Governors Announce Border Security Pact

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/9/04 | Barry Massey - AP

[NormsRevenge]

SANTA FE, N.M. - Governors of U.S. and Mexican states announced an agreement Monday to improve security along their borders.

"One of the best ways to secure our individual homelands is by working together — sharing information, technology and personnel," New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said at a news conference opening a two-day border governors' conference.

Richardson is chairing the conference, which drew governors from four U.S. states and six Mexican states.

The governor of the Mexican state of Baja California, Eugenio Elorduy Walther, said law enforcement agencies in each border state would create units to improve the exchange of information about criminals and security issues.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said the new agreement will provide for a "border security region" rather than a piecemeal approach of "one country versus another country, one state versus another state."

The governors also discussed energy and economic issues.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites), in a speech at the conference's opening ceremony, called for an energy conservation campaign and expanding the production of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind-generated electricity.

"We will end up with cleaner air, cleaner water, an improved economy and a more diversified and stable power supply," Schwarzenegger said.

He added that energy conservation begins at home and that, as a father of four, he always tells his kids to turn off the lights when they leave their rooms. When they don't, he's been known to unscrew the light bulbs.

"From a single light bulb in a child's room to the biggest power plant in our region, we have to take great care in how we make our energy and how we use our energy," he said.

[NormsRevenge]

Border states governors from the United States and Mexico pose for the Border Governors' Conference official photograph in Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Aug. 9, 2004. Standing from left; Texas Gov. Rick Perry, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites), Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Coahuila Gov. Enrique Martinez y Martinez, Baja California Gov. Eugenio Elorduy Walther, Chihuahua Gov. Patricio Martinez Garcia, Nuevo Leon Gov. Jose Natividad Gonzalez Paras, Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours Castelo and Tamaulipas Gov. Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites), second left, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, right, smile as they wait for the group portrait to be taken of all the border governors before the official start of the Border Governors' Conference in Santa Fe, N.M., Monday, Aug. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)

[NormsRevenge]

That's one way to circumvent the feds...

[xrp]

Well, Democrats, Republicans and the Mexicans are all on board now to protect the US-Mexico border. I sure am sleeping easier tonight. How about everyone else?

[South40]

"We will end up with cleaner air, cleaner water, an improved economy and a more diversified and stable power supply," Schwarzenegger said.

Start here.

[HiJinx]

Indexed.

Ummm...did my governess' comments make any sense? States vs. States? Countries vs. Countries? How about, law-abiding vs. the lawless? Has that crossed your mind, Governor?

[MegaSilver]

I loathe Republicrats.

[BurbankKarl]

that trash looks likes parts of Van Nuys

[Prime Choice]

Governors of U.S. and Mexican states announced an agreement Monday to improve security along their borders.

<SARCASM>
    I feel safer already.
</SARCASM>

[NormsRevenge]

Maybe they all been reading the Tombstone Tumbleweed Borderline Politics section.

nyahhhhhh.. 8-\`

[NewRomeTacitus]

The really big news that came out of this conference:

We learned how many RINOs it takes to unscrew a light bulb.

It's disgraceful how Napolitano seems more beholden to Mexico than her own nation. There's no mystery where she stands on Proposition 200. Perhaps the Arizonans should have included a California-style recall measure.

[SAMWolf]

Safer for who, the illegals?

[risk]

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said the new agreement will provide for a "border security region" rather than a piecemeal approach of "one country versus another country, one state versus another state."

This kind of makes sense. It's better than nothing, and it gets people on both sides of the border talking about security concerns in the USA rather than just one side.

We need to get to the place where everyone understands that Americans have a legitimate issue that needs to be resolved. If good diplomacy helps that, then it's fine with me.

[taxed2death]

Richardson, former Dept of Energy chief? Wasn't this the guy in charge when China stole all the nuke secrets?

And he wants to make our borders more secure?



...I got a nice bridge to sell ya..."...he, he, he....

[Area51]

They ought to just shoot the sobs for ILLEGALLY ENTERING THIS COUNTRY.

48 hours of that and there would be no Illegal Immigrant issue!

[Regulator]

Safer for who, the illegals?

That's the only gang of people they give a crap about.

Note the bios of the "American" governors:

California -- an Austrian

Arizona -- from New York, came to Arizona 20 years ago to be a Federal attorney. Spent most of her time in federal office pursuing any white Anglo-Saxon Protestant she could find to pursue, while ignoring the largest concentration of Al-Qaeda cells in the country. Undoubtedly the first lesbian elected governor of Arizona, or any state for that matter.

New Mexico -- Born in Pasadena, but raised in Mexico City from the time he was one year old. Mother was Mexican. That is the country he's loyal to.

Texas -- Well, almost an American. But then, Mr. Perry did sign the illegal alien tuition bill. As far as I'm concerned, Texas left the Union that day.

The governors of these states have no right to make any international pact. It says so explicitly in Article 12 of the United States Constitution. A lot of them alleged in the fight over 187 that "a state can't make a law about immigration". It appears that they don't quite believe that now. Maybe that's because most of them aren't loyal to the United States, and have no idea what our Constitution says.

[Regulator]

This kind of makes sense

It doesn't make any sense at all, considering that a) the governor of Arizona has no right to negotiate anything with regard to U.S. international borders, and b) she has no interest in the United States actually having a border with Mexico. She was elected by Mexicans in Arizona (her slim margin came from Pima County, where illegal voters probably accounted for half that margin), and her campaign manager -- a convicted fraudulent voter from East Los Angeles -- spends most of his time trying to get more Mexicans into the state to vote for her or he's down in Mexico getting orders from her superiors.

Napolitano is a freak show lesbian with a compulsion to control the hated white heterosexual population so that she and her psychotic friends can remove any barriers to their lifestyles. Her best vehicle for accomplishing that is to use the votes of alienated but naturalized Mexicans and illegal voters of the same descent. She's terrified of Arizona Proposition 200 because it cuts at the heart of her strategy by making alien vote fraud infinitely harder in Arizona.

Not one of these governors gives a rat's butt about the border or safety of the United States.

[SAMWolf]

That's the only gang of people they give a crap about.

That sure seems to be the way politicians think today.

[risk]

Thank you for putting things in perspective. She does sound like a new age holdover from a bygone era, one who is clueless about our need to regulate immigration.

[SandRat]

If Jihadi NapaloRENO is involved you can bet there's no security and no legality.

[Redbob]

Can that be?

Ahnuld is no taller than Rick Perry?