La Prensa Grafica
(San Salvador, El Salv.) , El Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 10/15/08
The Presidents of
Mexico, Felipe Calderon, and
of El Salvador,
Elias Antonio Saca, met in
Mexico City and endorsed programs
against common national challenges including “the
defense of the rights of immigrants.”
Calderon emphasized that both
countries “must fight against the measures which
criminalize our migrants in our territories and
particularly in the
United States.” The
Salvadoran president pointed out that both countries
are “on the forefront of the defense” of the migrants.
He also thanked the “great
support” by Mexico for the Salvadorans who cross
Mexico “in search of a better
life (in the U.S.)”
From January to June of this year
Mexican officials repatriated 43,975 Central Americans
who had entered illegally. In 2007 Mexico intercepted 120,000 undocumented
immigrants along its southern border with Guatemala and Belize, of whom
114,000 were Central Americans.
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