Mexican official seeks better inroads for immigrant workers

Associated Press

Dec. 19, 2007 06:21 AM

TUCSON- A Mexican human rights official says more legal channels are needed for immigrant workers wanting to come to the United States.

Mauricio Farah Gebara, the inspector general of Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights decried the deaths of those who he said have died in motor vehicle accidents while pursued by Border Patrol agents and others who have been fatally shot by agents.

Appearing in Tucson Tuesday, Farah Gebara distributed a report released last month by the human rights commission documenting 13 years of deaths of immigrants along the California, Arizona and Texas border with Mexico.

The report shows 1,049 immigrant deaths in Arizona during the period, with 873 of them south of Tucson.

"We come to demand the hunting and persecution of migrants stops," Farah Gebara said.

"In the United States, the Declaration of Independence says that all men have been created equal (but)" but immigrants have been excluded from this right, he said.

These "immigrants" have crossed intentionally and illegally into the USA, violating federal law and the sovereignty of the nation and they have the audacity to demand anything! Americans, legally in Mexico, have few rights there - can't work, can't own property, can't protest. Illegal immigrants in Mexico have the right to be be beaten by the authorities, throw in jail without a trial or hearing - Why isn't this agency spending their resources where the real crimes are being committed?