Criminal deportees worry Mexican border mayors

[The Northerner]

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's border mayors say they are worried about a possible surge in deportations of criminals to their cities after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordered California to reduce its prison population by 33,000.

Mayors of 14 border cities from Tijuana to Matamoros meeting in Mexico City on Friday say they already have problems because U.S. authorities often don't warn them when migrants with criminal records are deported to Mexico.

"There are indications they are going to clean out their prisons," said Manuel Baldenebro, mayor of the city of San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, which sits on the border with California and Arizona. "They (migrant inmates) are a burden, and if they are trying to economize in their jails, they see it as better to send them back."

Baldenebro said the notion of more criminals has caused "fear and insecurity" in cities already plagued by a stubborn wave of drug-related violence that has killed more than 35,000 people nationally since 2006.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110527/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_prison_deportations

[TimLighter]

1. If they committed their crimes in California why should we burden

Mexican cities with our problems?

By that reasoning California and Arizona should clean out their hospital ERs and send the sick and disabled back too. How cruel and unfair would that be?