Mexican Embassy says that illegal migration not a crime

Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago to News
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Yet, when I lived there, I could be asked for my "papers" at any time and deported if not provided. Seems to be a bit of a double standard there.

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  • Posted by Technocracy 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Paying Mexico for their passage no doubt. They probably will accept much less to just let them pass through than coyotes charge their own people.

    If Mexico was the target, watch their attitude change.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, it must be, in one sense. How are these Central and South American "refugees" passing through the US/Mexico border if they didn't first pass into Mexico? Having lived there, I know that Mexico takes its border control pretty seriously (if manned by corrupt border agents). They know full well that these people are transients and are either giving them transportation or are at least allowing them to enter and telling them that they have x days to exit or if they are picked up they will be deported back to their homeland.
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  • Posted by ShruginArgentina 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I believe the law still says a foreigner cannot own property within 50 KM of the coast but it is possible to have a property in that zone if the title is held in trust by a Mexican bank. That is only possible if the land has been "regularized" by the Federal government.

    My home in Sayulita was on ejido land and the "papers" were in the name of a Mexican woman who was married to a good friend of mine. She was the "presta nombre" for dozens of Americans and Canadians who "bought" ejido property and built homes there. She was a member of the ejido and highly respected in Sayulita by the Mexcians and foreigners alike.

    The customary fee for "borrowing" her name was $100 USD per year and no one ever lost a penny or a moment of sleep doing business with her.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm surprised that you could even own property as a non-citizen. When I lived there in the mid 90s, foreign ownership was prohibited.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    This twerp had the audacity to talk down to me when I was there with a group protesting their distribution of Matrícula Consular card to illegal aliens who made it their facility in downtown Phoenix. These cards are illegitimate ID here in the US but are used to established bank accounts, mortgages and credit cards.

    If US embassy's did this they would be shutdown.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    AJ, you really need to stop holding back. ;-)

    In all seriousness, politicians seem to be the same all over.
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