Who's Fault Is It?

Here's a few quotes from Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez about the plight of migration into the US of Mexicans.

Speaking at an event organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City, Derbez said Washington has to "view migration as a positive thing" and can no longer afford to ignore the plight of millions of Mexicans who risk their lives to sneak into the United States and go to work.

Every year, thousands of illegal migrants from Mexico, Central America and around the world die trying to sneak into the United States, a fact that Derbez called "a first-class violation of human rights" and "a daily struggle with global implications."

I live in a border state and we've already had over 350 deaths in 2003 from people trying to cross the border illegally. A sad statistic but is it really a human rights violation by the United States or should Mexico work on fixing their own countries problems so their citizens don't feel the need to flee their own country. If they can't even run their own country properly where do they get off telling us how to run ours. What is the United States supposed to do to decrease the deaths that they haven't already done.

Are the deaths of illegal immigrants from Mexico, Mexico's or the United States fault?

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