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Is the US building a fence on Mexico's southern border?
A radio talk show | I'm not sure

Posted on 04/28/2008 4:29:00 AM PDT by deuteronlmy232

I was chagning stations on my car radio, using that function that let's you listern for a few seconds than goes on to the enxt station, when I thought I heard that we, the US tax payers, had sent 1.6 billion dollars to Mexico to build a fence on the Mexican southern border.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: fence
Not the border between the US and Mexico, but on Mexico's southern border. Does anyone have any information on this?
1 posted on 04/28/2008 4:29:00 AM PDT by deuteronlmy232
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To: deuteronlmy232

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

2 posted on 04/28/2008 4:32:35 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Diogenesis

I agree, but is there any truth ot what I think I heard?


3 posted on 04/28/2008 4:33:24 AM PDT by deuteronlmy232 (So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him...)
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To: deuteronlmy232

Already have one.

http://varifrank.com/archives/2006/04/it_cant_be_done_1.php


4 posted on 04/28/2008 5:04:43 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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After reading the comments as your link, I'm not convinced that is what I heard. It sounded to me as if the money had just been allocated ant the fence was in the process of being built, not that it had been built.

But, I thank you just the same.

5 posted on 04/28/2008 5:18:57 AM PDT by deuteronlmy232 (So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him...)
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There are many stories to this effect but who knows what plans Mexico has for the money?.

http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/02/merida-president-bush-plan-mexico.html


6 posted on 04/28/2008 5:30:54 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: deuteronlmy232

I believe the US did help with a fence between the Dominican Republic and Haiti a few years ago.


7 posted on 04/28/2008 5:42:32 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: deuteronlmy232
I believe that you are referring to the "Merida Initiative", which I don't believe has been funded (the proposal is for $1.4 billion over a period of years, with $550 million in the first year.)

There's a page at our State Department on it here: The Merida Initiative: United States – Mexico – Central America Security Cooperation.

From that page, it appears that the money is being spent on more than just fencing:

To achieve these goals, President Bush has requested $550 million as part of a multi-year program to provide:

* Non-intrusive inspection equipment, ion scanners, canine units for Mexican customs, for the new federal police and for the military to interdict trafficked drugs, arms, cash and persons.

* Technologies to improve and secure communications systems to support collecting information as well as ensuring that vital information is accessible for criminal law enforcement.

* Technical advice and training to strengthen the institutions of justice – vetting for the new police force, case management software to track investigations through the system to trial, new offices of citizen complaints and professional responsibility, and establishing witness protection programs.

* Helicopters and surveillance aircraft to support interdiction activities and rapid operational response of law enforcement agencies in Mexico.

* Initial funding for security cooperation with Central America that responds directly to Central American leaders’ concerns over gangs, drugs, and arms articulated during July SICA meetings and the SICA Security Strategy.

* Includes equipment and assets to support counterpart security agencies inspecting and interdicting drugs, trafficked goods, people and other contraband as well as equipment, training and community action programs in Central American countries to implement anti-gang measures and expand the reach of these measures in the region.

I think it's a huge waste of our taxpayer money.

I cannot see why Mexico cannot simply put up its own fence with its border with Guatemala, and I think that the rest of that list is an even greater waste of money than at least the tangible effects of putting up a good fence between Mexico and Guatemala.

8 posted on 04/28/2008 6:38:36 AM PDT by snowsislander
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I agree with you, thanks I really appreciate it. I thought I must be hearing incorrectly, but couldn't find the station again. Tis a sad day for our Republic. Glad I'm old, but sorry about what I'm leaving my grandkids.
9 posted on 04/28/2008 7:21:25 AM PDT by deuteronlmy232 (So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him...)
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I just saw a thread on a report that Representative Duncan Hunter has asked the White House to remove its request for funding the Merida Initiative. The article is at Hunter to WH: Pull Mexico aid.

The Free Republic thread is at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014591/posts.

10 posted on 05/11/2008 5:54:07 PM PDT by snowsislander
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