Mexico's Border Crossing Tips Anger Some in U.S. (Guide on how to become ILLEGAL ALIENS in USA)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 01/03/2005 | Solomon Moore

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Mexican authorities are distributing more than 1 million copies of an illustrated handbook that gives migrants illegally crossing the U.S. border safety tips, suggesting that they carry enough water, follow railroad tracks and utility lines if they get lost and wear clothing that will protect them from the elements.

The new handbooks, the latest effort by the Mexican government to educate people about the dangers of unsanctioned crossings, has angered some anti-immigrant groups that say parts of it read like a how-to manual.

"It's an encouragement that will lead to more illegal aliens coming," said Rick Oltman, a spokesman for the Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform. "It is going to result in more tragic deaths as people risk their lives in swollen rivers and burning deserts."

But Mexican officials said the 32-page booklet was designed to reduce deaths along the border by informing those who have already decided to cross on how to avoid serious injury and death.

The Mexican government has produced similar booklets before. But officials said they consider this edition, which is being distributed at government offices and inside magazines across Mexico, to be especially important given the rising number of border deaths. About 400 immigrants died along the border in 2003 — a 10% increase from 2002.

Officials in Mexico and the United States say beefed-up Border Patrol activities have prompted people to take riskier routes through deserts and over mountains to avoid detection.

"The idea is to reduce the number of people who die in the attempt," said Alfonso Nieto, spokesman for the Mexican embassy in Washington, D.C. "The main objective of the guide is to inform Mexicans the appropriate way to do it, and the risks of doing otherwise."

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Story about this on FOX News; airing now.

[JustAnotherSavage]

Hayworth: Omission of Vital Border Security Provisions In Intel Reform 'Scandalous, Unacceptable'

WASHINGTON- U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth of Arizona will vote against the intelligence reform bill intended to implement recommendations of the 9-11 Commission when the measure comes before the House for final approval later today.

In announcing his intention to oppose the bill, Rep. Hayworth issued the following statement:

"I asked supporters of this bill to explain why, in view of haunting evidence that America's porous border security system enabled 19 murderous Islamofascists to move around the country and get in position to kill nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11, were provisions stripped out of the final version of the intelligence reform bill that were specifically written to prevent that from happening again?

"The only response was that those concerns could be addressed next year.

"The potentially deadly absence of vital border security provisions in the intel reform legislation is scandalous and unacceptable and it is why I could not in good conscience support the bill."

http://hayworth.house.gov/

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Hang 'em High!

[Recall]

We need a comic book called:

How To Go Home

I read that part of what our immigration people have to do in order to deport individuals is have a country willing to take them. This makes me wonder if the Fox government is refusing to take thier immigrants back. And, if passenger jets were to land in Mexico City filled with illegals from the US would they refuse to let them stay. Can they "force" us to keep them? And, if they refused to keep them would that give illegals some kind of "refugee" status???

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The Mexican elites are at least a little more clever than that --- they just raised minimum wage to the equivalent of $4.15 an hour --- it's been the equivalent of more than that in the past --- they can let the planes land --- but with the farms dried up (less of Mexico is irrigated today than in the past), extreme low pay, poor conditions, no hope for the majority, they know that most will just head back up. In fact they want them to return every now and them, the government officials rob them on their return -- confiscate the televisions and DVD's, or charge them huge fees --- imagine paying a $30-40 tax on a television you paid $60 to bring it in? Yet that's what happens over there when the illegals go back for a visit.