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Friday, June 10, 2005

Problems with policies in Mexico

It doesn't seem likely that Mexico will extradite cop killer, Raul-Garcia Gomez. In May, Denver police officer Detective Donald Young, was shot and killed while working off duty. After a month long search, the killer was found, but found in Mexico. He fled the Colorado, then the country to Mexico.

Mexico opposes capital punishment, which is what Gomez deserves and would get if he were caught before he crossed the US-Mexico boarder. Mexico even passed a law to protect Mexican nationals in Mexican prisons from being extradited to other countries where they might receive a life sentence.

Unfortunately, Mexico is also having major police protection problems of there own. A police chief in Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey, Mexico was gunned down just nine hours after he took office. And thats not the only police officer to be killed in Nuevo Laredo this year. The city is having a problem with two of Mexico's largest drug gangs who have killed over 60 people since January.

Earlier this year, Mexico's President Vicente Fox sent 700 soldiers and federal agents to try to restore law and order in this boarder town...700 soldiers and federal agents and a police chief still gets killed 3 months later. Maybe they should re-think their policies. But hey, if their president Fox gets his way, they will just send these problems north with open boarders, but we still won't be able to prosecute those “problems” to the fullest extent of our law.

With Mexico's own police problems and their policies, don't expect any miracles in the Donald Young case.

1 Comments:

At 11:01 AM, Blogger Riss said...

Infuriating. They can't habdle their own problems but won't let other countries do it either when it affects them.

 

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