Thread: Mexico: "Do as WE say, not as WE do!"

Mexico admits poor treatment of migrants

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...s/13460590.htm

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged on Wednesday that the country uses some of the same methods in dealing with illegal migrants that it has criticized the United States for employing.

The admission comes as Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez called on Latin American countries to unite against a U.S. House of Representatives bill to toughen border enforcement.

The bill, which passed on Friday with a 239-182 vote, would make illegal entry a felony, and enlist military and local police to help stop illegal entrants.

But officials of Mexico's federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged that Mexico already employs both tactics in its own territory.

"As a matter of fact, (Mexico's) population law does include prison terms for illegally entering the country ... and this is something that has been the subject of constant complaints," said Mauricio Farah, a national inspector for the rights commission.

Jose Luis Soberanes, president of the rights commission, said that Mexico also uses many government agencies, such as the police and the military, to detain undocumented migrants, even though Mexican law technically doesn't allow that.

"One of the saddest national failings on immigration issues," Soberanes told a news conference, "is the contradiction in demanding that the North (the United States) respect migrants' rights, which we are not capable of guaranteeing in the South," along Mexico's border with Guatemala.

But Soberanes slammed another provision of the U.S. immigration bill that would build 700 miles of additional fences or walls along the U.S.-Mexico border, calling it "absurd."

Let them think what they want to about us. I really doubt that Mexico can ralley all of Central America against us. If we have to build a wall because of what Fox is doing, then Bush needs to step up and do or say something to Fox, you know, something like 'If you can't keep your people out of our country, then we need to build a wall.' But will he?

I really wish the media would quit writting these stories about what officials in other countries are saying about what we are doing and how they plan to do something about it Don't these idiots know that they are wasting their time? Mr. Bush, can you please tell these guys to shut up?

let them rally. Who cares? They don't run this country and, unless we keep fighting, they are never going to.