Posted on 08/28/2007 11:55:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
EL PASO, Texas - The mayors of the Texan city of El Paso and the Mexican city of Juarez led a protest by dozens of people on Saturday against a planned border wall to stem illegal immigration into America.
The protesters held hands across the Paso del Norte Bridge, which spans the Rio Grande and connects the downtown cores of the two cities.
Resentment against the wall runs deep in the border areas of Texas. Landowners are concerned it may cut across their property, conservationists see it destroying crucial riverside habitat, and some activists see it inflaming ethnic tensions.
El Paso Mayor John Cook and Juarez Mayor Hector Murguia Lardizabal embraced at the top of the bridge.
"Today is a historic day in the expression of friendship between two mayors, two cities and two countries. It is necessary for Washington and Mexico City to understand that our border doesn't separate us, it joins us," Cook said.
Murguia said the Mexican government had failed its own people who he said were forced to go north seeking jobs because of the poverty they faced at home.
John Neck, a resident of border town of Brownsville in the far southeastern corner of Texas, made the long trek to El Paso in the west of the state for the event.
"Mexico is the most important country to the United States. They're not going anywhere ... if we build a wall it will set back relations with Mexico 100 years, and you can't blame them, they know what a wall means," said Neck, who described himself as a fifth-generation Texan.
Supporters of the wall, which is planned to run for hundreds of miles along the border, argue it is needed to help block the swelling tide of illegal immigration as well as widespread drug and gun smuggling.
Officials have said that construction of the Texas portion of the wall could begin as early as this fall.
But local opposition is rising in border areas which often have large Latino populations.
Previous protests against the wall on the Rio Grande have involved flotillas of paddlers. Activists said an anti-wall rally was also scheduled for later on Saturday in Mission, on the border in southeast Texas.
Wow, “DOZENS” of them. Considering the obvious media bias inherent, that must be the realistic equivalent of “not a whole lot.”
These mayors probably have the same constituency going back and forth across the border, so they probably don’t care a lick about sovereignity.
Here's a little news flash for you, pal. Americans harbor a LOT of resentment against the illegals invading our country. So, the best thing you can do is stay in Mexico! ALL of you!
>>the best thing you can do is stay in Mexico! ALL of you!<<
Why would they stay in Mexico? We reward them for coming here illegally. Look at all the freebies they get (that we pay for.)
Someone needs to look in to Mr. Cook’ finances.
The article after this one is about Uranus. This one’s about THE anuses. Can we change the subject? LOL
Of course they don't want to stay in Mexico. They've got it made 1000 times better in America than they do in that hell hole they're from. The thing that really angers me is that they're bringing it to America with them. At the rate they're going, we'll be a third world country in a decade.
Mayor Cook is right, it is a “historic day” when the Mayor of a U.S. city shows his traitor stripes by supporting the agenda of a foreign country. Mr. Cook needs to recall what side of the border he lives on and that he is only one small part of the state of Texas. It sounds like he’s forgotten. Perhaps, some Texan should remind him.
So - what are we waiting for? To become a third world country in a ‘decade’? (IMHO, we are almost there, already.)
We need to demand of our lawmakers to get rid of the ‘anchor baby’ and demand that ALL social services and employment to illegals be stopped immediately. We also need to highly tax any monies wired to Mexico.
They will self-deport within three months.
Clever, real clever!!
I think something needs to be done about all the money wired to Mexico, too. If not a tax, a cap on how much can be sent and how often? Don’t we already have laws governing how much money can be taken/sent out of the country?
"Mexico is the most important country to the United States.
Pull your head out of the sand, John Neck, before Al Qaeda separates it from you.
Yeah, I know. It was pretty bad.
I just get so tired of the idiots that think that all our nation is good for, is the provision of hand-outs at the expense of United States Citizens.
Fix Mexico and leave our nation alone you jackasses...
Well, we’ll just build the wall a little bit north of El Paso then.
For all of the talk of La Raza about Mexico reclaiming California and Texas, a little known fact is that a Division of Texas Rangers (12 Rangers) is planning an attack on Mexico to annex it as South Texas.
I heard a caller on LA talk radio yesterday, a heavily accented man who said he was a mexican national and a leagal immigrant to the US. He went on to say the thing with illegal mexicans was, well, we Americans stole this land from mexico and bla bla bla.
I wanted to ask him to explain why then were illegals pouring into places like North Carolina and well, every damn state in the Union. Immigrants like this self procalaimed “legal resident” we don’t need more of.
Regards
So who stole Mexico from the Indians, I don’t think they were speaking Spanish when the conquistadors showed up.
Can there be any question about the patriotism of the these mayors?
The mexican is very patriotic. He is trying to dump his leaches on us which is the mexican patriotic thing to do. The American mayor has no patriotism and should be removed.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.