mexico’s Commission on Human Rights have pledged to work together to protect migrants’ human rights along the U.S.-Mexico border. The groups say they’ll challenge Operation Gatekeeper and other federal programs that put migrants’ lives in danger. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson has details.

Operation Gatekeeper is the federal government’s attempt to stem the flow of illegal immigrants in San Diego in the mid-1990s.

The government built miles of border fencing and beefed up the Border Patrol.

Illegal traffic in San Diego dropped. But people continued to cross in more dangerous areas. Deaths soared.

Kevin Keenan is Executive Director of the ACLU in San Diego. He says the problem is not going away.

Keenan: The fence keeps getting larger. Deaths have increased. And so it is incumbent on us to try again to figure out how to stop this inhumane waste of life.

The ACLU and Mexico’s Human Rights Commission plan to meet in June to determine how they’ll challenge Gatekeeper.

Meanwhile, the U.S. federal government plans to build 470 more miles of border fencing by the end of the year.

ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties
P.O. Box 87131
San Diego, CA 92138-7131

Tel: 619-232-2121

to figure out how to stop this inhumane waste of life.


Its quite simple. Tell them to stop coming.

The solution is simple:

Come through the front door, and stop trying to sneak through the back one.
Many thousands of people from Mexico (and Canada, and elsewhere) do exactly that every single day.

Oh, forgot the obvious... Hey DHS! Build the darn fence already!!!

TRANSLATED FROM:
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/500660.html

The national ombudsman, José Luis Soberanes Fernández, signed an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the U.S., to develop a program of counseling and legal defense for affected migrants, called the Guardian Program. The National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) reported in a communiqué that the agreement was formed in San Diego, California, and recalled that the Guardian Program has among their objectives to indict immigration agents that commit abuses.

It emphasized that the ACLU is a non-governmental organization of national reach in the United States, that promotes the respect to the constitutional liberties and the defense of the fundamental rights.

The president of the agency, upon signing the agreement, explained that, with the legal team of the ACLU and the CNDH, strategies will be explored and legal actions for fundamental rights violations cases against migrants will be presented , before courts in the United States "and, if necessary, before international courts".

"No migrant should die. Immigration is not only a need for work, but it also responds to a labor demand in this country", the ombudsman said, after reckoning that each year some 400 thousand Mexicans enter in a undocumented way to the United States in search of employment.

Only in the border of Mexico with the state of California it is estimated more than 5 thousand people have died in their attempt of crossing or upon being pursued by migratory agents or by groups of individuals.

Kevin Keenan, regional director of the ACLU in San Diego, trusts that whith this agreement "there will be better bridges of comprehension in favor of justice and to impede that the lenghtening of the walls of hatred towards the migrants", reported the CNDH.

David Shrink, director of the Cross-border Institute, one of the groups unionized to the ACLU, trusts that the agreement can contribute to revert" the tragic tendency of increasing deaths along the border with Mexico".

Among the joint activities, are legal monitoring of cases is foreseen of migrants mistreated by Border Patrol agents, that have been remaining unpunished or subject to administrative fines or to minimum punishments.

Regarding Mexico, affirmed Soberanes, "a great responsibility in abuse cases also exists, the exploitation and the deaths of migrants, upon not generating sufficient opportunities of self sufficiency and development for those who end up being launched to the uncertain adventure of migration".

The ombudsman considered that one of the better possibilities of defense of migrants is found in the land of the social organization and in courts.

I think we need to challenge the ACLU on what they are doing. Aren't they operating outside their charter, so to speak?

Where does it say anywhere on their web site etc that they operate to protect the rights of mexicans or other foreigners let alone partnering with a foreign organization like the Mexiacn commisison on human rights.

ACLU, rights commission from Mexico sign accord

April 22, 2008

SAN DIEGO: Stressing their joint commitment to protecting migrants' rights on both sides of the border, Mexico's National Commission for Human Rights signed an accord yesterday with the American Civil Liberties Union for San Diego and Imperial Counties.

Under the agreement, formalized at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego, the groups will “explore legal actionsâ€

Moving from General Discussion to News.

who will they represent in front of what court?

Is the ACLU and the CNDH going to side with the drug smugglers?
Operation Gatekeeper has reduced human and drug smuggling in the SD area.

They will make fools of themselves!!!