Mexico wants migrant rights in U.S., but is harsh to undocumented Central Americans

Mexico wants migrant rights in U.S., but is harsh to undocumented Central Americans




By Mark Stevenson
ASSOCIATED PRESS

10:04 a.m. April 18, 2006




By Mark Stevenson
ASSOCIATED PRESS

10:04 a.m. April 18, 2006

Associated Press
While Mexican immigrants demonstrate across the U.S. for better treatment of undocumented migrants, Mexico's own illegal population — hundreds of thousands of Central Americans — face robberies, assaults and extortion.
TULTITLAN, Mexico – While migrants in the United States have held tremendous demonstrations in recent weeks, the hundreds of thousands of undocumented Central American migrants in Mexico suffer mostly in silence.

Considered felons by the Mexican government, they fear detention, rape and robbery. Police and soldiers hunt them down at railroads, bus stations and fleabag hotels. Sometimes they are deported; more often officers simply take all their money.

While Mexico demands the humane treatment of its citizens who migrate to the U.S., it appears to be unable to guarantee similar rights for Central American migrants to this country.

The level of brutality Central American migrants face in Mexico was underscored on Monday, when police conducting a raid for undocumented migrants near a rail yard in central Mexico state shot to death a local man, apparently because his dark skin and work clothes made him look like a Central American.

Virginia Sanchez, a housewife who lives near the railroad tracks that carry Central Americans north to the U.S. border, say shootings like the one Monday in her town of Tultitlan are not infrequent.

“In the night, you hear the gunshots, and it's the judiciales (state police) chasing the migrants,” Sanchez said. “It's not fair to kill these people. It's not fair in the United States and it's not fair here.”

“In the night, you hear the gunshots, and it's the judiciales (state police) chasing the migrants,” Sanchez said. “It's not fair to kill these people. It's not fair in the United States and it's not fair here.”

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While this just shows the 'hypocrisy of the Mexican government' it is after all their country and neither Mexico, the US, or any other nation for that matter is under any obligation to take in 'illegal invaders' from other nations. We have these things called 'borders' and they 'aren't a new invention', borders have been around for eons. You stay on your side of the border and I'll stay on mine. You have a cesspit of a country and you want to leave it. Might I suggest that you fix your country rather then turn my country into what you are fleeing.