One of many, many news reports about how Mexico fights more for its condemned murderers and rapists on death row in America than America fights for its abducted children in Mexico.
For the US noncompliance with some of the tenants of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Mexico sued the United States at the International Court of Justice at the Hague.
Too bad the US government is unwilling to sue Mexico at the International Court of Justice for Mexico's noncompliance with the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.
Of course it's not just the president. Members, and former members, of the US State Dept. also get directly involved when the US seems to be violating its treaty obligations to other countries:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-voices-former-state-department-official-urges-president-implement-ruling-world-courthttp://news.yahoo.com/government-asks-texas-halt-mexicans-death-sentence-224327526.htmlMaybe we can make a deal to stop executing Mexican nationals who come to the United States to rape and murder in exchange for Mexico returning our abducted children. Too bad it will never happen. Child abduction cases are never even on the table when it comes to high level negotiations with these countries. With "Plan Mexico" we give Mexico $400 million per year to help them fight drug traffickers and crime within its borders, but can't add a simple requirement to that gift that they do something about the 10's of thousands of abducted American children within its borders?
Of course, I am not the first to make this point:
"I was here once before when we bailed out Mexico with the NAFTA treaty. The peso was falling apart. I was down in Mexico doing shows, drug dealers and cartels everywhere, and we were going to lend them billions of dollars. And I went to President Clinton myself and then Attorney General Janet Reno, and I said we need one thing. If we are going to bail Mexico out, let us make them sign an extradition treaty of fugitives, murders, criminals and get our kids back from Mexico. Right? Did not happen. What a perfect time for us to say we are going to save your entire country, we are going to lend you billions of dollars and shore up your economy, but you know what, since that meeting with President Clinton we now have on record over 3,000 murders and fugitives down there and we do not know how many kids"
Obama asks Supreme Court to block execution of illegal alien in Texashttp://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/obama-asks-supreme-court-to-block-illegal-alien-s-executionDave Gibson, Immigration Reform Examiner
July 5, 2011
Obama stepping in on behalf of Mexican national who raped and murdered U.S. teenager
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On Friday, the Obama administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt this week’s execution of Mexican national Humberto Leal Jr., 38.
“Solicitor General Donald B.Verrilli, Jr., argued that Leal's execution would cause the U.S. to violate treaty obligations with ‘serious repercussions’ for foreign policy and would raise threats of retaliation to Americans who travel or work abroad,” according to the SCOTUS blog.
The Obama administration now joins the government of Mexico as well as Leal's lawyers in claiming that the illegal alien’s rights were violated under those supposedly set down by the Vienna Convention.
Leal is scheduled to be executed on Thursday in Texas’ death chamber for the 1994 rape and murder of a San Antonio teenager.
Last month, the condemned man filed suit against the state of Texas to prevent the sentence from being carried-out.In addition to his criminal defense team, an attorney representing the Mexican Consulate stood with Leal at that proceeding.
Mexico does not have the death penalty and opposes its use in all cases. In fact, they have a standing policy not to extradite criminals to the U.S., without an assurance that prosecutors will not seek the death penalty.
Leal raped his victim, Adria Sauceda, in a field before bashing her head in with a rock.
During Leal’s 1995 trial, defense attorneys actually claimed that the teenager had caused her own death by falling and hitting her head on a rock, after she attacked Leal. The jury was not moved by his story and deliberated for less than an hour before finding him guilty.
Leal is one of 51 Mexican nationals currently sitting on death rows throughout the U.S.
In 2008, President George W. Bush infuriated dozens of victims’ families by placing a hold on all 51 executions and ordering reviews of their cases, after the International Court of Justice at The Hague complained that the men had not been given proper opportunity to seek advice from their respective Mexican Consulate offices.
The Supreme Court later overturned Bush’s order. Since that time, one of the Mexican nationals was executed in Texas.
