Thread: Mexican migration officials arrest 2 Iraqis w/fake passports

MEXICO CITY: Two California-bound Iraqi brothers, apparently Christians, were arrested in northern Mexico with false passports, immigration officials said Tuesday.

The brothers were detained Monday at the airport in the northern city of Monterrey after they arrived on a flight from Madrid, Spain, with fake Swedish passports, said Luis Robles, a Mexican immigration official in Monterrey.

John Georges Hanna Abona, 25, and Sarmad Georges Hanna Abona, 30, told authorities they were Chaldean Christians trying to join relatives in California, Robles said.

The pair told investigators they left Iraq in November and went to Greece, Turkey and then Spain, where they purchased the false documents, Robles said.

They were sent to an immigration detention center in Mexico City pending charges for using false documents.

In January, immigration authorities in Monterrey detained 11 Iraqi Christians who also arrived on a flight from Spain and who were on their way to California. Mexico decided not to deport them.

Chaldean Christians have a sizable community in Southern California and frequently try to enter the United States through Mexico, claiming they face persecution in Iraq.

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Originally Posted by Nouveauxpoor

MEXICO CITY: Two California-bound Iraqi brothers, apparently Christians, were arrested in northern Mexico with false passports, immigration officials said Tuesday.

The brothers were detained Monday at the airport in the northern city of Monterrey after they arrived on a flight from Madrid, Spain, with fake Swedish passports, said Luis Robles, a Mexican immigration official in Monterrey.

John Georges Hanna Abona, 25, and Sarmad Georges Hanna Abona, 30, told authorities they were Chaldean Christians trying to join relatives in California, Robles said.

The pair told investigators they left Iraq in November and went to Greece, Turkey and then Spain, where they purchased the false documents, Robles said.

They were sent to an immigration detention center in Mexico City pending charges for using false documents.

In January, immigration authorities in Monterrey detained 11 Iraqi Christians who also arrived on a flight from Spain and who were on their way to California. Mexico decided not to deport them.

Chaldean Christians have a sizable community in Southern California and frequently try to enter the United States through Mexico, claiming they face persecution in Iraq.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/ ... tained.php

Wow so they enter other foreign countries illegally with fake documents? There more at risk trying to get here through Mexico to come here being foreign! It seems that Mexico does a better job curbing there immigration problems there our country!!!

Just because they government is against them does not mean that it is America's responsibility to let them illegally. Every person in the world is hurt in some way.