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Sample Letter to an Elected Representative

We urge you to contact your elected representatives to voice your opinion about extradition policies with Mexico. Below, is a sample letter to help you articulate your thoughts to your elected representatives.

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Copy and paste the following text into an e-mail to your representatives.

Honorable (Elected Person), or
Dear Senator/Assembly member/ Congressman (woman):

I am writing to you as a concerned citizen who is outraged by the failure of Mexico to comply with the Extradition Treaty between our two countries. Mexico should not be allowed to determine what sentence a fugitive is given for a crime committed in the United States. No foreign country should be allowed to impose their laws in the United States and it is absolutely outrageous that Mexico is being allowed to do so.

I understand that the Mexican Supreme Court has decided that a sentence of life imprisonment is barred by their constitution and therefore they will not extradite a criminal, no matter how heinous the crime, unless the United States promises that that person will be eligible for parole. This forces our prosecutors to either reduce the charges or allow the criminal to remain in Mexico. That is an absolutely intolerable situation which must be remedied immediately.

As a citizen, I have a right to demand that the laws which I help to enact through the initiative process or through my legislators, be enforced.

I demand that, as my elected representative, you insist that our Federal government take immediate action to force Mexico to comply with the treaty, withdraw from the treaty, renegotiate the treaty, or any other action that would immediately require the unrestricted return of fugitives to the United States to stand trial. As a taxpayer, I demand that no further aid, diplomatic, economic, industrial, or humanitarian, be given to Mexico until this issue has been resolved.

Very truly yours,

Your name here

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