Mexico Offers Help for Rita's Homeless

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Mexico Offers Help for Rita's Homeless

Friday September 23, 2005 6:31 PM

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ

Associated Press Writer

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) - Mexico, coming to its powerful northern neighbor's aid for the second time this month, promised to set up shelters for any Americans left homeless by Hurricane Rita.

Nuevo Laredo Mayor Daniel Pena ordered police officers to guide the evacuees, most of them Mexican-Americans who avoided shelters in the United States in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

After Katrina, Mexico sent an army unit to Texas and a navy ship to Louisiana with aid - the first time in more than 150 years that a Mexican military unit was allowed to operate on U.S. soil.

On Friday, temporary permits had been purchased for more than 3,000 cars to cross into Mexico. Most of those who waited in long lines for the permits were legal residents or U.S. citizens, and almost all planned to stay with family or friends in Mexico until Rita passed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5297870,00.html

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[ronnykmarshall]

2. This was on the local news here in LA.

Some people are going as far as Monterey. Probably the best idead. If I had family or friends in Mexico, that's where I'd be heading.

[radwriter0555]

3. this was a scene in a movie recently.......

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