Posted on 09/04/2005 9:24:32 AM PDT by Embraer2004
Mexico ready to send aid for Katrina relief
As U.S. authorities continue to evacuate areas of the Gulf coast, there are still no Mexicans reported dead.
Wire services September 04, 2005
Mexico offered the United States two Mexican navy ships, 15 amphibious vehicles, two helicopters and 15 heavy trucks on Saturday to help in the relief effort following Hurricane Katrina.
President Vicente Fox said the government had donated US1 million an amount matched by a private Mexican aid foundation for hurricane relief efforts.
"Mexico is a friend (of the United States), and in tough moments, good friends stand together," Fox said. "You can count on our support."
Fox also offered health brigades and rescue teams, including the rescue teams that dug survivors out of Mexico City's devastating 1985 earthquake that killed an estimated 10,000 people.
Fox estimated that about 145,000 Mexicans lived in the broad, multi-state area affected by Katrina, and that about 10,000 lived in New Orleans.
The government has channeled US175,000 to set up consular offices and communications links to help Mexican victims. Fifteen additional consular officials will be dispatched as well.
Meanwhile, Fox has urged Mexican residents to obey U.S. authorities. On Friday, he said that U.S. officials had agreed not to prosecute any undocumented migrants seeking aid.
"We have agreed with the government of the United States that those who were not documented at the time will not be subject to any pressure or persecution whatsoever," Fox said Friday afternoon.
"In this way, they can receive help from the American authorities, they can approach the authorities to point out what they've lost and, above all, to ask for support."
There have not have been reports of any Mexican deaths, but 87 citizens were reported missing.
The government also plans to provide Mexican victims with food, water and shelter and allowing them to call relatives in Mexico.
The government will also assume the travel costs of those who want to return to Mexico, according to the Foreign Relations Secretariat.
It won't surprise me one bit if those cruise ships end up trashed just like the Super Dome was.
The help by closing the damn border!
He will get the money back 10 fold.
Many of the "displaced people" weren't working to begin with, and it has nothing to do with Mexicans "taking their jobs." It was the welfare mentality. Get a clue.
So what you're saying is that instead of displaced U.S. citizens getting those jobs, the illegals will get them?
Oh joy...
Anyone using illegals to rebuild homes, is probably also cutting costs by not building them up to code.
Mexico can do the most help by taking back a million illegals.
Free up some housing, jobs, hospital beds for displaced US citizens.
How come hurricanes are always Anglosized -whitened up? How come they're never called Hurricane Al Sharpton or Hurricane Pepe Gonzales? Think how much harder it would be to blame natural disasters on white Presidents if affirmative action programs included the naming of hurricanes.
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George Oh Well is the distinguished Íñigo Alonso de Montoya y Pérez de las Altas Cumbres professor of Illegal Immigration, Surreptitious River Crossings, and American Social Security Benefits at Poncho Villa University in Sonora, Mexico.
'Mexico offered the United States two Mexican navy ships,'
Can you imagine the size of the jumper cables to get these babies going?
(Okay, I know I'm bad --- off to hit yard sales to help a buddy in LA who lost his shop get replacement tools)
Maybe somebody oughta check our mothball fleet to see if we have a couple of ships missing.
The "nation" is not poor. The nations' people are poor. Big difference.
JMHO
FMCDH(BITS)
If Vicente really wants to help us out he'll make his own country a better place to live.
If anything is a disgrace it is the border issue. Many of the roofers and laborers over here are Mexican. I would say that 85% are illegal.
I couldn't agree more.
BTTT!
That was my thought as well. I have been attacked for speaking my mind a few times.
actually, katrina is a name used in mexico for both a wealthy woman and the grim reaper, so there is you de-white-nization.
"actually, katrina is a name used in mexico for both a wealthy woman and the grim reaper, so there is you de-white-nization."
How about Hurricane Jesus? That's a pretty popular name in Mexico too, right?
No doubt all will be loaded down with illegals that need their civil and human rights tended to.
Reading my mind.
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