Thread: Protestors breech border at Gateway

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Protestors breech border at Gateway
Demonstration spills onto U.S. territory

MATAMOROS, November 5, 2006 — Protestors gathered at the Gateway International Bridge Saturday crossed the international boundary into U.S. territory as federal agents and police tried to push them back to the Mexican side of the overpass.

Spanish-language news service Notimex reported Saturday that about 100 protestors gathered at the bridge to call for the end of unrest in Oaxaca. The group protested in support of the Oaxacan People’s Popular Assembly, or APPO, a movement organized against Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz.

They demanded an end to the conflict in the once-picturesque Mexican City where unrest and chaos has reigned since the people and Mexican Congress called for a defiant Ruiz’s resignation.

They also rallied against construction of a border fence between the United States and Mexico. The fence, that would stretch some 700 miles from Brownsville to Laredo, was recently approved by Congress, with initial funds of more than $1 billion committed to the project.

According to the Notimex report, the crowd of protestors, led by Marta Ojeda, with the Coalition for Justice in Maquiladoras, met at the foot of the bridge and unexpectedly penetrated traffic and crossed to the U.S. side.

“We crossed and protested ‘over there’,” Ojeda told Notimex reporters. “Because as maquiladora industry workers, we are migrants and we are bothered by the construction of this barrier that we consider a criminal act.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounded up the demonstrators that traveled some 50 feet across the border and generally kept order, according to the report. No other disturbances or injuries were reported.

call for the end of unrest in Oaxaca

OK.......let me get this straight

The unrest is in OAXACA in MEXICO
but
the protesters are going in the opposite direction

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They had to make it clear they aren't happy with the fence idea either. Obviously Mexico citizens are frustrated at home and with us.
Man, I wish Mexico could get their act together and quit depending on us.