US Army Recruits Illegal Immigrants
 Prensa Latina
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Mexico City - Citizen groups of Mexican northern Sinaloa state denounced on Wednesday that the US army is making propaganda to recruit illegal immigrants from Mexico to send them to the war in Iraq.
Media reports from Culiacan, the capital of that state, quoted statements by civil activist Ildefonso Ortiz Cabrera, who said that the US officers use young men of Latin American origin to recruit the Mexicans.
In this reference, the report said that the propaganda is made out of public places, but those intermediaries began to visit homes, where illegal immigrants are supposed to live, in recent times.
Ortiz Cabrera spoke about his own experience in Phoenix, Arizona, where they suggested that he went to a military base, and he decided then to return to El Burrion, his town in Sinaloa.
The case of Carlos Mario Perez was also mentioned, because faced with the serious situation of the US army in Iraq, where the US citizens do not want to go, they tried to recruit him directly, and he returned in fear to Mexican territory a year ago.
In those testimonies, they said other Mexican illegal immigrant families in the United States have decided to return to their places of origin, because they fear that their adolescent children are taken, with the passing of time, as cannon fodder to an alien war to them. |
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