US-Mexico border wall would be 'disgraceful': Fox

Reuters ^ | December 14, 2005

[A. Pole]

Good fences make good neighbors!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

A wall is better than carpet bombing your turd world country to dust, wouldn't you think Vincente?

[Wiz]

We've got a plan something that would be better than what Israel has, but sure the cost is what would be a headache for us.

[highlander_UW]

Does he mean disgraceful as in the Mexican government publishing a handbook to help people break the laws of the US?

[reagan_fanatic]

Dear Mr. Fox:

What the United States does on its own property is the business of the United States and the United States alone. We do not need nor do we desire your input on this matter.

If you had lived up to your own obligations and done your part to stem the flood of ILLEGAL immigration into my country, we would not have found ourselves at this point, now would we? So take some not so friendly advise and go mind your own damned business for a change and let the United States do the job you apparently are unable to.

- Reagan Fanatic

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Remember his expatriates line up every Friday at US payphones to wire back 17 Gazillion un-taxed dollars back to Mexico.

Seems like the mexican economy is based on the three legged stool of oil, corruption, and illegal immigration. Take away any of those three legs and the whole thing falls down. Seems that way to me, anyway.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Remember his expatriates line up every Friday at US payphones to wire back 17 Gazillion un-taxed dollars back to Mexico.

From Fox's point of view, that is absolutely the issue. Without remissions from the US, the Mexican economy would collapse.

I mean, collapse even further.

[Paulus Invictus]

Message to Presidente Fox: Arriba con el muro y fuera los ilegales! Entendido?

[ichabod1]

I wish someone would get up in his face. He should not be allowed in this country.

[ichabod1]

Fences keep people out. Cameras and sensors record them when they're already in. Then someone has to go get them, process them, give them room and board, and probably end up turning them loose with a "notice to appear". A fence ends all that. Sometimes the low tech solution is better than the high tech solution.

We have a saying in the computer biz. Sometimes the best answer to bandwith is a van full of tapes barreling down the highway at 60 miles per hour. I'll explain that if need be.

[ichabod1]

It was hardly a war for all the space in history it's gotten. A seige and a skirmish. OK, maybe San Jacinto rose to the level of a battle. But it wasn't much of a war from either perspective.

[ichabod1]

I don't think Chertoff is good for much either. Bush hasn't gotten the best and the brightest for that position. I wish that department had never been formed. Pork barrel. Black hole of money.

[ncountylee]

When you toss a rock into a pack of dogs, the one hit yelps the loudest.

Right Fox?

[gubamyster]

ping

[upcountryhorseman]

What's "disgraceful" is the Mexican Government's refusal
to do anything about their citizens' exodus to the north.

[dennisw]

Goood one!

Fence for Mexico border

[hripka]

That's nothing, they love to meddle in our affairs, even giving away Mexican text books to our schools:

Then why did the LA school system let those books in?

[Dante3]

Fox is disgusting and dishonest.

[WatchingInAmazement]

All That's nothing, they love to meddle in our affairs, even giving away Mexican text books to our schools: Each of Mexico's 47 consulates in the United States has a mandate to introduce Mexican textbooks into schools with significant Hispanic populations. The Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles showered nearly 100,000 textbooks on 1,500 schools in the L.A. Unified School District this year alone... The Mexican sixth-grade history book celebrates the troops who fought the Americans during the Mexican-American War. But "all the sacrifices and heroism of the Mexican people were useless," recounts the chronicle. The "Mexican people saw the enemy flag wave at the National Palace." The war's consequences were "disastrous," notes the primer: "To end the occupation, Mexico was obligated to sign the treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo," by which the country lost half its territory to the United States. Study exercises that include discovering "what happened to your territory when the U.S. invaded" don't clarify things. The textbook concludes by celebrating Mexican patriotic symbols: the flag, the currency and the national anthem. newzjunkey

Thanks for posting this. I had heard about it and everyone should! Mexican consulate also gives these text books out in our prisons.