The Impunity in the border patrol

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The Impunity in the border patrol
By: Carlos Damián October 1, 2010
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México. - The complexity of the migrant problem, and particularly the situations related to the defense of the human rights of the migrants, require that, independently of the different discussed and existing international conventions in the matter, in Mexico is adopted a specialized and particular legal framework that attend them in institutional form and in the case of The States is observed the same deficiency.

There are international arrangements that protect to the migrants. The international Convention about the protection of the human rights of all the migrant workers and of their familiar, that came into effect in July of 2003. However this Convention it has been ratified or signed by a countries minority, between those which is found Mexico only. In this context we have to 450 thousand peasants that are found in legal unaided Arizona. We would propose that is extended the powers to the National Commission of the Human Laws (CNDH) to make human rights claims to the United States officials, that they would be in any event who would be committing violations and felonies to the Mexicans without documents in Arizona - law SB1070 -, and other states of the American Union.

Calls the attention, apart from this, that in the agenda of the ombudsman of the migrant may not have been outlined: the kidnappings, the assaults, the sexual violations, the torture, the deportations without giving notice to the respective consulates of each state of the American Union, the moral and ethical position of the separation of the children of the parents, the mistreatment on the part of policemen of the three orders of the foreign government.

The creation of the protection office of the prosecutor to the migrant would have other argument in favor to the light of the bulletin No.27/09 of the 21 of October of 2009, issued by the Governance Secretariat in the one which is asserted that, according to studies of the National Council of Population, 41 of 50 states of the neighboring country of the north promulgated laws related to the migration in 2008, and that in that year seven of each 10 promulgated laws were of restrictive character.

Meeting without substance
In the meeting of the president of Mexico with his similar of United States, the bilateral relationship crosses by a critical and complex moment in the one which the economic factors, political and of safety meet in an explosive table. In the penalties expressed by both governments on the Law SB1070 reveal the impotence and the lack of clear ideas of both presidents to offset a discriminatory regulation, racist and any way you look at it unjust, and pay with them to a to feel of setback in the matter of the binational migration. Result meaningful that Obama may have admitted that the solution to this matter goes through an integral migrant reform, the one which, however, it can not be given without the support of the republicans in the Senate.

For discounted, neither one nor other government have put on table the fund problems: the economic asymmetries and the unequivocal terms that regulate the exchanges between both countries, factors that in last instance, encourage the vast migrant flow that crosses the common frontier in address to the north in spite of the recession, of the discriminatory regulations, persecutions, and of the high-tech devices for the border alertness. In what corresponds to the violence associated with drug traffic, it is patent the absence in both governments of an efficient strategy give the combat to that phenomenon: the recent announcements of the American government in connection with a change of way in its own political of combat to the traffic and illegal drugs consumption.

As well as the critiques formulated by high officials of the White House at the limits of Calderon of safety and combat at the delinquency, put on interdiction the usefulness and the origin of the police - soldier vision that it has prevailed in the bilateral treatment of that phenomenon in the last decades, and that today is articulated in connection with the designated Initiative Merida. For elemental congruity, the authorities of Washington must undertake a deep review of call it assistance plan.

In this sense calls the attention, that in the agenda of the meeting may not have been outlined a review in depth of the economic aspects and the bilateral relationship, in spite that the referred phenomena - organized delinquency and illegal migration - are explained in good measure in the wake of the lack of development opportunities and of the awful state of the national economy in the last decades, as a consequence of the directors imposed from Washington and adopted by the cycle of neoliberal government.

In short, the terms, that modular currently the bilateral relationship in economic matter, political and from safety, they result to the light from the available judgment elements, senile, anachronistic and improper for the treatment from the current problems, and these elements put of manifesto the relevancy and need of a redefinition general and deep of the bilateral relationship. In this perspective, results difficult to understand how they will be able both governments to advance in the relationship binational if persist, in one and other side, inertia exercises and of political routine as those which always they have been given between Washington and Mexico. (La Jornada, opinion, p. 21, May 21, 2010).