Mexico building wall on border with Guatemala, 500,000 immigrants affected. Who will boycott Mexico?
Guatemala City, 9/15/10, IPS: "According to the head of customs for Mexico's tax administration, Raúl Díaz, in order to stop boats carrying contraband, the southern Mexican state of Chiapas is building a wall along the border river Suchiate, similar to the one the United States is building along its southern border with Mexico.
- "It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants," admitted the Mexican official.
- thousands of Central and South Americans cross the river in their attempts to reach the United States in search of opportunity -- and without the required documents.
- "We are watching the Mexican government's initiative with concern because the migrants are in a situation of highest vulnerability, as demonstrated by the massacre in Tamaulipas, where five Guatemalans died," Erick Maldonado, executive secretary of Guatemala's National Council on Migrants, told IPS.
- In addition, a total of 9,758 kidnappings of migrants were reported in Mexico from September 2008 to February 2009, according to the CNDH.
- (This is not correct. A request for ID can only be made if the person has been stopped for another reason:
- in the enforcement of any other law or ordinance of a county, city or town or this state
- Rhode Island already has a stricter law in place than Arizona.) ed.
- construction of the wall on the Mexico-Guatemala border.
- Nevertheless, Maldonado expressed his concern this week to Mexico's migration representative in Guatemala, Alejandro Martínez.
- The Chiapas state's intention to build a wall in some ways echoes the United States' controversial construction of the 1,126-kilometre wall along its southern border river -- known as Río Grande in the U.S.; Río Bravo in Mexico -- to prevent entry of undocumented immigrants....
- state of Chiapas has already begun construction of the barrier, which he said "looks like a wall to prevent the Suchiate River from flooding."
- "Another wall blocks route to US," IPS News, by D. Valladeres, 9/15
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