Posted on 12/22/2005 12:24:27 PM PST by Bob Haran
Mexico thinks it has a right to criticize the U.S. plan to build a 700 mile wall on our southern border to keep out people entering our country illegally.
Mexican Foreign Secretary Lois Derbez says that Mexico has asked the governments of Central American nations along with Columbia and the Dominican Republic, "To join in the fight and to denounce the measure passed by the U.S. House of Representatives to build a wall," on our side of the border with Mexico.
I find it to be the height of arrogance for the foreign ministry of any nation to criticize what we do to secure our own borders. Frankly, it's none of their business. If we want to build a fence, a wall or a moat for that matter on our side of the border, that's our business, we don't need Mexico's or any other nations permission, the United States, is a sovereign nation.
As an American citizen, let me say this as diplomatically as I possibly can.
Your Excellency, The Foreign Secretary of Mexico, Lois Derbez, "Go to hell."
Bob Haran, Phoenix, AZ www.Bob-Haran.info
How much over budget did the San Diego fence run?
Big, nasty, and secure. Why?
Where will it be? The border is a slight bit longer than 700 miles.
Hmm...gee...I never thought of that. Guess a country that can build a Trans-Continental Railroad with 19th Century Technology, built a trans-continental highway system, the Panama canal, and puts satellites into space couldn't POSSIBLY build a friggin wall on it's border!
Wow. 
Mexico admits poor treatment of migrants
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13460590.htm
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged on Wednesday that the country uses some of the same methods in dealing with illegal migrants that it has criticized the United States for employing.
The admission comes as Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez called on Latin American countries to unite against a U.S. House of Representatives bill to toughen border enforcement.
The bill, which passed on Friday with a 239-182 vote, would make illegal entry a felony, and enlist military and local police to help stop illegal entrants.
But officials of Mexico's federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged that Mexico already employs both tactics in its own territory.
"As a matter of fact, (Mexico's) population law does include prison terms for illegally entering the country ... and this is something that has been the subject of constant complaints," said Mauricio Farah, a national inspector for the rights commission.
Jose Luis Soberanes, president of the rights commission, said that Mexico also uses many government agencies, such as the police and the military, to detain undocumented migrants, even though Mexican law technically doesn't allow that.
"One of the saddest national failings on immigration issues," Soberanes told a news conference, "is the contradiction in demanding that the North (the United States) respect migrants' rights, which we are not capable of guaranteeing in the South," along Mexico's border with Guatemala.
But Soberanes slammed another provision of the U.S. immigration bill that would build 700 miles of additional fences or walls along the U.S.-Mexico border, calling it "absurd."
Especially since the Mexicans are enforcing their own southern border ruthlessly.
We should keep one section open - through the alligator, cottonmouth moccasin and piranha infested swamp.
Ultimately, I think every mile of landed border should have a fence, but you have to start somewhere ;)
You ever think of that?
"A really dumb shit lawyer" is redundant. But I so far haven't seen this guy.
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