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Mexico vows to take legal action against U.S. after deadly El Paso shooting

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Mexico on Sunday threatened to take legal action against the United States for failing to protect its citizens after this weekend's mass shooting in the border city of El Paso.

Of the 20 people gunned down at a Walmart at the Cielo Vista Mall, at least three were Mexican citizens, and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard promised Mexico City will act.

Mexico vows to take legal action against U.S. after deadly El Paso shooting
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Mexico is on course to have 30,000 murders this year and they want to sue us? Unreal. :doh

Murders in Mexico surge to record in first half of 2019 - Reuters

And how about the Mexican citizens, many of them here illegally, killing Americans or taking up space in our prisons? Can we sue them for that?
 
Why would Mexico take legal action? No Mexicans were targeted, right? Only US citizens.


Right?
 
KevinKohler said:
Why would Mexico take legal action? No Mexicans were targeted, right? Only US citizens.

Right?
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He was a white supremacist who was targeting Mexicans, last I heard.
 
lwf said:
He was a white supremacist who was targeting Mexicans, last I heard.
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If they were Mexican, why were they living in el Paso, Texas? Did he specifically target people with dual citizen ships?
 
KevinKohler said:
If they were Mexican, why were they living in el Paso, Texas? Did he specifically target people with dual citizen ships?
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Is that a serious question?
 
KevinKohler said:
Why would Mexico take legal action? No Mexicans were targeted, right? Only US citizens.


Right?
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My understanding is he killed three Mexican nationals. I'm not trying to minimize the tragedy of that for those families, but about 80-90 Mexicans are murdered every day in Mexico.
 
Ahlevah said:
My understanding is he killed three Mexican nationals. I'm not trying to minimize the tragedy of that for those families, but about 80-90 Mexicans are murdered every day in Mexico.
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If a US citizen is murdered in, say, Germany, does the US sue Germany?
 
KevinKohler said:
If a US citizen is murdered in, say, Germany, does the US sue Germany?
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No. Only if the government in charge was knowingly negligent of the threat or was involved in the action itself.
 
lwf said:
El Paso Demographics
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I'm not interested in race or ethnicity. I'm wondering why the Mexican government thinks it has grounds to pursue litigation against the US due to some Americans being killed in a mass shooting.

Perhaps you could enlighten me?
 
It's usually a travel ban or travel advisory for Mexican citizens to defer travel to the United States. The US State Department is enforcing the ban on US citizens traveling to North Korea after a college student was murdered in a North Korean prison camp.
 
KevinKohler said:
I'm not interested in race or ethnicity. I'm wondering why the Mexican government thinks it has grounds to pursue litigation against the US due to some Americans being killed in a mass shooting.

Perhaps you could enlighten me?
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Ask the source...

Mexico Secretariat of Foreign Affairs
c/o Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray
Plaza Juárez 20,
Col. Centro, Mexico City. CP 06010
Telephone: (55) 3686 - 5100
Twitter: @SRE_mx
 
Ahlevah said:
Mexico is on course to have 30,000 murders this year and they want to sue us? Unreal. :doh

Murders in Mexico surge to record in first half of 2019 - Reuters

And how about the Mexican citizens, many of them here illegally, killing Americans or taking up space in our prisons? Can we sue them for that?
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That’s funny. Maybe from the settlement they will built a wall to prevent their citizens from coming to our dangerous country.

Juarez has 1,200 murders a year.
In 2018 more Americans were killed in Mexico (75) than all other destinations combined.
 
KevinKohler said:
I'm not interested in race or ethnicity. I'm wondering why the Mexican government thinks it has grounds to pursue litigation against the US due to some Americans being killed in a mass shooting.

Perhaps you could enlighten me?
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I don't know that they do have grounds to pursue litigation. I was responding to your statement that "No Mexicans were targeted. Only US citizens." The targets appear to have been Mexicans.
 
lwf said:
I don't know that they do have grounds to pursue litigation. I was responding to your statement that "No Mexicans were targeted. Only US citizens." The targets appear to have been Mexicans.
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If he wanted to kill Mexicans, he would have gone to Mexico.
 
KevinKohler said:
If he wanted to kill Mexicans, he would have gone to Mexico.
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There are plenty of Mexicans inside the USA on VISAs


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KevinKohler said:
If he wanted to kill Mexicans, he would have gone to Mexico.
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Or he wanted to kill Mexicans in the US because he doesn't want them here.
 
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