Mexico Asks U.S. To Stop Deporting Serious Criminals

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Mexico Asks U.S. To Stop Deporting Serious Criminals

Last Updated: Mon, 09/27/2010 - 11:14am

In a flabbergasting request, 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 preposterous 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
Diego’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 Mexico’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.

If this seems unbelievable, consider that a few years ago Mexico’s
government formally complained that too many Mexicans had
been repatriated from the U.S. and that the entire country was
overwhelmed with demands for housing, jobs and schools.
Various Mexican legislators publicly chastised the U.S. for
sending illegal immigrants back, explaining that the country
could not accommodate the “repatriated.”

The Obama Administration seems to be heeding to Mexico’s
request by openly halting the deportation of hundreds of thousands
of illegal immigrants. Additionally, the administration has a “backdoor
amnesty” plan to legalize millions of undocumented aliens in case
Congress doesn’t pass legislation to do it.