Posted on 12/15/2005 8:39:33 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
MONTERREY, Mexico – President Vicente Fox on Wednesday criticized the United States' decision to strengthen its border security and complete a wall along the two countries common border calling it "disgraceful and shameful."
"This situation we're seeing, a disgraceful and shameful moment where walls are being built, security systems are being reinforced, and human and labor rights are being violated more and more, won't protect the economy of the United States," Fox said. On Monday, a U.S. federal judge lifted the final legal barrier allowing for the completion of a border fence along the Mexico-California border. Plans call for two additional fences running parallel to the existing steel barrier, with sensors and cameras tracking any movement. The fences will run along the final 3 1/2 miles (5.6 kilometers) of the border before it meets the Pacific Ocean.
Last month, President George W. Bush said he was providing border agents with cutting-edge technology like overhead surveillance drones and infrared cameras. In October, Bush signed a $32 billion homeland security bill for 2006 that included 1,000 additional Border Patrol agents.
"It would be hard to know what would happen to the economy of the United States if it wasn't for the enormous contribution, the productivity, the quality of work of our countrymen in that country," Fox said.
Speaking in the border city of Reynosa, across from Hidalgo, Texas, Fox said he remained hopeful the United States will approve a temporary guest worker program next year.
Bush has proposed a temporary guest worker program, but that plan envisions having most workers return home after up to six years working in the United States. Mexico is pushing for more permanent, legal residence for many of the millions of undocumented Mexicans living and working in the United States.
"What the United States needs is a young (work) force, energy, quality, productivity, which is what keeps that economy competitive and the only way it can stop losing jobs to Asia, to China," Fox added.
Fox also said Mexico, the United States and Canada need to work together to protect the region's jobs to remain competitive against other trade blocks around the world. He said his government will continue to insist on the protection of the rights of Mexicans working abroad.
Fox was in Reynosa supervising the Paisano Program, a government effort to clamp down on corrupt public officials and welcoming Mexican migrants coming home for the holidays.
Since taking office in 2000, Fox has traveled each year to Mexico's northern border to greet the wave of returning migrants, both legal and illegal. His government has posted more than 1,000 independent observers at major crossings and installed hotlines for migrants to report abuse.
Can't comment on the protection of our economy, but the action will keep the American prison population stable.
Fox is trying to avoid the full Mussolini.
After all, he doesn't work for us. Bush works for us and Fox works for the Mexicans. The rest of the world isn't SUPPOSED to like Bush. I'm always suspect of presidents who are so well-liked in the rest of the world.....shows that he's working more for THEM and less for us.
Self-serving, hypocritical remarks from this asshat only strengthen American resolve to send them all back.
Fox can kiss my butt. Deport the illegals and mine the border.
LKQ
What's "disgraceful" and "shameful" is having a country that's so cr*ppy that most of its citizens want to leave it. Mr. Fox needs to clean his own house, and shut the heck up.
I do not understand how a wall along our border can be viewed as harmful to "human and labor rights". NOT having a wall along our border is harmful to human and labor rights; American human and labor rights, it seems.
I wonder how many Americans the Mexican border patrol has interecpted sneaking into their country across the border in the last year.
What an idiot!
It's shameful to protect our borders after 9/11 but it's okay to jail a 20yr old for getting drunk in Tijuana and getting into a fight, requiring bribes of the corrupt Mexican police to even let the kid see the light of day again.
How could he object to our insistence that his citizens enter the country legally, with all the protections of the law?
Why would he insist that they continue to cross on foot, dying in the desert, just to have no legal rights when they arrive where they are going?
and we should care what Fox says because???
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
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Here's a novel thought Senor Fox, create an economy in your own lousy country so that your largest export isn't illegal alien slave labor and then maybe your citizens will stay in their own #$%$^& country and quit invading ours.........I know. I'm dreaming.
Old Vicente's just going to have to take the plunge - accepting the risk that Mexico's old money is going to suffer a lot of economic disruption from loss of corruption opportunities - and pledge to allow American citizens full economic rights in Mexico. When he does, the Mexican economy just might turn around and strengthen to the point that illegal immigration stops being an issue.
I wonder how the increased border security is going to affect the mexican ecconomy. Fewer illegals sending money to mexico. (and more of that money staying in the USA)
Here's a suggestion to ol' Vicente: clean up the corruption in your own damned government, you idiot. What you're seeing now is just the start of what's coming for you and your maggot-infested abomination you call Mexico.
Exactly. Try overstaying your vacation in Mexico or your visa and see how fast they lock you up for a very long time.
Can't we just invade the country and annex it once and for all? I mean really, how many times have we bailed out their economy........not to mention paying out benefits by the billions to their "citizens" who insist on breaking the law and coming here illegally.
Seriously, Mexico is slowly draining us dry, so just take them the hell over. It would be cheaper in the long run anyway.
If Mexican workers are so wonderful, why isn't Mexico's economy flourishing and keeping them employed in their own country? Could it possibly be due to an endemic corruption problem in Mexico? Fox needs to get his own house in order - that would fix the immigration problem. His constant carping about U.S. policy won't get it done.
Amen to that - a woman at work asked me "aren't you ashamed that the rest of the world sees him as a cowboy?"
I answered - "Hell, no. I'm from Texas, and I like cowboys."
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