Posted on 12/14/2005 11:54:37 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Mexican President Vicente Fox denounced as "disgraceful and shameful" on Wednesday a proposal to build a high-tech wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants.
Concerned about the huge numbers of illegal immigrants streaming across the border and worried it could be an entry point for terrorists, a U.S. lawmaker has proposed building two parallel steel and wire fences running from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Coast. But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said a wall running the length of a border would cost too much.
Mexico has expressed indignation at the idea.
Fox, speaking in Tamaulipas state across the border from Texas, said such extreme security measures would violate immigrants' rights.
"The disgraceful and shameful construction of walls, the increasing enforcement of security systems and increasing violation of human rights and labor rights will not protect the economy of the United States," he said.
He again called for the easing of U.S. immigration laws to benefit millions of undocumented Mexican fruit pickers, waiters and janitors working north of the border, a complex bilateral issue that has at times strained relations with Washington.
"I hope that next year we finally get an immigration agreement," Fox told immigrants crossing the border back to Mexico to spend the holidays with their families.
President George W. Bush pledged recently to step up the use of unmanned flying drones, fences and technology to tighten border security. A 14-mile (23-km) fence south of San Diego has already slashed illegal crossings there, officials say.
Each year, more than 1 million undocumented migrants try to slip across the rivers and deserts on the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) U.S.-Mexico border in search of work in the United States.
Many die en route in the searing desert heat.
Mr. Fox took office with so much promise. Mr. Fox and his party have been such a disappointment.
pinging you, gub.
Fox, you dumb ass. A fence on my property line would be a "disgraceful and shameful" too?
Fox is right. It would accentuate his shameful and disgraceful leadership policies for Mexico.
And how much did that last terror attack cost us?
How much do ILLEGALS cost us each year?
How much could be saved if we had a wall?
Fox/Bush/Chertoff suck.
I had something more in the line of the Great Wall of China in mind....NOW THERES A WALL. We put one of those babies up on the border with gurad towers every few hundred yards. It helped the Chinese keep out the barbarians.
Build the wall/fence and patrol it as a humanitarian measure.
We think it is an excellent idea.
I'd be curious to know what Fox's comments are on the brutal treatment of "undocumented immigrants" into Mexico from central and south america, entering Mexico from the south...
Mark
US-Mexico border wall would be 'disgraceful': Fox
----In other words, I don't give a damn what Fox wants or what he thinks of a wall at the border. They need to enforce the laws that are already in place and quit talking about it and build the wall, before more of them trickle/flood in.
Hey, bilingual education is important! It's better than just forcing kids to learn one language...
That way, they can be illiterate in two languages at once! Think of how that will help their self esteem!
Mark
How did the idea that Fox is a sensible person ever get started?
Yup. I agree with you completely. And I hope that is exactly what the US does, without demur. Two big walls, with turrets. This makes perfect sense.
Remember Bre'r Bear? How he originally intended to deal to Bre'r Rabbit? (I can barely remember, way back into childhood). Bre'r Bear had a whole bunch of good ideas for dispatching Bre'r Rabbit, all of which would have worked just fine. (Like your wall, for instance)
Bre'r Rabbit used his communication skills to dissuade Bre'r Bear from his sensible purpose. And it worked.
Just like Fox is doing now.
What a gift those arrogant Mexican fools have given us. We need to get a hand on a few copies of those.
Does Chertoff gthink the cost of protecting Iraq is OK .
I listened to Chertoff and he is just singing the party line of Bush,which is, "What immigration Problem".
Fox is a P.O.S.
Remember Bre'r Bear? How he originally intended to deal to Bre'r Rabbit? (I can barely remember, way back into childhood). Bre'r Bear had a whole bunch of good ideas for dispatching Bre'r Rabbit, all of which would have worked just fine
---Oh Yeah. I remember that story. You know this means we are gettin old, don't you? LOL.
Have a great day friend.
Lauranne
What would be disgraceful is for our elitist leaders to continue to ignore the threat immigration poses to this country.
Build a fence. Close the border. Deport illegals. Now.
I don't recall that fox being asked for his opinion.
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