Posted on 09/27/2010 11:44:02 AM PDT by La Lydia
In a flabbergasting request, a coalition of Mexican lawmakers has asked the United States to stop deporting illegal immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes in American courts. The preposterous demand was made at a recent southern California conference in which the mayors of four Mexican cities that border the U.S. gathered to discuss cross-border issues. The only American mayor who attended the biannual event was San Diego’s Jerry Sanders, evidently because his city hosted it this year at a fancy downtown hotel. Among the cross-border topics that were addressed at the conference was the deportation of Mexican citizens who have committed violent crimes in the U.S. The felons are persona non grata in their communities, say the mayors of Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nogales and Nuevo Laredo. They want U.S. officials to stem the deportation of such convicts to their cities, according to a local newspaper report that covered the conference.
To support the request, the mayor (Jose Reyes Ferriz) of Mexico’s most violent city, Ciudad Juarez, pointed out that of 80,000 people deported to his community in the past three years nearly 30,000 had committed serious crimes in the U.S. Around 7,000 had served sentences for rape and 2,000 for murder. The criminal deportees have contributed to the escalating drug-cartel violence in his city, Mayor Ferriz said, so he wants the U.S. to make other arrangements when prison sentences are completed.
If this seems unbelievable, consider that a few years ago Mexico’s government formally complained that too many Mexicans had been repatriated from the U.S. and that the entire country was overwhelmed with demands for housing, jobs and schools. Various Mexican legislators publicly chastised the U.S. for sending illegal immigrants back, explaining that the country could not accommodate the “repatriated.”
The Obama Administration seems to be heeding to Mexico’s request by openly halting the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Additionally, the administration has a “backdoor amnesty” plan to legalize millions of undocumented aliens in case Congress doesn’t pass legislation to do it.
The Onion?
John Semmons wouldn’t go this far, would he?
It’s a wonder those Mexicans can walk ...
“The preposterous demand was made at a recent southern California conference in which the mayors of four Mexican cities that border the U.S. gathered to discuss cross-border issues. “
Preposterous? Did the author happen to miss the 2008 election? Does the author have any clue who is POTUS and AG?
If a demand is honored, is it preposterous?
Yea, right! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Thanks, LL, for today’s ticket to that parallel universe we’ve all come to know.
Was there a satire key word there? I didn’t look.
It is called “an earned path to citizenship.” You serve your sentence then become a legal US resident.
Maybe we should execute them.
Dear Mexican boneheads: If you stop sending them to us, we won’t have to keep sending them back.
I miss the good old days when the US didn’t take any sh*t from Mexico. Where’s Pershing when you need him?
Hey, Mexico —
If you’d stop exporting them, then we wouldn’t be having to deport ‘em.....
Freaking unreal.....!
This is so damn ass backwards, I makes me so mad. These ‘people’ have the unmitigated gal to demand we stop deporting ‘Mexican criminals’ back to Mexico, while in the same breath they scream and holler that we don’t have the right to convict and punish ‘Mexican citizens’ in our court system.
There ya have it! Proof positive that nearly half of illegal immigrants are committing major crimes on our soil. Thanks for pointing that out, Senor Mayor.
Can we execute them then???
In other news the White House offered to give the criminals jobs in the Federal Correction system as guards.
lol. Must be satire. I guess we could shoot them. I wonder if Mexico would complain if we did that. Man I would make a horrible President. I would be giving the finger to many of these Heads of States.
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