A nice "unbiased" article via the AP.
"When the state can not or will not defend it's citizens, then the citizens will do it themselves" (paraphrased) California Vigilante 1850.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/051800/mexico_migrants.sml
Vigilante Violence in Border Areas
Main Topic of Mexico-U.S. Meeting
Updated 8:19 p.m. ET (0019 GMT) May 18, 2000
Vigilante ranchers in Arizona have been hunting down and even shooting at illegal Mexican immigrants who cross the border onto their property, the Mexican government complained to the United States Thursday.
The issue — which has aroused passions south of the border and may lead to a lawsuit by Mexico against the ranchers — dominated Thursday's bilateral meeting between U.S. and Mexican officials in Washington.
In recent weeks, Mexico has accused ranchers living in the border area near Douglas, Ariz., of hunting Mexicans in a vigilante campaign to make citizens' arrests of immigrants who trespass on their land. In the last year, two migrants have been killed in that area and seven others wounded, according to Mexico.
Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green said her country would do everything it could to ensure that violations of the rights of Mexican migrants are investigated and punished. Green had said late Tuesday that the law firm Zuckerman and Associates had been contracted to put together a case against the ranchers.
Ranchers Claim Damage to Property
Ranchers say their immigrant roundups are in response to the lack of action by the U.S. Border Patrol and accuse the illegal immigrants of damaging their property, leaving garbage in their trail and of defecating on their land.
Over the weekend, a group calling itself the Concerned Citizens of Cochise County, Ariz., and the California-based American Patrol, a citizens' group that also seeks to stop illegal immigration, announced plans for a "Shadow Border Patrol" that would "keep track" of the U.S. Border Patrol's actions.
Roger Barnett, a Cochise rancher who has participated in illegal immigrant roundups, said there were no other options. "It's just out of control," he said in an interview.
"The U.S. government is not protecting its citizens."
Doris Meissner, commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), told reporters outside the commission meeting that the ranchers had legitimate concerns.
"A senior person from the Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office is here at this meeting. We will discuss this today to see if any law was broken in that case. If there was a law broken, we will do whatever we can to ensure that there is the proper action taken in the county," Meissner added.
Mexico Calling on the U.N.
Around 9 million Mexicans, often looking for a better life and better-paid jobs, live in the United States. Many of them do not have resident permits and enter illegally through the desert and inhospitable mountain ranges that lie along the 2,100-mile border.
Green told The News of Mexico City there had been 32 vigilante incidents since January 1994, 27 of them in Arizona, 15 allegedly involving one family of ranchers near Douglas.
Fair treatment of its citizens has long been a demand of Mexico City, while critics north of the border argue Mexico alone must carry the blame for the fact that hundreds of its citizens try to sneak across the frontier every day in search of jobs and livelihoods.
Illegal immigrant abuses are extremely hard to prosecute because in most cases the only witnesses are the undocumented aliens themselves, who are usually unwilling to testify in court because of their illegal status in the United States.
The Mexican foreign minister said a United Nations special envoy for immigration issues would visit the U.S.-Mexico border to look into the accusations that the ranchers were abusing and mistreating Mexicans crossing the border illegally.
— Adrienne Bard in Mexico and Reuters contributed to this report
© Associated Press.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
"When the state can not or will not defend it's citizens, then the citizens will do it themselves" (paraphrased) California Vigilante 1850.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/051800/mexico_migrants.sml
Vigilante Violence in Border Areas
Main Topic of Mexico-U.S. Meeting
Updated 8:19 p.m. ET (0019 GMT) May 18, 2000
Vigilante ranchers in Arizona have been hunting down and even shooting at illegal Mexican immigrants who cross the border onto their property, the Mexican government complained to the United States Thursday.
The issue — which has aroused passions south of the border and may lead to a lawsuit by Mexico against the ranchers — dominated Thursday's bilateral meeting between U.S. and Mexican officials in Washington.
In recent weeks, Mexico has accused ranchers living in the border area near Douglas, Ariz., of hunting Mexicans in a vigilante campaign to make citizens' arrests of immigrants who trespass on their land. In the last year, two migrants have been killed in that area and seven others wounded, according to Mexico.
Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green said her country would do everything it could to ensure that violations of the rights of Mexican migrants are investigated and punished. Green had said late Tuesday that the law firm Zuckerman and Associates had been contracted to put together a case against the ranchers.
Ranchers Claim Damage to Property
Ranchers say their immigrant roundups are in response to the lack of action by the U.S. Border Patrol and accuse the illegal immigrants of damaging their property, leaving garbage in their trail and of defecating on their land.
Over the weekend, a group calling itself the Concerned Citizens of Cochise County, Ariz., and the California-based American Patrol, a citizens' group that also seeks to stop illegal immigration, announced plans for a "Shadow Border Patrol" that would "keep track" of the U.S. Border Patrol's actions.
Roger Barnett, a Cochise rancher who has participated in illegal immigrant roundups, said there were no other options. "It's just out of control," he said in an interview.
"The U.S. government is not protecting its citizens."
Doris Meissner, commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), told reporters outside the commission meeting that the ranchers had legitimate concerns.
"A senior person from the Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office is here at this meeting. We will discuss this today to see if any law was broken in that case. If there was a law broken, we will do whatever we can to ensure that there is the proper action taken in the county," Meissner added.
Mexico Calling on the U.N.
Around 9 million Mexicans, often looking for a better life and better-paid jobs, live in the United States. Many of them do not have resident permits and enter illegally through the desert and inhospitable mountain ranges that lie along the 2,100-mile border.
Green told The News of Mexico City there had been 32 vigilante incidents since January 1994, 27 of them in Arizona, 15 allegedly involving one family of ranchers near Douglas.
Fair treatment of its citizens has long been a demand of Mexico City, while critics north of the border argue Mexico alone must carry the blame for the fact that hundreds of its citizens try to sneak across the frontier every day in search of jobs and livelihoods.
Illegal immigrant abuses are extremely hard to prosecute because in most cases the only witnesses are the undocumented aliens themselves, who are usually unwilling to testify in court because of their illegal status in the United States.
The Mexican foreign minister said a United Nations special envoy for immigration issues would visit the U.S.-Mexico border to look into the accusations that the ranchers were abusing and mistreating Mexicans crossing the border illegally.
— Adrienne Bard in Mexico and Reuters contributed to this report
© Associated Press.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
