Thread: Immigrants will benefit America, says Mexican human rights

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Mauricio Farah, a Mexican Human Rights Commission inspector, lectures Friday afternoon in the Manuel T. Pacheco Integrated Learning Center about current Mexican immigration issues.


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Border policy needs reform, speaker says
Immigrants will benefit America, says Mexican human rights inspector
Claire Conrad
Posted: 2/26/07
The U.S. and Mexico need to reform border policies to create a functional human-rights conscious border, an inspector for Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said Friday at the Manuel T. Pacheco Integrated Learning Center.

Mauricio Farah's speech, titled "Mexico-U.S. Migration: Let's Talk About Solutions," was originally scheduled for last year, but Farah left before giving the speech amid shouts from audience members demanding the lecture, which was in Spanish, be conducted in English or that interpretation be provided.

Friday's speech, which about 200 people attended, offered free simultaneous English translation. Last year's controversy spurred several members of the Tucson Police Department to staff the event.

In his speech, Farah said immigrants benefit the U.S. Immigrants pay taxes and rent, and keep industries, such as agriculture and domestic service, afloat here, Farah said. He added that immigrants are not taking jobs from U.S. workers, but, rather, are filling jobs those workers are unable to do.

Farah outlined four main topics of the National Human Rights Commission that would create a more humane border.

First, Farah said, there needs to be a reduction of the need for immigration - a responsibility that falls on both Mexico and the U.S. This would include creating jobs in Mexico and Central America that attract workers.


"There is a need for the workers in the U.S. and the need to come out of hiding with legal options."
- Mauricio Farah,
Human Rights
Commission inspector

He said there also needs to be a more open, streamlined way of attaining legal immigration to the U.S.

Next, illegal immigrants already in the U.S. need to have a clear path to legalization, he said.

"There is a need for the workers in the U.S. and the need to come out of hiding with legal options," Farah said through an interpreter.

Additionally, the taxes legal workers would pay would be enough to revitalize systems such as Social Security, Farah said.

Finally, he said there needs to be a move toward a more human rights-focused approach to border control.

The U.S. Border Patrol has been unable to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border, Farah said. More than two Mexicans per day have died attempting to cross the border over the past decade, and many groups believe the number of illegal immigrants crossing will increase over the next two decades.

Containment methods have also proved inefficient, resulting in immigrants crossing the border in more dangerous areas through the desert, he said.

Farah fielded questions from the audience, including one from a woman who demanded to know why Mexico could not take care of its own citizens.

Farah said the U.S. and Mexico are at a crossroads when it comes to border policy, and that a change is needed.

"You cannot expect different results if you are doing the same things," Farah said.


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Mexico should butt out and focus on cleaning up their own corruption - they have a long way to go before they will have any credibility on immigration and border security issues.

And any proposals they have at this point will only benefit Mexico and the few corporate elites. American citizens suffer the consequences - the high costs of providing benefits to the flood of poor Mexicans and the astronomical increase in our population which threatens our environmental quality, water supplies, wildlife. Only the very rich gain while our country is destroyed.

Here again is the Mexican guy with a job title written by George Orwell: Mexican Human Rights Commission!!

Maybe he is in charge of ensuring their human rights are violated in Mexico.

What they need to try first is getting the border closed to all threw traffic that is not inspected, or checked or given permission to enter. This is what has not been tried, nobody will ever convince me we, this great nation does not have the ability to close our damn borders.

WE NEED TO STOP YOU ILLEGAL ASSES FROM COMMING IN ILLEGALY.PERIOD.