Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Why isn't it illegal to break the law?
A new man is in charge of border relations for Mexico and he has some radical ideas for change at the border with the United States. Arturo Gonzalez Cruz, a 52-year-old Tijuana businessman, says many improvements are needed at the border to benefit trade, including creating more lanes and adding border crossings. Ultimately, Cruz says flat out, he wants to see the border disappear.
So that they can more easily send us their tired, their poor, their huddled masses yearning for free medical.
Mexico has agreed to take part in a program beginning July 12 that will provide free flights home for illegal Mexican immigrants arrested in the Arizona desert, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Officials hope the program will both reduce deaths in the Southwestern desert and the attempts by illegal immigrants to enter the United States. ...Asa Hutchinson, the Homeland Security Department's undersecretary for border and transportation security, said the program would save lives "by safely returning Mexican nationals to their homes, away from the dangers of the Arizona-Sonora desert where smugglers and the harsh summer climate contribute to the deaths and injuries of illegal border crossers."
Asa, please. Think! Are the planes gonna land in the Sonora Desert and pick these people up??? These people don't die in the desert on the way back! They die in the desert [in the "care" of coyote] on the way here! On those occasions when they are caught, they are not forced to wander back across the Sonora Desert to the border. [...and that is not the origin of the phrase, "Run for the border."] So hows about you not make me pay for their plane tickets home? Howz about a nice Greyhound, at least? Bettah yet, howz about we make the Mexican government come get 'em? That might encourage some border controls on their side of the Rio Grande.
William Strassberger, Homeland Security Department spokesman, said the program's estimated cost is $12 million to $13 million, which will be paid by
the United States.you and me.
Their penalty for breaking the law of the US is that I get to pay for a "charter airplane" flight back. [do they stack people up 'til the plane is full, or it it one at at time?]
[Strassberger] said many immigrants will want to return home because of the harshness of their journey and exposure to the desert. "Many of them have spent several days crossing a desert with blast furnace temperatures, struggling to get through,"
Don't give me that "dumb brown people" bull-caca. These people have a pretty good idea what they're in for [they know what a desert is, even though they're Mexicans] and they're making the choice to come here on purpose. I doubt, given a choice, they would want to return home after having finally made it through. [it'd sure piss me off] At least not before they've accomplished their goal.
Mexico's Interior Ministry called the program "part of the humanitarian efforts by Mexico and the United States to aid and protect migrants who traverse high-risk zones, to prevent deaths and avoid abuses by migrant traffickers." The program includes "full respect for the human rights" of migrants, ...
You're so interested in "humanitarian efforts," pal, you pay for it. Otherwise you're interfering with my "humanitarian rights" not to be invaded by law-breakers, then hafta pay for it. And howz about y'all initiate some penalties for those "traffickers in humanity" right there in Mexico, eh?
The lateral repatriation program last year moved 6,000 Mexicans from Arizona to the Texas border cities. ...Mayors of the cities on the Mexican side complained that the migrants were dumped, often without money for food or a bus ticket home.
...just like they came across the border to US. Mexican mayors don't like it. I don't see them taxing the citizens of their cities to pay for these people's tickets home. But we're expected to be just fiiiiine with these people arriving in the US "without money for food or a bus ticket" to anywhere.
—Mexicans will be returned home in a safe, humane and dignified manner. Homeland Security officers will not handcuff or restrain Mexicans unless warranted in individual cases. Those charged with a crime, excluding illegal entry, are ineligible.
Cuz "illegal entry" is clearly not a crime anymore... Unless I tried to sneak into Mexico...
—The program is only available to Mexicans. —Migrants who tell immigration officials they want to be returned to Mexico will be referred to the Mexican consul. Mexico plans to increase its consul staff in Arizona. —The Mexican consul will interview the migrants and confirm they have asked to be returned to Mexico's interior. —Those who decline will be deported by way of a port of entry on the U.S.-Mexican border.
So the only possible benefit I could have derived from my [ok, our] $12 million bucks is having them taken far, far into Mexico where it will be difficult for them to return. But if they don't want to go there, we'll just drop 'em off right near the crossing where they'll give it another shot tomorrow night. And since most of these people aren't necessarily the bon vivant, high society folk from the big cities, but people from hard-scrabble mountain and desert small towns where records are hare to access and not kept as well, howindahell are the "authorities" gonna be certain that they even *are* Mexican citizens. A native speaker of Arabic can learn Spanish as easily as English... Seriously; as sorry as one can feel for some of these folks -- the honest, hard-working people just trying to get some bucks for the huge, starving family back home -- how is this situation fair? I've hired them, I've had them to dinner, I even baked a birthday cake once. The decent men are damn decent. The skeezy ones scare even the decent men -- and they're no "pussified males." It's a rough life and these are pretty tough fellas. There are some seriously hard customers and quite a few outright head cases among the illegals. But how is it right when someone trespasses against us/US that we are then supposed to pay for it? When it comes to human dignity, you gotta give as good as you want to get. signed, Tired of Being the World's Patsy . So taking all this into consideration, there must be something I am missing. Why is our government ignoring its own laws in this area? There must be a reason -- a payoff for this behavior, this choice. What *is* it??? . ADDENDUM: McCain panders to La Raza [remember? For the people, everything; for those not of the people nothing" "We must remember the horrible things those gringos have done to us!" yeah. that La Raza [aka, "The Race"]
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