Thread: Mexico Detains 513 People Crammed Into Two US-Bound Trucks

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Mexico deports their illegal immigrants

http://obsthisland.blogspot.com/2010/05 ... rants.html

"YOU'RE DOG ON RIGHT THEY DO, AND THEY EXPECT US TO CHANGE OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS IN ORDER TO SUIT THEM AND THEIR ILLEGAL CITIZENS LIVING AND WORKING HERE IN THE U.S.". AND TO THEM, WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXPECT OUR LAWS TO BE ENFORCED. WHAT A DISGRACE THAT OUR OWN GOVERNMENT IS SO STUPID AS TO GO ALONG WITH WHAT MEXICO WANTS

Originally Posted by geocal

Here is another example of upside down backward thinking. Yes, its a shame that the folks in the trucks were being inhumanely treated. However, they got themselves into that situation by breaking Mexican immigration law and seeking to break U.S. immigration law! What Mexico should have done was vigorously prosecuted the truck drivers and their accomplices and immediately deported the illegals back to where ever they came from!

MEXICO ONLY WANT THEIR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO ILLEGALLY CROSS THAT BORDER INTO THE U.S. AND THE THING WITH ALL OF THAT IS OUR GOVERNMENT IS IN ON IT.

Mexico returns 400 of 513 migrants found in trucks
(AP) – 2 hours ago

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities returned about 400 migrants to their native Guatemala Wednesday, a day after they and 113 other migrants were found hidden inside two trailer trucks.

Officials of Mexico's National Immigration Institute said the 113 migrants still being held are from nations that don't share borders with Mexico or are Guatemalan minors or women who require special treatment.

The 400 Guatemalan migrants were returned to their country in air-conditioned buses Wednesday, a stark contrast to the sweltering, overcrowded trailers where they were found.

The remaining migrants include 47 from El Salvador, 32 from Ecuador, 12 from India, six from Nepal, three from China and one each from the Dominican Republic and Honduras, as well as Guatemalan minors and women.

Initial reports suggested that one of those aboard the trucks was Japanese, but officials later said that he was in fact Chinese.

"We have seen an increase in recent months" in the number of migrants caught while being smuggled through southern Mexico, despite the fact that "traffickers are charging increasingly high rates to move them north," noted Juan Jose Gonzalez, the head of the nonprofit group Southern Border Movement.

The immigrants found Tuesday said they had paid an average of $7,000 for the trip to the United States.

Mexican officials stressed during a visit to the southern border state of Chiapas Wednesday that new immigration facilities and inspection points are being built to fight migrant trafficking and provide humane conditions for migrants.

Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora said "we are here to find solutions and increase safety, legality and respect for the border population and migrants from Mexico, Central America and other countries," Blake Mora said.

The head of Mexico's Immigration Institute, Salvador Beltran Del Rio, said the government is building seven new immigrant holding and processing centers in southern Mexico.

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Trucks Crammed with Illegal Immigrants Bound for U.S. (Video)

Ma 18, 2011
Mexican police say they found 513 people packed inside 2 trucks heading to U.S.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4701131/truc ... t_id=86856

I was surprised that they weren't all Latinos...but think...they could smuggle Islamic terrorists into the country the same way....Lord help us all!

To stem illegal immigration, cut labor demand in U.S.
By Michael Lind, Special to CNN
May 19, 2011 1:08 p.m. EDT

Michael Lind says discovery of 513 would-be illegal immigrants should be wake-up call for U.S.
Lind: Best way to reduce illegal immigration is to reduce demand for labor of illegal immigrants
Any approach not based on crackdown of illegal employers is just political theater, says Lind

Editor's note: Michael Lind is policy director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation.

(CNN) -- News that Mexican authorities found 513 would-be illegal immigrants packed tightly into trucks, with the United States as their destination, should shock Americans into action. They were from Mexico, Japan, China, India and Nepal, and authorities said each had paid $7,000 to gangsters to be smuggled in.

Coming only days after President Obama mocked those calling for stronger border and workplace enforcement (by asking if they wanted moats and alligators), the incident highlights the role of organized crime in smuggling people into the United States in defiance of federal immigration law.

The debate about immigration reform tends to focus on catching illegal immigrants like those in the smugglers' trucks at the U.S. border, by measures like more fencing or more Border Patrol agents. But the most effective way to reduce illegal immigration is to reduce the demand for the labor of illegal immigrants.

The knowledge that American employers will not hire them would have a chilling effect on foreign nationals contemplating breaking U.S. immigration and workplace laws in the future.

The importance of the demand side in the flows of illegal immigrant labor has been proven by the Great Recession that began in 2008. According to the Department of Homeland Security, apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the border has dropped considerably in the last few years.

While some of the decline in illegal immigration may be due to enhanced enforcement, the main cause is the collapse of the demand for labor in industries like agriculture, hotels and restaurants -- which employ many of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.

Unfortunately, both parties -- when they control the executive branch -- prefer to play politics and please constituencies rather than consistently and effectively punish employers who violate federal laws against hiring illegal immigrants.

The unwillingness of the federal government, under Republicans and Democrats alike, to stem illegal immigration by concentrating on workplace enforcement, has led many Americans to turn in desperation to their state and local governments.

Some of the measures undertaken by state and local governments, like Arizona's controversial law empowering police to stop individuals on suspicion that they are illegal immigrants, are misguided incitements to racial profiling. Other measures, like symbolic state legislation calling for the end of "birthright citizenship" for the children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil, are pure demagogic rabble-rousing.

The best way to eliminate the demagogy on this issue is to eliminate the issue itself. If America's elected officials had the will to do so, further waves of illegal immigration could be swiftly and drastically reduced, although not completely eliminated, by workplace enforcement measures.

Every employer in the United States could be required to use the E-Verify system designed to ensure that workers are not using forged identity documents of the kind that organized crime routinely provides. Instead of getting off with light fines for hiring illegal immigrants rather than law-abiding American citizens and legal immigrants, employers could face steep fines or jail terms.

In the years of the bubble economy, it was possible to argue that illegal immigrants were doing jobs that no Americans would do. And a case can be made that allowing a path to citizenship for most of the illegal immigrants already in the United States would be preferable to the continued existence of an exploited shadow market labor force inside America's borders.

But with mass unemployment expected to last for years, even if the economy slowly continues to recover, it makes no sense for the taxpayers to pay unemployment benefits to unemployed Americans while employers in their own states and communities continue to hire foreign nationals who have sneaked into the United States or violated federal law by overstaying their visas.

The United States has an illegal employer problem, not just an illegal immigrant problem. Any approach to enforcement that is not based on a strict crackdown on illegal employers is nothing but political theater.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Michael Lind.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/19/l ... cnn_latest

Trucks Crammed with Illegal Immigrants Bound for U.S.
May 18, 2011
Mexican police say they found 513 people packed inside 2 trucks heading to U.S.

http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/4701131/tr ... t_id=86856

Originally Posted by LadyStClaire

Originally Posted by geocal

Here is another example of upside down backward thinking. Yes, its a shame that the folks in the trucks were being inhumanely treated. However, they got themselves into that situation by breaking Mexican immigration law and seeking to break U.S. immigration law! What Mexico should have done was vigorously prosecuted the truck drivers and their accomplices and immediately deported the illegals back to where ever they came from!

MEXICO ONLY WANT THEIR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO ILLEGALLY CROSS THAT BORDER INTO THE U.S. AND THE THING WITH ALL OF THAT IS OUR GOVERNMENT IS IN ON IT.

You nailed it LSC. Mexico only wants mexican nationals to illegally enter the US, milk all the taxpayer funded goodies they can and send billion$$ back to good ole mexico. These migrants ruined it for them.

I say we do like mexico does and send back send their illegals back to their beloved country.