Mexicans slam Arizona immigration law, but how do they treat their migrants?

[celeb_2006]

Mexicans slam Arizona immigration law, but how do they treat their migrants? - Yahoo! News

Mexico City – As Mexicans decry the Arizona immigration law and launch boycotts of Arizona, Amnesty International released a scathing new report urging Mexicans to look in the mirror.

“Invisible Victims: Migrants on the Move in Mexico” details the abuse faced by Central American migrants, who cross the southern border between Guatemala and Mexico, usually en route to the US.
Each year, tens of thousands of migrants make the trip.

Many lose limbs from accidents on trains they board to head northward. Women and girls report sexual violence. And - far worse than asking suspected illegal immigrants about their US immigration status, as the new Arizona law will require police to do - many Central American migrants to Mexico accuse Mexican officials of demanding bribes or flat-out stealing their cash.

"Migrants in Mexico are facing a major human rights crisis leaving them with virtually no access to justice, fearing reprisals and deportation if they complain of abuses," Rupert Knox, Mexico Researcher at Amnesty International, said. "Persistent failure by the authorities to tackle abuses carried out against irregular migrants has made their journey through Mexico one of the most dangerous in the world."

Lately, as drug violence has soared, migrants have also been increasingly the victims of kidnapping.
Drawing on numbers from Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), Amnesty International says some 10,000 migrants were abducted over six months in 2009 – a record number. Almost half of those interviewed said that public officials were involved in their abductions.

Mexico promises to address the matterAs Mexican officials respond to the new immigration law in Arizona – the Mexican government has issued a “travel alert” for Mexicans living, working, and studying in Arizona – it also recognized the Amnesty International Report Wednesday and promised to address the situation.

In a statement released by the Secretary of Government, Mexico said it “shares the worry and recognizes the complexity and urgency to address the crime that some migrants face in our country,” it reads. “Organized crime has diversified… extending to other illicit activities that directly affects migrants, who, because of their vulnerability, have become targets of crimes such as kidnapping, smuggling, and extortion, creating new challenges for the institutional structure.”

[Mel1973]

yeah, that's really not news either.

[MohandasKGanja]

It's going to be news to a lot of people. Especially with Mexico screeching hypocritically at the United States.

[Mel1973]

It's going to be news to a lot of people. Especially with Mexico screeching hypocritically at the United States.

Really? Are there people in this world who don't know you can buy anything in Mexico for a couple U.S. dollars?

[sputnik]

to anyone who actually knows anything about the immigration issue, this is not news. but i guess it is to people who only know what fox news tells them about illegal immigrants and how they're ruining the world, this will probably be news. and it will be manipulated to point out how mexico is 'hypocritical'. bitch, please.
the US is fully developed and the richest country in the world. the US is constantly setting itself up as the example to follow, going in and 'heroically' 'liberating' countries like iraq from dictators and oppression, and here it is voting racist laws...
on the other hand, mexico is a developing country with a massive corruption problem and drug cartels are running huge parts of the country. but it also has every right (and even the duty) to defend the interests of their nationals living abroad (whether they're there illegally or not). just like it had the right to speak out against the stupid border wall, the way many other countries did.

that said, it's not just the US. foreigners and migrants get treated like shit all over the world. xenophobia and racism are rampant across the globe. and people are fine with migrants doing the dirty jobs they don't want to do any more for half the legal minimum wage and have them take care of their kids and do house repairs for cheap. but when the economy gets bad, it's the dirty foreigners who get scapegoated as the source of all of society's ills and populist, opportunistic politicians start scoring points and gaining voters by preying on these fears and xenophobia.
it's the oldest trick in the book.

[MohandasKGanja]

We could probably argue all day about what constitutes a basic set of knowledge about immigration around the world and how it's handled. Relative to the United States, Mexico treats, in both an official and unofficial capacity, illegal immigrants with draconian measures. For Mexico to complain about the immigration policies of the United States (and they have been doing so long before Arizona's law), it is hypocritical for them to treat undocumented immigrants into their country even more harshly.

[sputnik]

another thing not being addressed is the pressure mexico is under - from the US - to guard its southern border from central and south american migrants trying to work their way up to the US.
the southern mexico/guatemala border = last border before entering NAFTA.

[crumpet]

We could probably argue all day about what constitutes a basic set of knowledge about immigration around the world and how it's handled. Relative to the United States, Mexico treats, in both an official and unofficial capacity, illegal immigrants with draconian measures. For Mexico to complain about the immigration policies of the United States (and they have been doing so long before Arizona's law), it is hypocritical for them to treat undocumented immigrants into their country even more harshly.

Thanks, you save me the trouble.

[AliceInWonderland]

yeah this isn't news how secure the border is between Mexico and Guatemala to an educated person on the subject. our border too needs an overhaul of its security; its a joke and it scares me b/c of that 1 bad person who sneaks over here to do real harm to a massive amount of people otherwise known as a terrorist.

but this goes on in the whole world. the suppressed will find a way!