A Nice Story from the South

From the L.A. Times:  Jose Luis Gutierrez, the mayor of a suburb of Mexico City, has declared Ecatepec a “sanctuary” for the undocumented immigrants from Central America who pass through here each day. He has ordered his police officers and city officials not to arrest, extort or otherwise harass the migrants. He’s also ordered them not to cooperate with Mexican immigration agents.

One might wonder why this Mexican mayor feels strongly enough about migrants to declare his city a sanctuary.  “mmigration is a deeply personal issue for him, Gutierrez said. One of his cousins has lived in the Los Angeles area, “without papers,” for 10 years. “We were raised together by our grandmother,” Gutierrez said. Because his cousin is in the U.S. illegally, he hasn’t been able to return to Mexico and the two men haven’t seen each other in a decade. “All those people who have gone to the north are our blood,” the mayor said.”

KJ