Miguel Escobar Valdez
Mexican Consul
1201 "F" Avenue
Douglas, Aizona 85607
Tel: (520) 364-3107, 364-3142
Fax: (520) 364-1379
Conmex@c2i2.com
Red DotAlso See: Meddling Mexicans

Say NO to Mexico 
 Arizona Daily Star -- October 9, 2003
Meddling Mexicans honor two Arizona mayors
...Douglas Mayor Ray Borane [who thinks the border cannot be controlled] is the latest recipient of the prestigious Ohtli award, the highest award granted to Mexican citizens and people of Mexican ancestry living abroad. -- "Mayor Borane in every instance has shown himself to be a defender of human rights for all members of his community, particularly in the case of people of Mexican origin," [Mexican consul Miguel] Escobar said. AP Internal Use Only

Escobar Valdez complains about American Border Patrol
"Civilians Patrol Border" by Susan Carroll - Tucson Citizen - October 28, 2002

...Miguel Escobar Valdez, the Mexican Consul in Douglas, said the American Border Patrol and other organizations are cause for alarm for people living along the border.

"The appearance of organizations that have a definite anti-immigrant profile are always a matter of preoccupation," he said.

"From my perspective, they send a message of radicalism and intolerance that tends to muddle the very complex immigration issue..."

Texans offer to help curb Ariz. ranch 'trespassers'

.....Mexican Consul Miguel Escobar Valdez said he's concerned about the language contained on the Texas organization's Web site (at www.ranchrescue.com).

It proposes the use of weapons to detain "criminal trespassers," a reference to undocumented job seekers, primarily of Mexican origin.

"This in no way helps stabilize the situation," said Escobar. "On the contrary, it adds an additional element of volatility.

"In no way do we consider calls to detain the undocumented to be the way to resolve this problem," the consul said. "Particularly now, when it appears the frequency of incidents of apprehensions by armed individuals is diminishing...."

Escobar Valdez whines about Americans catching illegal aliens

...Deputy Francis was polite, but firm. The aliens arrested that morning, she informed him, were suing John for violation of their civil rights, after lodging a complaint with Miguel Escobar Valdez, the Mexican consul in Douglas. He could be subject to arrest in coming days. As Escobar told it, when he asked them whether they had felt threatened by two men with drawn guns giving orders in a foreign language, they had replied with the Spanish equivalent of, "Hell yes-absolutely!" The Cochise County attorney, Francis added, planned to investigate whether the aliens had a legal case against John Petrello of Whetstone, Arizona. He was to be served with papers soon, apprising him of his legal situation....

Escobar Valdez bellyaches about Roger Barnett, wants him and others 'investigated'

...Workers who make it through the border alive are faced with immediate harassment by anti-immigrant vigilantes enraged at migrants who cut fences, break water pipes, and leave behind plastic trash that kills cows who ingest it. For over a year now, a small group of ranchers and landowners has been waging a private war against illegal immigration in southeast Arizona. Although he calls himself a "victim, not a vigilante," Roger Barnett is the most aggressive of the local ranchers. He has been involved in some two-thirds of the incidents in the past year. The Mexican consul in Douglas, Arizona, Miguel Escobar Valdez, wants Barnett investigated for possible crimes including endangerment, threatening and intimidating, assault, and unlawful imprisonment...

Escobar Valdez details the onslaught in the Detroit Free Press
Illegals intercepted: Fortified defense of U.S. border puts Mexicans on perilous paths -- August 29, 2000

...."At times, there are entire families trying to cross, with small children," said Miguel Escobar Valdez, Mexico's consul in Douglas. "There's been a high number of automobile accidents with drivers who are underage, because the penalties for smuggling are less" for juveniles.

"People travel 15 to 20 people to a vehicle, and sometimes someone suffocates," he said. "There are a lot of broken bones, women of 40, 50, 60 years old who fall in the desert. This is the drama of the migrants as they cross."

Of invasions and charades

"They're coming across at an invasion rate," said Roger Barnett, the leaseholder of a 22,000-acre cattle ranch outside Douglas who earned notoriety recently for detaining illegal migrants at gunpoint. "They should send the military down here or tell Mexico to stop it. It's upsetting that a big country like the United States would let a Third World narco-dictatorship like Mexico run the show....."

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