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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | August 2005 
Aguilar: Nation Not Overrun By Crime
 El Universal/AP
| | The presidential spokesman Rubén Aguilar said that violence in certain cities on the U.S. border makes a bilateral migration accord urgent. |
National security is not at risk from the current wave of violent crime, said presidential spokesperson Rubén Aguilar on Monday. Instead, the problem is centralized in "hot spots" in certain cities.
"The public security of some cities and some regions of the country is at stake, but national security is not," Aguilar said.
Nevertheless, he said, the increased violence necessitates a bilateral immigration agreement with the United States.
"The security situation should bring advances more quickly in a migration accord; an accord that allows an orderly flow, a flow with respect for human rights that assures the security of the United States as much as Mexico," Aguilar told a news conference Monday.
Fox continues to urge U.S. President George W. Bush to follow through on promises to create a migration agreement that would allow more people to work legally north of the border. Instead, Bush recently approved new measures that make it harder for undocumented migrants to get a driver's license and clear the way for an extension of a security wall along the California-Mexico border.
Public safety issues near the border should put a possible migration accord "on the table again," Aguilar said.
Violence has claimed many lives along the border this year, including 110 in Nuevo Laredo, a city of 350,000 people across the border from Laredo, Texas. Much of the violence stems from a war between two powerful drug cartels for control of smuggling routes, officials say.
Aguilar insisted that Mexican authorities are doing their part, working on the federal, state and municipal level to eradicate organized crime linked to the increased violence.
Federal police and troops have been sent to several cities along the northern border and other areas besieged by violence linked to drug trafficking. |
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