Posted on 05/12/2005 6:47:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox said Thursday his government will formally protest recent U.S. immigration reforms, including the decision to extend walls along the border and make it harder for illegal migrants to get driver's licenses.
Fox didn't give details of Mexico's plan, but officials in his administration have raised the possibility of taking their case to the United Nations or other international organizations.
"We think it is useless to pursue walls, barriers, the use of force and violence," he said.
Speaking to foreign reporters later Thursday, Interior Minister Santiago Creel said Mexican officials would meet with the U.S. government before deciding what kind of action to take.
The new U.S. provisions threaten to unravel recently patched relations between the United States and Mexico. They include requiring states to verify that people who apply for a driver's license are in the country legally.
They also make it harder for migrants to gain amnesty, and easier to override environmental laws to build a barrier along the Mexican border in California.
U.S. lawmakers argued the bill was necessary to protect the United States from terrorists.
President Bush and Fox began their administrations as close friends, but soon parted ways over the U.S.-led initiative in Iraq and the United States' failure to take up a migration accord that would have let more migrants cross legally into the United States.
Relations improved after Bush introduced a scaled-back migration plan that would have allowed Mexicans with U.S. job offers to work temporarily in the United States. But the proposal has stalled.
Fox said Mexico would fight the new initiatives by presenting "a formal and firm complaint against the option that has nothing to do with the harmonious development of relations between the United States and Mexico."
Atencion Sr. Creel, falte mi asno pendejo!
Why are we building walls? It's a whole lot cheaper to just lay mines along the border.
Take it up with the Oil for Food crowd, Vince baby.
y Sr. Fox tambien
Did any laws pass which recommend violence or the use of force? I didn't think so.
sonido corto y metálico...
I simply cannot believe the nuts of the Mexican Gov't. Why aren't we complaining about their interference in our internal affairs.
Oh, I forgot, W and Vicente have this special relationship which, unfortunately, is one a one way deal - Mexico remains corrupt and able to export it's economic and social problems Northward while we sit back and take it.
Useless Huh, FOX? It'll be like the movie "Dawn of the Dead." "Hey Billy Bob! Tellem' they'd better keep them heads down....yuk yuk yuk...yeeee hawwwwwww!"
Works in Korea.
I wish Bush would protect our sovereignty. It's getting to the point where he needs to be impeached.
Maybe it's time we started writing to Mexican officials. The Mexican officials won't like it and will complain to our government. Maybe we'll get the attention of our elected dictators that way.
Stick, ram, or insert that "formal protest" up your ying-yang.
Cordially Yours,
Dreammmaker
Presidente Fox, besa mi asno!
Don't lay it all on Bush, if we go that way you better take the whole damn Congress along too.
The democrats are just as responsible.
What an arrogant a hole. Since when does the President of the 3rd world cesspool called Mexico decide our laws. But I guess it's better than working to bring the Mexican society into the 21st century. Paying living wages, and cleaning up the garbage.
Who does this arrogant putz think he is?
Once we've got it settled we've no dispute where the property lines lie, I don't dictate my neighbor's fence, nor he, mine.
No, Mr. Fox, the time to sputter and whine will be when Mexican workers are forbidden to send money orders home to prop up their families and by extension, your economy. I don't see that happening ever, so shut up and stop acting entitled to export your poverty and crime to the U.S.!
The UN will probably start sanctions against us........
No it's getting to the point where American citizens should stop looking the other way and not frequent businesses that hire illegals. And DEMAND that the local INS and PD's enforce the laws already on the books. And when you buy the next item at a store, just remember some of the tax you pay is going to provide medical care for illegals.
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