Posted on 05/14/2005 10:21:08 PM PDT by FairOpinion
MEXICO CITY - Mexico will send a diplomatic letter to the United States protesting the extension of a wall along the U.S.-California border, officials said Friday.
Ruben Aguilar, a spokesman for President Vicente Fox, said the president would also continue to pressure the U.S. government to approve a migration accord that would allow more migrants to work legally north of the border.
President Bush proposed a temporary work program last year, but it has stalled amid opposition in Congress.
Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said Thursday that Fox had instructed him to send the diplomatic letter with the message that the wall's construction was "unacceptable and not a solution."
A corrugated metal wall — dubbed the "Tortilla Wall" — goes all around the edge of Tijuana, but a second and more substantial layer of barriers that was built behind the first one that is incomplete and, among other things, does not stretch out into the Pacific. The measures passed this week allow for the completion of that second layer of barriers.
The upcoming letter will be Mexico's first formal protest of new U.S. immigration regulations that require states to verify that people who apply for a driver's license are in the country legally.
The rules 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.
The new provisions were signed by Bush on Wednesday and threaten to unravel recently patched relations between the United States and Mexico.
"We hope it doesn't make things worse than they already are, which is the obvious anger that building walls is not the way to resolve things along the border," Derbez said.
Fox and Bush were close friends after their elections in 2000, but relations between the two deteriorated after Fox opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq and Bush failed to pursue a migration accord amid terrorism fears.
Derbez said the Mexican government would continue to support the use of the country's consular identification cards, issued by the Mexican government to migrants living abroad.
Many migrants use the cards for official business, like opening bank accounts, boarding planes and getting a driver's license.
Some in the United States have argued the cards help people move illegally in the country, and they have lobbied U.S. cities and businesses not to accept them.
Vicente Fox has had this attitude ever since he took office. He's grousing because the U.S. has the nerve to take action trying to prevent all of Vicente's criminals from locating to the U.S.
We have enough of our own homegrown scum, Vicente. We don't need to import any more from you.
Ok, what is it?
Like the Democrats these people should just shut up and they may have a chance to win. But they are to stupid to do it. I am glad they do not get it.
Really!
Here's how Presidente Fox signs his web page:
Vicente Fox Quesada
Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos
They're much like the United States, apparently, only they're Mexican. I think I heard once that Panama's full name is also the United States of Panama.
Good letter. Where are you going to send it to? Is there an e-mail to send something like this to?
I bet if mexico let us build a few refineries down there and give jobs to tens of thousands of Mexicans, Fox might reconsider.
However for absence of that, we should TAX all money that leaves the US for Mexico. Set up some of those western union shops in all major cities and have the illegals send money to their kin back home through that.
My Dobermans would love to play with someone who violated the sanctity of their front yard.
ping
Also ask Vicente why he doesn't let people from Guatemala pour into his country if he has such a beef about our border control. We're only doing what he does to Guatemalans.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
Talk about bull-on-steroids pair of huevos.
Sorry Luis Ernie D, tell your boss it is the only solution.
Deal with it.
Vincente Fox is not a Fox, he is a RAT! I would spit tobacco juice on this ratbastard just like our friend Mr. Smith did to Jane Fonda.
See my tagline!
So much buttwipe, so little time...
Someone please get the return address,
I've got some comments for anyone protesting our self defense.
I guess Genrmany threatened France in 1939 because France put of the Maginot Line?
"We hope it doesn't make things worse than they already are, which is the obvious anger that building walls is not the way to resolve things along the border," Derbez said.
Sorry about the new laws. Mr. Derbez. Please send my regards to Vicente.
"Dear Senor Fox,
I have taken your communication under advisement and thoughtfully reviewed the same, extending it all due serious consideration.
Upon reflection, it is my sincere belief that you are out of your #$$%@$%%& mind. I fully hope to extend the wall along our entire southern border and repatriate the criminal inflitrators you have so ill-advisedly encouraged to violate my nation's borders.
Further, I expect you to return into U.S. custody each and every low-life renagade who has taken the life of an American citizen while having violated our borders.
Finally, I am sending the "Republic" of Mexico a bill to cover expenses incurred for housing Mexican criminals, constructing said wall, providing medical treatment to Mexican nationals, and to cover the costs of increased border security due to the actions and inactions of your government.
I fully anticipate you will be willing to consider my requests with all due seriousness and render the requested services and payment. Failure on your part to do so will necessitate the United States of America resuming that little mattter we mutually entered into back in 1846.
Have a great day.
Su amigo, Senior President Bush"
I would like to see Bush send the above message to Fox.
Think he might consider it??
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