SUCCESS ACCOMPLISHED DUE TO COMMUNITY TRUST ON LAW ENFORCEMENT.

El Paso, TX –The Border Network for Human Rights, a 13-year-old community organizing group with about 4,000 members in El Paso and Southern New Mexico, is happy, but not surprised about the recent ranking of El Paso as the safest City of the Country by CQ Press, a publishing firm based in Washington D.C.

Border Network strongly believes that this accomplishment is due to the trust that communities have towards law enforcement agencies, same that enables them to cooperate in reporting crime. We have working really hard with our local and federal law enforcement agencies to provide communities security, to reduce crime rate, and to focus enforcement activities on real criminal threats.

Border Network also considers that one element of success was the fact that El Pasoans and our Police and Sheriff Department rejected the idea that immigrant communities were the enemy or the problem. We are very confident that if we would had the Arizona type of policies and practices, the result would not had been the same, communities would live in fear, would not report crimes and would not trust their law enforcement agencies.

A few months ago Border Network released an independent Border Security Poll, which showed that the majority of residents in Border communities felt safe. However, there have been successful attempts to present our border communities as full of violence, chaos and out of control. Furthermore our current Administration and the U.S. Congress have acted on these false premises and have decided to implement aggressive policies towards our border region, included, but not limited to the deployment of the National
Guard, the irrational augmentation of Border Patrol agents and others.

Now is very clear that a good relation, an effective communication, a continuous dialogue, and mutual respect between law enforcement and communities are key elements for success.

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More information on the Border Network for Human Rights: This organization, founded in 1998, is one of the leading immigration reform and human rights advocacy organization in the United States. Based in El Paso, the BNHR counts about
4,000 members in El Paso and Southern New Mexico.

Border Network for Human Rights
2115 N. Piedras, El Paso, Texas 79930
(915) 577-0724; F: (915) 577-0370
www.bnhr.org

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