Posted on 07/21/2005 9:40:20 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Mexican standoff?
By Dimitri Vassilaros
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, July 22, 2005
The only thing more disturbing than Jorge Castaneda's testimony about illegal immigration was the lack of outrage from the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Castaneda had been the Mexican foreign minister in the current Vicente Fox administration. He now is a New York University professor and independent candidate for president of Mexico.
Opponents of illegal immigration are incensed because Castaneda said the United States cannot secure its southern border without Mexico's blessing. And that it will not have Mexico's blessing until America agrees to a series of almost non-negotiable demands.
"Unless and until both governments bite the bullet and reach an understanding on an all-encompassing joint border security initiative, with adequate funding and infrastructure, the violence and criminal activity at the border will remain unabated," he told the senators. Unilateral measures relating to immigration that are adopted by the U.S. without consultation and agreement with Mexico are doomed to fail, he said.
"If there is no cooperation from the source country on either a guest worker program, or an earned regularization scheme, I cannot see how the U.S. on its own will be able to deal with the enormous operational complexities involved."
Castaneda's testimony of July 12 is available online at: http://foreign.senate.gov/
"They constantly talk of respect but they do not respect our borders at all," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "I am 100 percent certain he is articulating views publicly that Mexican officials hold privately.
"When will we wake up and smell the coffee? We are not obligated to absorb the people that they won't find jobs for in their own country."
Mr. Stein believes Mexico needs tough love for its own good.
Mexico's refusal to stop the stealth invasion..
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
There, that's better.
Ping
It's time to put a heavy-armored division or two on our southern border... and use it.
Time to establish a 5 mile deep no-mans-land on THEIR side of the border. The Republicans better get on this hermetically sealed border soon.
As an aside,have you been following the BRAC as it pertains to Oceana?
But nobody listens to me, anyway. Just a geezer living in the Peoples Republic of Oregon. Or, should I say, "Republica del Norte ?"
Do you have any word/rumor on Oceana?
Well. I'm a geezer too and I think you are right in your assessment.
The term "MEXICAN STANDOFF" has been misused again.
The term origionated in the SW US back in the 1800's.
When two cowboys got into a fist fight one would beat the other and walk away the winner.
The looser, not wanting to admit defeat refered to it as a "mexican stand off."
So the real term means HE GOT BEAT!
I live in southwestern Pennsylvania and I think the Pittsburgh Tribune Review is one of America's best newspapers.I'm also a big Pirate's fan,so what do I know!:)
Here's a link about Oceana:A crash landing for OceanaYour tagline got me thinking about it.I grew up near Oceana and will always remember "the sound of freedom".Even as a kid I understood how important that sound was and hoped it would never go away.Back then,only the stupid tourists complained.
But what do I know, anyway? Just an old geezer longing for the America I used to know.
ping
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Senator Richard C. Luger, Chairman
http://foreign.senate.gov/
Committee Hearings Schedule - 109th Congress
First Session - 2005
http://foreign.senate.gov/hearing.html
North American Cooperation on the Border
HEARING before the COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, UNITED STATES SENATE, ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Presiding: Senator Richard Lugar
http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/2005/hrg050712a.html
The [not so] Honorable Jorge Castaneda
Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University
Former Foreign Minister, Mexico City, Mexico
Testimony:
http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2005/CastanedaTestimony050712.pdf
Ah yes, Mexico, our great friend and neighbor to the south.
A third world crap hole that refuses to take care of its own people.
It is invading the United States with uneducated masses with little more then the ability to make babies and pick fruit.
And our govt and its officials refuse to do anything to protect our country.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
Why should they? Our stupid politicians have given them every thing but the kitchen sink. Mass insanity in DC.
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