Mexican Senator: Destroy all borders & fences

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 07:53 AM PST

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El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 11/17/09 [Also in dozens of other papers of this chain]

Mexican senator: destroy all fences – full translation. –

PRD (pol. party) Senator Pablo Gomez Alvarez, who said he was for the destruction of fences on national borders, stated that the construction of fences to divide territorial limits represents acts of xenophobia, of superiority and of rejection to what is different. The legislator from the Distrito Federal explained that various fences have been built between countries in the course of history to avoid the risk of immigrants, illnesses, wars, and contraband, among others; nevertheless, this has demonstrated “that the physical borders are insufficient to undermine peoples, nor their desire to prosper and forge ahead.”

Pablo Gomez stated that, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is still divided due to the installation of structures which separate “families, peoples and countries.” Nevertheless, he emphasized that “what causes us the most pain” is the decision of the American government to protect one third of its border with Mexico, to prevent the entrance of undocumented immigrants. Because of this, he requested the Senate of the Republic to urge the United Nations Organization, by means of its General Assembly, to approve a mandate that would require the destruction of the fences that divide countries, cities and continents, and that it prohibit their possible construction.

Lastly, he commented that the building of divisions has aggravated sentiments of xenophobia, of nationalistic superiority, of rejection to what is different; principles which sought to be extinct during the years after the World War II. Gomez Alvarez ended, “We must learn from the errors of the past century, the consequences of the Second World War, the creation of false borders, the division of countries and continents by the winners of a long and devastating war.”

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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 11/17/09

Mexico’s corruption ranking worsens

Transparency International is a civil organization which measures the levels of corruption in 180 countries around the world. Countries are assigned a numerical value from 1, that representing the highest level of corruption, up to 10, representing the least level. Last year, Mexico was in the 72nd place among the 180 countries ranked; it has now fallen 17 places (to the 89th) and scored a 3.3; other low scoring Latin American countries were Guatemala (3.4), Peru and Colombia (both 3.7)

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Diario Xalapa (Xalapa, Veracruz) 11/17/09

Alien smuggling

A truck loaded with children’s furniture ended up abandoned on the side of the road when it lost a wheel while northbound on the highway from Mexico City to Pachuca, state of Hidalgo. The driver fled. There were also 28 illegal aliens hidden under the truck’s false bottom. The 20 males and 8 females aiming to reach the United States were all from Guatemala and Honduras. Mexican federal police reports that 600 undocumented aliens were located in October at various control points around the country.

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Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 11/17/09

Guatemalan deportation numbers

Guatemala’s Migration Agency reported today that 24,296 Guatemalans who were in the United States illegally have now been deported this year. The number for November reached 931. According to Guatemala’s Chancery (equiv. Dep’t. of State), there are 1.2 million Guatemalans residing in the U.S., of which 60% are here illegally.