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Posted on 10/03/2005 5:36:08 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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No, but land mines and gun towers might help to keep them in their own prison called Mexico.
Well, since walls won't change anything, according to him, then he shouldn't mind if we GO AHEAD AND BUILD THEM.
Automated machine gun nests with overlapping firezones, infrared and tectonic sensors for guidance. Just have the border patrol occasionally drop off additional ammo.
Isn't technology great ?
I was thinking electric fences, but that would work too.
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I think that idea is just dandy.
It wont? Well dont mind us Senior Prime Minister Derbez if we do something to try. I noticed those books the Mexican Government printed on how to sneak accross the border doesnt help either.
Mexican foreign minister found to be clinically insane.
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Senor Derbez- the root of the migration problem is that
your country is a s**thole. Do something about it.
Walls won't stop those who dig tunnels clear from Mexico to a house in California but it will be a big help overall.
If I didn't know any better, I'd swear I was reading an American politican trying to push Nafta, Gatt, and whatever else.
I have to hand it to these people, they sure have their schtick down cold.
Yes, figure out why the people want to flee your craphole for better opportunities.
Ok so he admits it is a problem! Major breakthrough!
I'm thinkin' I'm gettin' cheated heah!
I want a list of Mexican & American laws I can break and that they will ignore if I play some looterama like illegal aliens do...
Not enforcing federal, state, and local laws and income tax, fraud, faked IDs will simply tell American citizens that the laws are not applied equally to American citizens and that scoffing at these so-called "minor things" is no big deal...
Therefore Americans will start going underground and sharpening their wits and #2 pencils...
- No borders?
- No taxes!
Hope we don't run into any of those 'tunnelers', but the sharp pencil will protect us, lol!
Seriously, Mexico doesn't respect laws anywhere. People retire, find a nice village near the seashore in Mexico and buy a hacienda. They live the life of ease, able to afford a maid and gardener.
Then, one day the Mexican government confiscates their house and there is nothing they can do about it!
Travis - your top Mex-US photo looks like the one I've seen used on FNC & CNN several times
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