Fox Says Walls Along Border Must Be Razed

Washington Post ^ | 3/17/2005 | Kevin Sullivan

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

MEXICO CITY, March 16 - President Vicente Fox said Wednesday that walls along the U.S.-Mexico border, such as one approved last month by the U.S. House of Representatives, "must be demolished" because they are "discriminatory" and "against freedom."

"No country that is proud of itself should build walls...it doesn't make any sense," Fox said at a news conference ahead of last week's meeting in Crawford, Tex., with President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Border security and immigration will be main topics of the leaders' discussion, along with trade and commerce.

Fox did not specifically mention last month's House vote to waive environmental regulations and allow completion of a fence, known in Mexico as the "Tortilla Wall," along the border south of San Diego. But asked about the fence, Fox said, "We are convinced that walls don't work."

[SmithL]

Lost in translation:
The wall should be raised.

[JZelle]

We'll be a third world country soon enough. Why rush it?

[bigsigh]

I think we should send the walls a memo and tell them to stop discriminating.

[TheBattman]

Exactly what freedom his Fox referring to? I thought that land that is part of the US can have whatever the US wants built on it. Fox is free to build walls on his side of the border too---it's called freedom.

Fox is NO friend of the US. The fact that Bush is still coddling him really concerns me.

Exactly what does Fox have on GW that keeps him kowtowing to him?

[End Times Sentinel]

Walls unto themselves might not.  But a combination of helicopter gunships, snipers, landmines, and mortar teams sure would.  Keep your garbage on your side of the fence, Vincente.

Owl_Eagle

"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"

-Hillary Clinton

(Yes, she really said that

Peggy Noonan

The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

[skeeter]

Yeah, America need lectures on 'freedom' from Mexico.

[EagleUSA]

"No country that is proud of itself should build walls...it doesn't make any sense," Fox said at a news conference.
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Yeah, they might actually keep illegal criminals out of America -- now, we cannot have that!!!!

[Victor]

Excuse me, Senor Fox....Last time I looked, Mexico is not the 51st state of the USA.

I cannot understand how this jerk jumps to the conclusion that Mexican citizens are American citizens and deserving of all the rights and freedoms of AMERICANS.

[Phsstpok]

Tear down the walls...















Replace them with mine fields, automated free fire zones and razor wire.

[marktwain]

This, at first glance, seems pretty brazen. The president of Mexico telling us how we must conduct our affairs. Perhaps we should tell him that he must let an unlimited number of Guatemalans, Colombians, and any other nationalities into Mexico without permission.

Maybe this is mostly for domestic consumption, but it sure isn't winning him any points north of the border.

[srm913]

Fox is afraid that if the stream of illegals coming to the USA and sending remittances is halted, it might dry up the money supply. He is unwilling to find Mexican solutions to a Mexican problem.

[KeyesPlease]

I don't think a fence is going to put a dent in Fox's poverty smuggling operation.

[cotton1706]

Of course it's discriminatory. So is the fence in my yard, so is the Great Wall of China, so was the Maginot Line, so were the fortifications of coastal Europe in WWII, all to stop invasion.

[tfecw]

that or tolerance camp.

[VRWCmember]

that walls along the U.S.-Mexico border, such as one approved last month by the U.S. House of Representatives, "must be demolished" because they are "discriminatory" and "against freedom."

For that to be true, Fox's Mexican government must be a repressive regime that oppresses its people whose only avenue for freedom is to escape to the U.S. Talk about dim-witted self deprecation on his part.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Sorry, can't seem to get the link to story right.

[TXBSAFH]

There is a poem fro Robert Frost, Mending Walls. It says, "Good fences make good neighbors."

[newfreep]

Un-frickin-believable!

Build 'em higher, stronger and more deadly!!!!

[CzarNicky]

I'll tell you what Foxy when you stop sending illegals up we'll tear down our walls.