Thread: Mexican border town gearing up to deal with returning migran

Mexican border town gearing up to deal with returning migrants
Associated Press
Jan. 14, 2008 11:43 AM

YUMA - Officials in a Mexican border town are weighing their options for dealing with the large number of migrants that they expect to see returning to Mexico as Arizona's employer sanctions law takes hold.

The officials in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico, across the border from San Luis, Ariz., are looking at the possibility of establishing a city-run assistance center for repatriated immigrants, Mayor Ruben Espino said.

They're also looking at an alternative idea of allocating city funds for the city's existing Casa del Migrante, an immigrant shelter also under city jurisdiction, Espino said.


The mayor said he would prefer to put more funding into the existing shelter since that would appear to be less costly than creating and staffing an assistance center.

Espino said the city will need financial assistance from Mexico's federal government to handle the anticipated influx of immigrants, who sometimes remain homeless in cities across the border from the United States after their deportations.

Espino and officials in other Mexican border cities have predicted the Arizona law will cause a reverse wave of migration.

Under the law, which took effect Jan. 1, businesses that knowingly employ illegal immigrants could have their licenses suspended for up to 10 days. Second-time violators would have their business licenses permanently revoked.


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Sounds like a personal problem.

I would also like to repeat something an old First Sergeant told me many years back

An Emergancy on my part doesnt constitute a Emergency on his part

Moral of the story: You didnt complain when you allowed the best that Mexico has to offer to cross our border; so dont complain when we give you back what you graciously gave us

Soooo suck it down Grasshopper and walk gently on the rice paper

Also a center for assistance to Mexicans including those trying to violate our laws is treated as ordinary. It is the Mexicans who want to obey our laws sometimes after deportation who need to be funded by a special measure.

Mayor in Mexico learns U.S. dilemma
January 23, 2008 - 10:29PM
What a wonderful awakening by Mayor Ruben Espino of San Luis Rio Colorado, Son., as reported in The Sun recently. People are coming into his community because of recent Arizona law changes and they will be a burden to the social services of his city.

There is probably not a mayor in any Western or border state city that couldn't directly relate to Espino's dilemma of having people come into an area and needing social services. One difference is that they came in to the U.S. illegally.

While Espino has asked for help from the Mexican government to ease his city's burden, it will be interesting to see if the Mexican federal government will turn it's back on him as they have on the plight of U.S. mayors that have needed support from the Mexican government to stop illegal crossings from Mexico into the U.S.

The U.S. federal government has turned its back on the U.S. mayors for years, so what else is new? Distribution of handouts and maps to persons crossing back into Mexico, even if they are not Mexican citizens, to aid them in obtaining social services would be a great service that the Chamber of Commerce and like organizations could perform.

This would help to balance their many efforts in behalf of the business community to stop or cripple laws supported by the those people that have been burdened by the past 30 years of unimpeded illegal U.S entry by needy people from Mexico and further South.

Does a baby born in Mexico to a non-Mexican woman at the expense of the Mexican taxpayers get a Mexican citizenship?

Hopefully the article in The Sun on Jan. 14 about Espino's plight, that was reprinted from the sister publication Bajo el Sol, will not be run in any Washington, D.C. papers. President Bush would propose sending U.S. tax dollars to Espino to tide him over until Bush's Immigration/amnesty law can get passed by the new Democrat Congress.

He would probably call it revenue neutral because it would be money we would have spent on these people anyway.


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MIKE GORMAN
Yuma

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