Posted on 06/12/2005 7:31:56 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Mexico's failing efforts to stop the United States' relining of the Coachella and All-American canals just kicked into higher gear.
For years the Mexican government has criticized the relining of these water pipelines to southernmost California, including San Diego County, because it would stop the seepage of water on which Mexican farmers have long depended. That argument has sunk like a stone. The flow through those canals is part of this state's hard-won share of Colorado River water. Plugging the holes will mean water sufficient to supply 134,000 San Diego households a year. And not plugging the holes in the canals could poke great holes in the multi-government agreement, years in the making, under which San Diego now has the right to buy water it needs from the Imperial Valley. As important, the state has a way to stop exceeding – and imperiling – its draw on Colorado River water.
Mexico, moreover, has its own share of that river's water, a share it manages badly.
Long story short, neither the state nor the federal government is much interested in continuing to let U.S. water sorely needed here seep into Mexico, nor should they be. Both governments, however, have offered to assist Mexico in allocating its own water more efficiently. Mexico, alas, isn't much interested in that.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
Make sure you read the whole thing. Later in the piece, it talks about how Mexico is now arguing that the water is creating "wetlands" for birds, and that therefore it would be an environmental issue to cut the water off. These people are unbelievable.
I think Mexico needs serious co-dependency counseling.
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Naturally, the new mayor of LA will be loudly against lining canals.
ah yes, the old environmentalism ploy.
whenever capitalism's moving too fast for the po' folks, the commies pull out the environmental rules.
It's about Mexico integrating with the US and the growing assumption below the Rio Grande that they can tell us what to do and when to do it. Why not? So far, it's worked like a charm.
mexicans oppose door locks on american homes because it hinders access by their thugs to our goods
same concept
Very succinct and to the point.
AND, the hypocracy of using environmental arguments when the illegals are destroying the environment by leaving their filth on their way to do the "jobs Americans won't do."
One thing that sticks in my craw is the dishonesty about this entire mess. The US voter/citizen has deliberately been kept in the dark about all of it. Why we're being invaded, mass migration, what it means in the long and short run. Do we have a say in our sovereignty? Evidently not. Well, now it's reached critical mass, with people elected to office in the US whose hearts and aims are with Mexico, and it's only going to get worse.
NAFTA was just the first step in complete integration with Mexico. "Mexico are belong to us now" - with its millions of illiterate peasants, corrupt politicians, narco-traffickers, and burgeoning population growth - to assure that by mid-century the North American economic zone with have a population of 500,000,000.
That article about the canals ties in nicely with this other thread:
Clean it up [Mexico pollutes river w/disease, "migrants" swim thru it, then work in food industry]
For decades, the open sewer known as the New River has carried a toxic brew of pollutants across the U.S.-Mexico border, through Calexico and Brawley and on to the Salton Sea, polluting everything in its path.
Once again Americans must pay to support Mexicans?
At some point in time, did we adopt Mexico? Every time I read about Mexico's demands on the U.S. I wonder if I might have missed the adoption process. That's the only thing that would make us responsible for taking care of them. I will never cease to be amazed at their unmitigated gall. It's time we take Vicenti Fox to the woodshed! He needs a good ole' fashioned a$$ beating.
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