Army Recruiters dressed in civilian clothes buy young people beer then encourage them to enlist in exchange for citizenship.

Fernando, father of Jesús Alberto Suárez del Solar Navarro, who was killed in Iraq, would like to see Tijuana, MX become a sanctuary for conscientious objectors to the Iraq war.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Tijuanan youth are secretly being recruited in local bars to enlist in the United States Army, said Fernando Suárez del Solar, founder and director of el Proyecto Guerrero Azteca for Peace. He assured us that U.S. Military recruiters, dressed as civilians, work the bars and nightspots, where they invite the youth to drink beer with them and then urge them to enlist in the American military ranks in exchange for conditional citizenship.

Yesterday morning, after asking the City council (of Tijuana) to implore United States authorities to cease this activities and reveal the number of Mexican lives lost in the Iraq War, Suárez del Solar initiated a march to Escondido, California, that will arrive at its destination Friday, entitled "The Five Year March for Peace."

The activist was received in city hall by Jesús Octavio Montaño Moreno, director of the city council who committed to bring the matter to the city government to identify in what way it may possibly address this matter.

In this context, Fernando Suárez del Solar, father of Jesús Alberto Suárez del Solar Navarro, resident of Tijuana killed in the United States' war against Iraq some years ago, asked the city government to bring before the Congress and the Foreign Ministry a proposal to make Tijuuana a "sanctuary" of conscience that demands the return of troops in Iraq.

He revealed that according to data from the Pentagon, 4 thousand soldiers (North American) have died in the United States' war on Iraq, 11 percent of these have been Latinos and less than half of those Mexican.

This 50 percent of the young who have been killed in the war, have not been citizens of the United States, lacking as they were in legal immigration status, and were enlisted with lies that promised to legalize the immigration status of themselves and /or relatives , without the U.S. Government fulfilling its side of the agreement.

I was thinking of heading down there with a hidden cam but since I was in the army back in '77 I dont think the recruiters will fall for it LoL.

Actually, I have mixed feelings about this. I mean I definately think the recruiters should stay out of Tijuana and elsewhere in MX.

But "posthumous" citizenship isnt right. If they made them citizens right off the top in exchange for volunteering I might support something like that.

Thanks again for the article!

-Dan