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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (92067)	10/1/2010 1:47:17 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224717

Sanders only U.S. mayor at border conference By Sandra Dibble Friday, September 24, 2010 signonsandiego.com Mayors of four northern Mexican cities gathered Thursday for a daylong conference focusing on cross-border issues. They held their biannual meeting for the first time in the United States — at the Westgate Hotel in downtown San Diego — and San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders was the sole U.S. mayor to participate. Those attending from the Mexican side were Tijuana Mayor Jorge Ramos and the mayors Ciudad Juarez, Nogales and Nuevo Laredo. Among the topics discussed were the deportation to Mexico of large number of Mexicans citizens who have committed felonies in the United States. Jose Reyes Ferriz, mayor of Ciudad Juarez, said Mexican border mayors are asking U.S. officials to stem the deportation of convicts to their communities. Of 80,000 people deported to Ciudad Juarez in the past three years, 28,000 had U.S. criminal records, he said including 7,000 who had served time for rape and 2,000 convicted of murder. Reyes said that U.S. authorities are “on the verge” of launching a new program that flies deportees by plane to central Mexico rather than busing them to the border. He also said the large number of criminal deportees has contributed to the violence in Juarez, which has reported more than 2,200 homicides so far this year.