Mexico Immigration Laws
It turns out that U.S. citizens are as guilty of breaking sovereignty laws as the people chased around by members of the Minuteman Project. U.S. citizens unlawfully appropriate beach-front properties along the Restricted Zone since 1993 when the Mexican Government introduced a practical loophole into law. Natives seeking to enter these beaches have been confronted abusively (at gun-point for example) by expatriates, who often block access to public areas.
According to a report in Excelsior, in 2007, 90% of the best oceanfront land in the tourist areas of Baja California Sur and La Paz, had been leased to private, mostly foreign nationals. It is alleged that U.S. citizens are setting up shell corporations to register property intended as private real-estate.
Even with the introduction of the Mexican Foreign Investment Law in 1993, beaches are public property and cannot be sold. The foreign appropriation of beaches also occurs in many other coastal states, including Michoacan and Nayarit.