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Mexican Senate decriminalizes illegal entry into Mexico
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Mexican Senate decriminalizes illegal entry into Mexico

El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 4/29/08

The Senate of Mexico voted unanimously yesterday (Monday) to de-criminalize the illegal entry of aliens into Mexico by exchanging the present jail term sanctions for "administrative" ones, meaning fines ranging from the equivalent of twenty up to five hundred days of the minimum daily wages prevalent in the Distrito Federal. However, the Senate bill as passed also has different components dealing with sanctions relating to aliens who re-enter Mexico after deportation, or who enter into marriages of convenience with Mexican citizens for the sole purpose of allowing those aliens to reside in Mexico, or regarding aliens who violate their status while in Mexico. These provisions differ from the bill to de-criminalize the illegal entry of aliens into Mexico as passed by the Chamber of Deputies (read: House of Representatives) last year. The Senate bill approval therefore did not become law and was returned to the Chamber of Deputies to iron out the differences with its own version.

Without name attribution, the article states that the federal senators and deputies agreed that "keeping the migratory status of our country in its present form only legitimizes and gives additional resources to the more conservative forces in the United States to continue their campaign of hatred against our fellow countrymen and helps the more racist sectors of the north in their determination to consider our emigrants as terrorists, thus contributing to the continued ample profit of the transnational people smuggling rings."

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The first month of the Mex. army's Chihuahua Joint Operation has yielded 108 arrests and the seizure of 61 firearms and 14.7 tons of weed. A public opinion poll by this paper shows that the operation enjoys a 90 % favorable support by the local citizenry.

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Mexico's Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs for North America, Carlos Rico, said yesterday that Mexico expects a frontal assault by the United States against weapons trafficking, one larger than its contribution to the Merida Initiative. He asked for operations by the U.S. to control the flow of firearms toward Mexico.

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Hiroshu Kato, vice-president of a fishing company in Ensenada, Baja Calif., pulled up to his parking place in front of his office yesterday while another vehicle did likewise. The driver of that vehicle, who was wearing either a head mask or a neckerchief over his face, then riddled Kato with some twelve rounds from an AK47. The killer fled and later abandoned his vehicle on the highway to Tijuana.

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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 4/29/08

In separate interviews both the mayor of Tijuana and also Mexico's Defense Secretary asserted that more military operations are in the works in that area to counteract violence. The mayor acknowledged that he receives threats via the police radio on a daily basis. There are presently three thousand Mex. soldiers in the Tijuana area but the Sec. of Defense did not specify how many more would be sent there.

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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 4/29/08

In a three day event, Mex. army & navy personnel burned a total of more than thirty-two tons of weed in the states of Nayarit and Michoacan. And Michoacan also saw its 91st execution for this year.

Re the shootout in Tijuana last weekend: 1,506 shell casings have now been collected from the various points where the firefights took place. 54 firearms and 45 clips have been turned over to the "PGR" (Mex. Dep't. of Justice). Eleven of the 22 vehicles involved, many reported stolen, had California license plates.

And the death toll has risen to sixteen.

And yet another man was found dumped along the Tijuana to Ensenada highway. The head was inside a black plastic bag; there were signs of torture and his hands and feet had been tied. He had apparently been strangled. Next to the body there was a notice reading "For being a coward and a traitor."

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El Porvenir (San Luis Potosi, SLP) 4/29/08

Ruth Zavaleta admitted that she continues to receive death threats. (she is the Mexican equivalent of the Speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress and belongs to the leftist "PRD" party whose presidential candidate lost the last election by a very close margin). Diehards from the PRD believe she ought not to be working within an administration which they perceive as having stolen the election. The losing candidate, Manuel Lopez Obrador, is still considered by some - including some newspapers - to be the real, genuine president and not President Calderon. Lopez Obrador , working with the "Ample Progressive Front", orchestrated a just concluded fifteen day "kidnapping" of the Mexican Congress by physically occupying its chambers)

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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 4/29/08

The Bank of Honduras reported that individual monetary remittances from the U.S. ("migradollars") into Honduras rose to $666.9 million dollars during the first quarter of this year despite the economic slowdown in the U.S. mainly in housing construction. That amount is 12.3% over the $593.9 million sent to Honduras in 2007. The president of the bank foresees not a diminution but a decrease in the rate of growth of these remittances. "Migradollars" account for nearly a fourth of Honduras' GNP.

A wave of violence flails Honduras; the sub-headline in the report about the latest five victims linked to organized crime type murders reads: "With these cases, the (number of) victims reaches 107 in less than 24 hours."

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La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salv.) 4/29/08

A Cuban government delegation is traveling to Mexico and will begin negotiations toward an immigration accord between the two nations. The goal is to provide for a "legal, secure and orderly flow" of Cuban citizens who wish to travel to Mexico

When the pilot of a Venezuelan registry light aircraft saw that he was being followed he landed near Livingston (on Guatemala's east coast just south of Belize). Whoever was in the plane disappeared into the jungle. The plane was found to have 470 kgs. of cocaine and an assault rifle; this makes the fourth seizure this month in Guatemala.

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Without name attribution, the article states that the federal senators and deputies agreed that "keeping the migratory status of our country in its present form only legitimizes and gives additional resources to the more conservative forces in the United States to continue their campaign of hatred against our fellow countrymen and helps the more racist sectors of the north in their determination to consider our emigrants as terrorists, thus contributing to the continued ample profit of the transnational people smuggling rings."

Uhhhhhhhhhhh...what???

Here come all the central Americans..

I agree Rockfish. Flood Mexico and push them north! Thet must be the strategy now! Build the fence!

A Cuban government delegation is traveling to Mexico and will begin negotiations toward an immigration accord between the two nations. The goal is to provide for a "legal, secure and orderly flow" of Cuban citizens who wish to travel to Mexico

Now is a really good time to stop the wet foot dry foot scheme to defraud the American Populace

Sound to me like they are using this as a political point to those of us in America who have seen their laws on illegal immigration as hypocritical compared to how they complain about us wanting our immigration laws enforced.

Oh well, Mexico, good try, but it does not washm we know how corrupt you are and things will really not change there, it will only be something you have voted to put into writing, nothing more than that.

We will still say "enforce our laws, attrition through enforcement, deport the criminals that are caught and secure our borders".

Without name attribution, the article states that the federal senators and deputies agreed that "keeping the migratory status of our country in its present form only legitimizes and gives additional resources to the more conservative forces in the United States to continue their campaign of hatred against our fellow countrymen and helps the more racist sectors of the north in their determination to consider our emigrants as terrorists, thus contributing to the continued ample profit of the transnational people smuggling rings."

Doesn't this show the contempt and hatred the Mexican Senate holds toward the United States?

Are they not stating that the United States citizens against illegal immigration contributes to smugglers and coyotes profits? (i.e. open borders = no smugglers)

Without name attribution, the article states that the federal senators and deputies agreed that "keeping the migratory status of our country in its present form only legitimizes and gives additional resources to the more conservative forces in the United States to continue their campaign of hatred against our fellow countrymen and helps the more racist sectors of the north in their determination to consider our emigrants as terrorists, thus contributing to the continued ample profit of the transnational people smuggling rings."

Instead of providing opportunity for their citizens, negating the so called necessity for their people to head north ,they apparently change their law, decriminalizing the illegal entry into Mexico.

I suppose such a symbolic gesture is much easier to perform than to actually provide real opportunity for their citizens. In addition, the Mexicans seem to believe their policy changes will compel the United States to adopt an open borders policy in which Mexico would be the primary beneficiary.

Mexico has a right to do anything it deems necessary in the way of policy without expecting the United States to modify our policy in response. Since when did these two governments begin to act in depedence of one another in the way of policy formation. This is quite disturbing!

Anyone who still belives Mexico does not have a vested interest in sending as many of their citizens north as humanly possible is not living in reality. Mexico is never, ever going to do anything to stop or prevent it's citizens from entering the US illegally.

A Cuban government delegation is traveling to Mexico and will begin negotiations toward an immigration accord between the two nations. The goal is to provide for a "legal, secure and orderly flow" of Cuban citizens who wish to travel to Mexico

They forgot to add "to get to the United States".

Calderon recently signed trade agreements with Cuba and has been dealing with Iran.

Calderon is playing a dangerous game--trying to 'influence' U.S. policy by forming closer Mexican relations with Cuba and Iran.

Sounds to me like Calderon is saying "see, if you do not accept us and our millions of citizens in your country illegally, defacto, and allow us to have full access to the American economy, then we will make agreements and pacts with some of Americans biggest enemies". In other words they are trying to play us by making kissy kissy with bad boy leaders (maybe they think it will make us "scared" of them by having nutjob leaders as their allies?).