Mexican Legislators Decry U.S. Border Control Program
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Excelsior , Milenio (both Mexico City) 3/6/08

(note: Operation "No Pase", (read: Do Not Come Across) in the El Paso area, and the similar Operation Streamline elsewhere on the border, provide for criminal charges against persons who cross the border into the U.S. illegally; it eliminates the Mexican persons' customary option simply to be returned to Mexico after apprehension)

The Chamber of Deputies of Mexico (read: House of Representatives) urged Mexico's President and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to express the energetic disapproval of the Mexican State and to reject the "No Pase" border program recently put into effect by the U.S. government because aggressions against migrants will increase.

The Chamber asked their foreign Chancery to send a diplomatic protest note to the U.S. government for this "flagrant violation of human rights."

The accord by the legislators is based on debates which state that 20 million Mexicans reside in the United States, of whom 8 million do so in California, and that their monetary remittances constitute the third item on the balance of payments.

"Nevertheless, not recognizing the need for a Mexican migration and impeding its legal entry has been a source of conflict for the United States of America, developing at the same time a series of xenophobic attitudes, rejecting the Mexican and therefore of discrimination on the part of U.S. society."

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Tamaulipas en linea (Matamoros, Tamaulipas) 3/6/08

1. A search by Mex. military at a house (no #) on Tratado de Cordoba St., Matamoros, yielded 1,936 rounds of ammo, 22 "40 cal." grenades, 1 fragmentation grenade, 5 pistols, 9 vehicles (3 of them armored) plus a varied amount of uniforms and communication equipment.

2. Five Tamaulipas "Ministerial Police" - two commanders and three "group chiefs" - were detained at dawn today by Mex. army personnel. Details have not been released. All detainees are from the Tampico, Altamira and Ciudad Madero areas.

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a.m. (Leon, Guanajuato) 3/6/08

A few weeks ago six Mexicans entered Malaysia as tourists. Now they are part of a group of thirteen people under arrest in Malaysia and charged with drug trafficking, all part of an operation which netted 250 kilos of drugs valued at almost 14 million dollars. The others are 4 Singaporeans, 1 Canadian and 2 Malays. A synthetic drug manufacturing facility was also seized; there the drugs were made "using a Mexican recipe."

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Diario 21 (Iguala, Guerrero) 3/6/08

The local police captain at San Miguel Tecuiciapan, Guerrero, was found dead on a field. A shotgun blast caused a sizeable gaping hole in his upper chest.

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El Sur (Acapulco, Guerrero) 3/6/08

Edgar Armando Calvillo Roux, director of the "Intelligence Center and Advanced Vigilance" of the Acapulco Police was out walking with his wife and children early yesterday afternoon in Acapulco. Then three vehicles came up and "strongly armed men" got out and forcibly took Calvillo with them. His family was left behind. "Strong security measures" have been taken by various law enforcement agencies on all exit points from the city.

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El Debate (Culiacan Sinaloa) 3/6/08

Two men and a 16 yr. old were "violently' kidnapped in Mazatlan last Monday. The bodies of all three were found on a dirt road in the area yesterday.

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Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 3/6/08

1. Yesterday morning two more execution murder victims were found in Palomas, Chihuahua (just across from Columbus, NM). Their hands had been bound with tape and each had multiple firearm impacts to head and thorax.

2. In Juarez, four city traffic police officers, nine jail correctional officers and three jail administrative personnel all failed a drug detection test and came up positive for cocaine. And the latest two murders in Juarez itself brought this month's total to nine.

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Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 3/6/08

Two more "safe houses" were searched by Mex. military at dawn on Tuesday in Colonia Bellavista, Juarez, and weapons, drugs, vehicles and five persons were seized and arrested.

Four of the men confessed their guilt in the murder of sixty persons within the last two years. And one of the four had been a police officer in Culiacan, Sinaloa. Of the five, one, not otherwise identified, was said to be from the U.S.

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El Financiero (Mexico City) 3/6/08

After a failed attempt to murder a Public Security commander of the state of Nuevo Leon, state and military forces conducted a massive sweep of Monterrey's northern area of San Bernabe. The result was the detention of 376 persons, most of them either drunk or in possession of drugs. One man had some ammo, two handcuffs, a ski mask and a holster.

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El Universal (Mexico City) 3/6/08

1. Felipe de Jesus Garza, an agent of the state of Durango Investigation Agency, was riddled with AK47 and AR15 gunshots as he left his house in Durango.

2. 4 smugglers, 3 of them Mexican, 92 Guatemalans and 14 Salvadorans were detained north of Tapachula, Chiapas, when state police stopped the bus in which the Central Americans were riding. The 106 illegals were on their way to Puebla & from there to the U.S.; one of the "polleros" offered 30,000 pesos to be allowed to go free.

And a report in Milenio (Mexico City) today stated that 18 "undocumented" Guatemalans and Salvadorans and their two smugglers were detained in Puebla while traveling in a northbound truck. The 18 were headed to the U.S.

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La Jornada (Mexico City) 3/6/08

Yesterday Mexico's Supreme Court resolved "criteria contradiction" between two circuit court tribunals and ruled that the crime of people trafficking is committed only when a person shelters or transports undocumented persons (read: illegal aliens) for gain but not for humanitarian reasons.

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El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 3/6/08

Seven Ecuadoreans, thirty-two Dominicans and one Haitian were turned back by a U.S. Coast Guard unit on the waters between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.

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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 3/6/08

Security, army and law enforcement officials announced Operation Cazador (Hunter) which will bring about anti-crime programs including a yet to be specified curfew at certain times and places.

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