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Mexico: Securing Border Violates Human Rights
Judicial Watch ^ | June 26, 2013

Posted on 06/26/2013 9:47:03 AM PDT by jazusamo

The U.S. proposal to secure the southern border has caused outrage in Mexico, with one renowned Mexican academic claiming in Spanish-language media that deploying more federal agents to the region is tantamount to an increase in “human rights violations.”

Under the immigration reform bill floating around in the U.S. Senate the number of Border Patrol agents will double along the southern border and the amount of drones guarding from above will triple. The measure will also provide funding to complete 700 miles of fencing in the area and around-the-clock surveillance flights by drones.

This has ignited fury in Mexico where officials flooded Spanish-language media to express outrage this week and now some of it is getting picked up by news outlets north of the border. Mexico’s former foreign minister, Jorge Castañeda, says doubling the number of agents along the border is an “unfriendly act” and a “very negative reform for Mexico and the United States.”

Some have taken it further, asserting in a mainstream American newspaper story that the surge plan is an affront to Mexico that should be forcefully opposed by President Enrique Peña Nieto. One Mexican congressman (Fernando Belaunzaran) said “we are ‘friends and neighbors,’ as is repeated ad nauseam, but the U.S. is about to militarize the border with Mexico as if we were at war.”

A respected Mexican columnist and academic, Lorenzo Meyer, took to the airwaves suggesting that Mexico retaliate by booting U.S. intelligence and defense officials in the country collaborating in the never-ending battle against drug cartels. The same highly regarded Mexican figurehead also suggested Mexico could strike back by rejecting more American retirees. The head of a Mexico-based organization called Aztlan Binational Migrants Movement, said an increase in Border Patrol agents will put lives at risk because migrants will be forced to find more dangerous and remote crossings.

The fact remains, however, that the southern border has long been dangerously porous and it’s not just humble migrants seeking work and a better life that exploit this national security weakness. A number of reports have surfaced over the years documenting how serious criminal elements, including drug cartels and Middle Eastern terrorists, regularly use the Southwest border to enter the United States.

A few years ago an investigative committee of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disclosed that the Mexican border region is infested with violent crimes carried out by organized syndicates that smuggle drugs, humans, weapons and money across the U.S.-Mexico border on a daily basis. Even more alarming, the assessment revealed that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation found that members of Hezbollah and other deadly Middle Eastern terrorist groups have entered the U.S. through the Mexican border.

As if this weren’t reason enough to secure the border, other probes have revealed similar problems. In 2007 Texas’s top Homeland Security official, Steve McCraw, confirmed that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida had been arrested crossing into the state through Mexico. That news came on the heels of a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) report that laid out how Islamic terrorists and violent Mexican drug gangs have teamed up to successfully penetrate the U.S. as well as finance terror networks in the Middle East.

The problem has only worsened over the years, according to the government’s own assessments. In 2010 DHS warned Texas law enforcement agencies that a renowned Al Qaeda terrorist was planning to sneak into the U.S. through Mexico. In the alert DHS warn Houston authorities to be on the lookout for a member of a Somalia-based Al Qaeda group called Al Shabab who was planning to cross the Mexican border.

That same year a veteran federal agent accused the government of covering up the growing threat created by Middle Eastern terrorists entering the country through the porous Mexican border. The agent, who spent 30 years in the federal immigration system, revealed that the U.S. Border Patrol had captured thousands of people classified as OTM (Other Than Mexican) along the 2,000-mile southern border and many were from terrorist nations like Yemen, Iran, Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan. The feds call them SIAs (Special Interest Aliens) and the government doesn’t want Americans to know about them.

- See more at: http://www.judicialwatch.org./blog/2013/06/mexico-securing-border-violates-human-rights/#sthash.lkv1tLaf.dpuf


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordersecurity; illegals; immigration
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Mexico have friends in Obama and Napolitano who aren't interested in securing the border.
1 posted on 06/26/2013 9:47:03 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

What about Mexico’s southern border? I understand it’s very secure.


2 posted on 06/26/2013 9:48:07 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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So this means that we can walk down there and take what we please...just as your people are doing....?

Good, we’re gonna have to go to war with you anyway.


3 posted on 06/26/2013 9:48:15 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: jazusamo

Human traffickers preaching to us about human rights.

Meh.


4 posted on 06/26/2013 9:48:57 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic!)
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5 posted on 06/26/2013 9:49:17 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: jazusamo

What about MY civil rights?! The rights I have as an American/U.S.A. citizen? Mexicans have NO rights here, except basic ones. They do NOT have a right to my country!


6 posted on 06/26/2013 9:50:06 AM PDT by madison10
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To: FrdmLvr

Yep, if we adopted the same immigration laws that Mexico has they’d be having fits.


7 posted on 06/26/2013 9:50:25 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: jazusamo

I’m sure their southern border is wide open too.


8 posted on 06/26/2013 9:50:28 AM PDT by onedoug
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so - open borders has been the goal all along on both sides of the border.

Is Mexico declaring war on the over the secure border language??

I think they have been invading the US for years, now we understand fully.


9 posted on 06/26/2013 9:50:52 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Remember the Marine who legally brought a shotgun into Mexico and was wrongfully imprisoned? Would these butt-weasels call that a violation of human rights?
10 posted on 06/26/2013 9:51:08 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: jazusamo

so - open borders has been the goal all along on both sides of the border.

Is Mexico declaring war on the over the secure border language??

I think they have been invading the US for years, now we understand fully.


11 posted on 06/26/2013 9:51:09 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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In case no one noticed, we’re not securing it. We’re leaving gaping big holes in it for their drug cartels to get through. But they know this, and their whining is only for show.


12 posted on 06/26/2013 9:52:35 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: jazusamo

What is Mexico’s southern border security like? Hum.....


13 posted on 06/26/2013 9:52:44 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: FrdmLvr

Typical do as we say not as we do, I guess Demoncrats are everywhere!


14 posted on 06/26/2013 9:53:12 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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One thing everyone can agree, American, Mexican, Democrat, Republican, Conservative...

MEXICO SUCKS !!!!

15 posted on 06/26/2013 9:54:16 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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16 posted on 06/26/2013 9:54:29 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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Who will support the idea that stealing from me to support people who move here to get every thing FREE violates MY human rights?


17 posted on 06/26/2013 9:56:40 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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i say we secure our border like mexico does their southern border, i say we use the same laws mexico has for treating forigners and illegals in their country.


18 posted on 06/26/2013 9:56:59 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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"If you don' let me just come into your country and walk into your home and
take what I want, including your pretty daughter and pretty wife, then you
are guilty of violatin' my Human Rights and I will report you to Eric Holder."


19 posted on 06/26/2013 9:58:35 AM PDT by Iron Munro (From nobody to senator, to Conservative savior,)
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To: FrdmLvr

But they want to make sure that any aliens that do make it past their southern border are able to continue north to the US and do not stay in Mexico.


20 posted on 06/26/2013 10:01:47 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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