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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

U.S. ambassador praises Mexico for extraditing more fugitives

ASSOCIATED PRESS

7:28 p.m. December 28, 2006

MEXICO CITY – U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza praised Mexico on Thursday for extraditing what he called “a record number” of fugitives to the United States in 2006, noting that Mexico sent 63 suspects north to face justice.

Extraditing fugitives to the United States remains a sensitive issue. Mexico only recently began extraditing people facing a possible life sentences and refuses to extradite those facing possible death sentences.

“This is the highest ever number of extraditions in a year from Mexico to the United States and demonstrates our countries' common commitment to bringing criminals to justice,” Garza said in a statement.

In the whole of 2005, Mexico extradited 41 suspected criminals to the United States, up from 34 in 2004, 31 in 2003, 25 in 2002, 17 in 2001, and 12 in 2000, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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