Mexico offers illegal immigrants tips on how to cross US border [View All]

Times
By Tim Reid


THE Mexican Government is distributing more than one million comic books containing advice and safety tips to immigrants who hope to slip across the United States border illegally.

The 32-page Guide for the Mexican Migrant has angered anti-immigrant groups in the US, who claim that it is little more than a DIY manual on how to sneak into America.

The Mexican Government says that the guide, which advises migrants to carry enough water, to follow railway lines and to avoid wearing heavy clothing when crossing rivers, is to stop them from dying. In recent years, the number of Mexicans who die trying to cross the border — often from thirst in the desert, from drowning, or by suffocation in the back of lorries — has been increasing. About 400 immigrants died along the border in 2003, a 10 per cent increase on the figure for 2002.

Both the US and Mexican governments admit that the death toll must be reduced. Last month President Bush repeated his pledge to reform the immigration system, calling the death toll along the Mexican border unacceptable.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-1426249,00.html

MAYBE FIDEL CASTRO can follow up with a guide to exiting Guantanamo???