Increased Deaths Along the Mexico-U.S. Border

by NAM (reposted)

Mon, Oct 22, 2007 7:31AM

Originally From New America Media

Monday, October 22, 2007 : LOS ANGELES -- On average, one person a day perishes trying to cross the border from Mexico to America, reports La Opinión. Deaths have increased since the implementation of the border enforcement program known as Operation Gatekeeper in 1994. A triple layered wall, night vision equipment and powerful lights separating Tijuana from San Diego force immigrants from Mexico to take more dangerous routes north.

During a visit to Los Angeles, Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights representative Mauricio Farah denounced the policies he believes are responsible for immigrants deaths at the border. "In the last decade, the United States has opted to spend around $30 billion on enforcement, increasing from 6,000 to 18,000 the number of border patrol agents," said Farah, adding that such actions reflect the "closing of the governmental conscience of countries." The California Rural Legal Assistance organization estimates that more than 4,500 immigrants have died in the past 13 years.

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