Posted on 06/14/2007 7:30:43 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
TIJUANA, Mexico — Mexican border cities are struggling with an influx of migrants deported by the U.S. government, which has been kicking out illegal migrants at record levels, migrant relief groups say.
Many of those deported have spent decades working at restaurants, offices and in the fields from California to North Carolina.
Some return to Mexico virtually penniless after spending their savings on lawyers fees to fight their deportation orders and wind up living on the tough, crime-ridden streets of border cities like Tijuana, where they must fend off corrupt police, gangs and thieves, migrant groups say.
They survive by washing car windows or doing other odd jobs or by simply begging, and many sleep on a river levee in Tijuana, where humanitarian volunteers bring them food and water.
Deportations have jumped fourfold since 1996, when a new law ordered the immediate expulsion of migrants who return after being deported. Deportations increased further after the U.S. government created the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has a unit focused on deporting illegal migrants who have been in the country for years.
ICE says the U.S. government has returned more than 1 million illegal migrants each year to the Mexican border.
ICE officials say they try to delay deportations for weeks if migrants have U.S.-born children so they can arrange for child care.
In 2004, U.S. officials tried to break migrants' ties with smugglers, whose fees often include several attempts to cross, by putting them across the border far from where they were caught.
The program, however, outraged Texans who said it brought more illegal immigrants from Arizona into their state, and the Mexican government complained migrants were stranded in unfamiliar areas.
Last year, U.S. officials budgeted $14.2 million for a pilot program that flew as many as 33,900 Mexican migrants to Mexico's heartland rather than leaving them at the border.
No they don’t—they abandon their homes when they came to the U.S. Consequences.
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Sounds like the Mexican government better get to work. Oh, on second thought, it sounds just like the Mexican government at work. They won’t do squat for those folks. I’m still not soft-hearted (headed) to want to take them back though. Mexico is a big rich country, with enough resources to employ all its people - if only the plutocrats who run the show wanted it that way. Fat chance.
I’m trying hard, but I really don’t give a sh*t.
So what? They chose to leave their homes in mexico.
sorry Mexico... its not our problem. deal with it
“ICE says the U.S. government has returned more than 1 million illegal migrants each year to the Mexican border.”
Just a show for now.
ONce the bill paases, or fails, Bush will turn off the enforcement.
Starting last year, he started some enforcment to “prove” he can be trusted, and in return for his mass legalization. Ironically it shows enforcement alone does work.
Now if we can get up to 2 million a year and put up the border fence, it will be no time at all solving the problem. No new laws required.
“ICE says the U.S. government has returned more than 1 million illegal migrants each year to the Mexican border.”
What year?
that number is bull, but it is more than 60,000. That might just be through courts
Screw ‘em. America isn’t Mexico’s dumping ground
why don’t they head down to some of those fancy resorts down there and find work.
>> the Mexican government complained migrants were stranded in unfamiliar areas.
...then let the corrupt Mexican government come ‘n get em! Take ‘em down to Mexico City (or further south). Or “re-deport” ‘em back to Central America!
I’m totally fed up with the open sewer of graft and corruption that is Mexico.
¿Quién sabe?
Precisely. A sympathy piece. See how cruel those American racists and bigots can be. Tears by me out the heart.
I can’t keep up with the changing figures, help me out here. Our aggressive heartless Gumn’t is throwing ‘em back maybe faster than they are coming in! I knew it all the time the whole thing is a hoax. OK, since 1996 deportations have increased fourfold to the tune of a million a year, WOW! So simply put, 11 years and 11 milion equals zero. See problem solved! WOW!
It's like they're saying that unless the Mexicans get in illegally
then they can't be here at all. Bull!
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