News From the Border

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.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Mexican officials rescue 54 at border

Feared immigrants would be victimized
By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
April 14, 2007

TIJUANA – Mexican authorities plucked a total of 54 immigrants and two suspected immigrant smugglers from the border near Tecate yesterday in what they said was a rescue effort.

“The objective was to prevent them from becoming victims of the criminals that operate in these zones,” according to a joint news release from seven state and federal agencies.

Heriberto García, coordinator for the regional office of the National Commission of Human Rights, said his office had documented cases of immigrants being attacked by bandits in this region near the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few weeks.

García said it's illegal for authorities to round up immigrants from the south side of the border because of Mexico's law of free transit. (Emphasis mine -mm) However, that right is waived in cases of safety and rescue.

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