U.N. Representative: Detentions of Illegals are Unjustified
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
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Foreign News Report

El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 3/12/08

Jorge Bustamante Fernandez, a Mexican citizen, is a representative of the United Nations in the area of migrants' human rights. He met with the Border Issues, Population and Development committees of the Mexican Senate and while there said that there is no possibility of a migratory accord between Mexico and the United States in the short or middle term. He added that a "generalized xenophobia" prevails in the United States and that these anti-immigrant attitudes have turned into round-ups and expulsions of illegal migrants, especially those of Mexican origin.
This has provoked a systematic violation of their human rights, he added "because the detentions are unjustified and violent, besides the fact that they cause the break-up of the families of the migrants who are expelled from the United States."
He asserted this situation could change after the presidential elections which will take place in that country in November according to the candidates which the Republican and Democrat parties may present.
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El Universal (Mexico City) 3/12/08

Eleven executions related to organized crime took place in the last few hours in Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Nuevo Leon and Michoacan. Four occurred in Chihuahua, where there have been over 100 so far this year; four others fell in Sinaloa after being tortured, stabbed and shot. Another two victims were found elsewhere in the state. Tijuana accounted for two.
The state of Chihuahua accounts for one out of every five executions: two of the latest were found in the southern end of the state on the road between Parral and El Vergel. The bodies "showed more than 180 impacts from AR15, AK47 and 9mm. firearms."
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 3/12/08

Mexican federal agents arrested four men and seized eight shoulder weapons , six handguns and clips of various calibers in operations in San Luis Potosi and Durango.
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La Prensa (Mexico City) (part of the O.E.M. paper chain) 3/12/08

An SUV with no plates and with tinted windows was stopped before dawn in Tijuana's eastside Otay Mesa. The driver fled and left the engine running but also left behind 5,188 rounds of ammo of various calibers, $54,100 dollars in cash and eleven different firearms. And in the area of Tecate, Baja Calif. (on the border east of Tijuana), police arrested two men from the state of Sinaloa; they had with them 7 shoulder weapons, 2 pistols and 671 rounds of ammo.
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Notiver (Veracruz, Ver.) 3/12/08

Hundreds of illegals from various Central American countries "revolted" and gathered at the railroad tracks of the "Ferrosur" railway where they informed officials that criminal gangs are assaulting, robbing, beating and even kidnapping them to demand ransom from their families. They even asked to be escorted and to have Mexican immigration officials come and repatriate them to their countries of origin.
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El Comercio (Lima, Peru) 3/12/08

Peru's Minister of Interior, Luis Alva, said that 5 tons 549 kilos of cocaine have been seized so far this year, compared to 3.6 & 2.9 tons in the same periods of "06 and '07. Peru continues to be the world's second largest cocaine producer after Colombia.
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