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| Mexico Asks U.S. To Stop Deporting Serious Criminals |
| 2010-09-27 |
| 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 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 DiegoÂ’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 MexicoÂ’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. Alternatively, Mexico could reenact the death penalty, and start hanging bad boys to who laid the chunk. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #8 My solution. Without the net, of course... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-09-27 21:04 |
| #7 It sounds like we are dumping the deportees in the border towns and this is what they are objecting to. I agree with the mayors that we should not do this. deportees should be sent by C-130 to Mexico City. Or perhaps Cancun. Let's dump the trash as far from here as possible. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-09-27 20:51 |
| #6 "Mexico Asks U.S. To Stop Deporting Serious Criminals" Well, quit sending your "serious criminals" north and we won't have to send them back. Of course, I'd prefer to send them back airmail. From 30,000 feet. But maybe that's just me.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-09-27 20:41 |
| #5 Yeah, 28,000 dead just from drug related violence, since Dec. 2006. What's to exaggerate? |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-09-27 19:12 |
| #4 The Mayor of Tijuana had a speech in our local San Diego rag the other day, saying Americans were exaggerating the violence in Mexico for economic(?) reasons - I guess so tourists stay home or at local hotels...whatever. Apparently he doesn't read Bad's More Mexican Mayhem dailies |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-09-27 19:02 |
| #3 So let me get this straight. Mexico "demands" that the US not return Mexican citizens to Mexico who have committed crimes in the US while residing here illegally to begin with? Mexico has a lot of gall. If I had been the mayor of San Diego, I would have squirted my martini out of my nose with laughter when that was said. Hey, Mexico, stop exporting your violent criminals to the US instead of whining about us sending them back. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-09-27 18:47 |
| #2 Or we could just execute them ourselves, if they don't want them. Not sure why this is our problem. |
| Posted by: bill 2010-09-27 18:41 |
| #1 How about we deport them from the back of a C-130 over Mexican territory from 10,000ft? Good compromise? Otherwise shut your fucking oxygen wasters. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-09-27 18:40 |