Thread: Mexico frets about California plan to free inmates

Mexico frets about California plan to free inmates
August 21, 2009 - 11:52pm

MEXICALI, Mexico (AP) - Mexican authorities have been sending more alleged criminals north to the U.S. for trial since President Felipe Calderon took office. Now a Mexican official is worried about a flow in the other direction.

Rommel Moreno, attorney general of Baja California state, expressed concern Friday about a plan in California to release thousands of inmates from that U.S. state's overcrowded prisons as a way to help relieve a budget crunch.

Although details of the proposal are still being debated in the California legislature, Moreno noted many inmates in the California prison system are undocumented migrants, and some could be deported once released.

"We have to take care of this issue. We know that there are plans to carry out these procedures in the United States, and one of the most affected states would be Baja California," he said.

A statement issued by his office said that "the repatriation of ex-convicts should be orderly and in full agreement with the Mexican government, in order to avoid a rise in crime, mainly in the border states."

"Border cities like Tijuana and Mexicali have enough problems as it with migration, so they can't suffer unilateral repatriations of people who have served a sentence in the United States," the statement said.

Guillermo Diaz Orozco, the leader of the business association of downtown Tijuana, voiced similar worries.

"The three levels of government have to plan what we are going to do with all these criminals they are going to 'export,'" Diaz Orozco said. "Many of them are going to be deported to Mexico, just because they declare themselves to be Mexicans."

Tijuana has suffered a wave of violent crime, and state prosecutors reported Friday that two men were shot to death at a pool hall late Thursday.

Elsewhere in Mexico, police arrested a man wanted in the United States for methamphetamine dealing, the federal attorney general's office said. It said Luis Carlos Sanchez Luna was grabbed as he left his home in a suburb of the northern city of Monterrey.

Sanchez Luna is on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's wanted list for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Houston. Authorities said Sanchez will face extradition, and noted he is the last of a band of three fugitives caught in Mexico.




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A statement issued by his office said that "the repatriation of ex-convicts should be orderly and in full agreement with the Mexican government, in order to avoid a rise in crime, mainly in the border states."

I see so these Mexicans should be free to go north if they want to completely without any consideration of the wishes of the American people. But if they go south it should only be according to the wishes of the Mexican people. They never tire of wanting to have it both ways.

Although details of the proposal are still being debated in the California legislature, Moreno noted many inmates in the California prison system are undocumented migrants, and some could be deported once released.

What do they mean SOME could be deported. ALL should be deported. And the gall of these Mexicans. I would think they would be proud to have members of their raza returning home. After all, they are your gente, members of your superior race coming home to help build your economy. I say welcome them home with a big fiesta complete with mariachi music and all the trimmings.

Deport All Illegal Immigrants - don't pick and choose.

If the criminals came from Mexico they must be returned to Mexico.

Getting a taste of their own medicene.

Libya loves criminals. Airdrop them there.

Love it, LVL! And from what I hear, the Soviet gulags are pretty empty these days, so we could probably rent them for cheap.

A statement issued by his office said that "the repatriation of ex-convicts should be orderly and in full agreement with the Mexican government, in order to avoid a rise in crime, mainly in the border states."

What?! Do you mean to tell me that Mexico has to agree to take back its criminals? Who in hell ecouraged illegal aliens to come to Amercia? The Mexician government, thats who! Mexico even published coloring books on how to get here and how to dodge the law in order to live here. And America's crime rates went up as a result of criminal Mexicans. Take yor people back Mexico because they are your responsibility, not ours.