Mexico Vows to Fight Migrant Patrol Project in U.S.

[Mac Seafraidh]

Mexico Vows to Fight Migrant Patrol Project in U.S.



Mon Feb 28, 2005 09:21 PM ET
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will pursue legal action against plans by a U.S. citizens' group to patrol the U.S.-Mexican border in search of illegal immigrants, the country's foreign minister said on Monday.



Luis Ernesto Derbez said he asked lawyers in Los Angeles to draw up a legal strategy to fight the Arizona-based initiative called "the MinuteMan Project" that has signed up hundreds of volunteers for border patrols.

"We are going to attack by all legal means," Derbez told a news conference. "We are presenting the reasons why we consider this action to be incorrect and illegal from the point of view not only of our government but also under U.S. law."

Derbez said he would discuss the issue with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when she visits Mexico on March 10.

Organizers of the MinuteMan project say the U.S. government has failed to stem the flow of migrants across its 2,000-mile southern border, where about a million undocumented immigrants are caught each year, almost half coming through Arizona.

More than a million are thought to get through undetected.

Volunteers from at least 29 states plan to camp out in April on ranches and public land to spot and report illegal immigrants to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The undocumented migrants often risk death from heat exposure or at the hands of people smugglers in their journeys to seek work across the border. Migration is a prickly issue for Mexico, where the government is growing skeptical President Bush will be able to deliver on his promise of a new migration accord to enable legal, safe and orderly migration.

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[Dr. Solar Wolff]

This is where I differ with the Minute Men. I favor illegal migrants, just as long as they are crossing our borders illegally and come from the Near East. Hell, I see illegal aliens on a daily basis, so does every law enforcement person. But the only ones they care about are the ones from the Near East, Arab looking. If an illegal Arab looking person were to ever approach me, I would direct them to a bus stop and tell them how to say "New York City" in English. I know he will not attack me and I have nothing at all to fear from him. He is after Jews and targets of Jewish interest. Until the Jews understand that we want something out of stopping illegal immigration, (closed borders barring Mexicans), I say welcome Arabs just as they welcome Mexicans.

[Nordic Dream Maiden]

If these volunteer patrols are going to call the border patrol to apprehend, I think most might get away; I would suggest somebody to look up some laws on the "apprehension" issue for these volunteers as lawyers aren't going to say, "yes, pg so and so, article and sect so and so say you can do this in Texas, and then "laws" are always interpreted on whats for the Jews anyway, so that might not work either.