Posted on 10/03/2005 5:35:58 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Mexico City, Oct 3 (EFE).- Mexico's foreign minister said here Monday that building walls or fences will not solve the problem of illegal immigration, because the causes of the exodus of workers to find better opportunities abroad run very deep.
Luis Ernesto Derbez made his remarks at the opening ceremony for a conference of 11 Latin American and Caribbean nations with high rates of emigration. Derbez alluded to what occurred in recent days in Spain's North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, where hundreds of Subsaharan Africans tried to climb over the border fences and enter Spanish territory. "What happened in Melilla happens every day on other borders around the world. It's not an isolated event. This degradation of the human condition of the migrants is an unacceptable reality," he said.
On Thursday, five immigrants died when some 700 Africans stormed Ceuta's border fence with makeshift ladders trying to get across into Spanish territory.
Derbez said that "the governments of the world must confront the phenomenon of migration at its roots. In speaking of migration, we must speak about development, the creation of opportunities and about a frontal assault on poverty." The Mexican foreign minister said that immigration policy must have "as a prerequisite full respect for the civil liberties of whoever, for various reasons, decides to leave their country of origin." Derbez recalled that "400,000 persons emigrate from Mexico each year heading for the United States ... (because of) the inability of the Mexican economy to generate the dignified jobs that would allow them to remain in our country." The immigration phenomenon is of such a magnitude in Mexico that several small cities have seen up to 60 percent of their population head north.
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"Mexican foreign minister: Walls will not solve migration problem"
Sure wouldn't hurt much.
"Derbez is known as a whiner even in Mexico."
Dick derbez of illinois, mexico???
No, but land mines and gun towers might help to keep them in their own prison called Mexico.
Well fix whatever it is that is driving the people out..
Walls won't solve it... but a 'smart' minefield would.
Hell, I have never seen the man yet who could climb over a 60 foot smooth faced wall.
Self-deploying smart mines are cheaper.
Nah, I want to see an imposing 60 foot concrete wall.
How about: "Burning River of Gas?"
Who does this jerk think he is?
I seriously wonder if someday soon, we could be forced into house cleaning in the Americas.
"Derbez said that "the governments of the world must confront the phenomenon of migration at its roots."
even if it means we invade Mexico, remove you and your corrupt brethren?
Happens EVERY DAY ??? Think not! As I understand it, The 25'(or so) Concrete Barrier WALL Israel put up does a rather fine job at keeping the Palestinian Trash on "IT's" side ....!
Thanks for the advice, Senor Foreign Minister. Claymore's, bouncing betties and 50 cals it is. We'll only take a mile from the border into your so called country as the DMZ (dead man's zone).
All handled best by individuals and very poorly by governments.
No No No....
Annex Mexico, develop their oil fields, sell all the cool coastline to the rich and famous, and call it the 51st State....
Save me some Baja coastline!!!
That would take months or years to erect.
A minefield could be up in 48 hours.
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