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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 767689" data-attributes="member: 12952">Mexican Church Confirms Mexico Abuses Its Own “Immigrants”Mexican Church confirms my 2006 accusationIn March of 2006, I wrote an open letter to President Vicente Fox&nbsp; in which I accused Mexican authorities of the hypocrisy of blaming the&nbsp; US for abusing Mexican immigrants while abusing their own immigrants —&nbsp; mostly Central Americans — in the most callous manner.I wrote that the immigrant Central Americans I had spoken with&nbsp; consistently confirmed stories of the Mexican police and border guards&nbsp; stealing the money from male immigrants and raping or molesting&nbsp; immigrant women.I had spoken with enough Central American immigrants about this to be&nbsp; convinced, but was concerned that there was no authority to cite. After&nbsp; all, the Mexican authorities could not be expected to denounce&nbsp; themselves, and the US authorities were busy supporting “immigration&nbsp; reform,” so the false accusations of Mexican authorities of abuse by the&nbsp; US, i.e., by the border patrol and by any American opposed to illegal&nbsp; immigration, were grist for their mill. An accusation of abuses&nbsp; perpetrated by Mexican authorities would have softened their argument&nbsp; considerably. The media said nothing about this open blight on Mexico.Hence, information on this abuse was painfully — tragically — slow to come.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 767689, member: 12952"] [B]Mexican Church Confirms Mexico Abuses Its Own “Immigrants” Mexican Church confirms my 2006 accusation[/B] In March of 2006, I wrote an [COLOR=black][B]open letter to President Vicente Fox[/B][/COLOR] in which I accused Mexican authorities of the hypocrisy of blaming the US for abusing Mexican immigrants while abusing their own immigrants — mostly Central Americans — in the most callous manner. I wrote that the immigrant Central Americans I had spoken with consistently confirmed stories of the Mexican police and border guards stealing the money from male immigrants and raping or molesting immigrant women. I had spoken with enough Central American immigrants about this to be convinced, but was concerned that there was no authority to cite. After all, the Mexican authorities could not be expected to denounce themselves, and the US authorities were busy supporting “immigration reform,” so the false accusations of Mexican authorities of abuse by the US, i.e., by the border patrol and by any American opposed to illegal immigration, were grist for their mill. An accusation of abuses perpetrated by Mexican authorities would have softened their argument considerably. The media said nothing about this open blight on Mexico. Hence, information on this abuse was painfully — tragically — slow to come. [/QUOTE]

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