Posted on 02/09/2007 5:51:18 PM PST by VU4G10
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico wants a full investigation by U.S. authorities on Friday into a shooting on the U.S. border that left three illegal migrants dead and two injured.
Mexico's Foreign Ministry said it had told the Mexican consulate in Tucson, Arizona, to ask local U.S. authorities to probe the attack by unknown gunmen, which took place on a back road often used by migrant traffickers.
The ministry requested "an exhaustive investigation" into the incident, it said in a statement.
Armed men stopped a bus full of people on the remote desert track near Tucson and began shooting at it, the ministry said. Police say the gunmen may have been bandits.
The nationality of the three dead men is still unknown, although the consulate in Tucson has identified the two injured as a Guatemalan woman and a Mexican man.
U.S. police officers found two of the dead bodies in a pickup truck in the desert some 20 miles from Tucson on Thursday, and the body of a third man on a roadside nearby.
U.S.-Mexico relations over their 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border have been tense since gangs of U.S. vigilantes who call themselves Minutemen began staking out the border area in 2005 to hunt for illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants.
More than 1 million undocumented immigrants trek over the U.S. border from Mexico each year to search for work in a journey fraught with danger.
Last year more than 400 people died making the trip. Most of the fatalities were due to dehydration, drowning or vehicle rollovers, although attacks, rapes and robberies are common in the borderlands.
"gangs of U.S. vigilantes who call themselves Minutemen began staking out the border area in 2005 to "hunt" for illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants"
HUH?? say what?
"since gangs of U.S. vigilantes who call themselves Minutemen"
Reuters doesn't bother with hiding their stalinism anymore.
Fook them! We should have declared war on that damn country years ago! (and kicked their butts!)
So now the Mexican government is maintaining that coyotes don't PO their competitors? And I thought only our Democrats lived in a fantasy world.
NO PROBLEM. It was Other Mexicans, Rival smugglers
I'm sure the WH will get right on it . Probably jail the entire border patrol unit this time. It's a head fake. They see the last conviction of the 2 patrolmen blowing up in the governments face. So Mexico needs to save face....
YAHOO NEWS
Full Coverage: Immigration
Off the Wires
Three illegal immigrants shot dead crossing US border: police AFP
Ku Klux Klan reportedly on the rise Reuters,
Maybe a bright lawyer out there could look into that.
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Shape a New Economy, The New York Times
gangs of U.S. vigilantes who call themselves Minutemen began ***
Reuters has tried and convicted the minutemen.
Tell the Mexicans to keep their illegals on their side and no harm will come to them from This side.
"I wonder if there is a way to file a class action lawsuit against illegal aliens?"
Doubtful, but a RICO suit against the big employers is a possibility.
Illegal alien = Drug Mule from mexican government(Drug cartels)
I know that if I'm ever injured by an illegal, the company he works for will be my target. After all, the illegal wouldn't be here to injure me without a means of support.
Well that would put a new wheel on the wagon.
"Vigilantes" are what happens when government abdicates its responsiility to protect the citizenry - or defend the borders.
What was done is wrong, but understandable.
Well there could be a message here. If you don't want to die,stay in your own country or come here legally !!!
Again? Heck Texas alone kicked their butts!
Could be Mexican bandits, preying on Mexicans, like they do in Mexico all the time.
Reuters... British? Maybe they are still taught how Minutemen "vigilantes" set the British regulars running like hell on April 19, 1775.
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