Posted on 12/23/2005 7:26:39 AM PST by ma bell
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government, angered by a U.S. proposal to extend a wall along the border to keep out migrants, pledged Tuesday to block the plan and organize an international campaign against it. Facing a growing tide of anti-immigrant sentiment north of the border, the Mexican government has taken out ads urging Mexican workers to denounce rights violations in the United States. It also is hiring an American public relations firm to improve its image and to counter growing U.S. concerns about immigration. Mexican President Vicente Fox denounced the U.S. measures, passed Friday by the House of Representatives, as "shameful" and Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez echoed those complaints on Tuesday. "Mexico is not going to bear, it is not going to permit, and it will not allow a stupid thing like this wall," Derbez said. "What has to be done is to raise a storm of criticism, as is already happening, against this," he said, promising to turn the international community against the plan. Some sections of the U.S.-Mexico border are marked by fences, but the United States already has erected walls along some heavily trafficked stretches in southern Arizona and California. Those walls, often made of 10-foot-high sections of military surplus steel, typically run several miles. The proposal has unleashed a tide of ill-feelings in Mexico, where editorial pages are dominated by cartoons of Uncle Sam putting up walls bearing anti-Mexican messages. Many Mexicans, especially those who have spent time working in the United States, feel the proposal is a slap in the face to those who work hard and contribute to the U.S. economy. Fernando Robledo, 42, of the western state of Zacatecas, says the proposals could stem migration and disrupt families by breaking cross-border ties. Robledo, whose son and mother are U.S. citizens, predicted the measure "would unleash conflict within the United States" as small businesses fail for lack of workers. He said many Mexicans felt betrayed by the anti-immigrant sentiment. "We learned to believe in the United States. We have a binational life," he said of Zacatecas, a state that has been sending migrants north for more than a century. "It isn't just a feeling of rejection. It's against what we see as part of our life, our culture, our territory."
Vicente doesn't have a thing to worry about. Our gutless wonders in the senate will not allow anything to happen that strengthens the USA.
You are so right. And they don't let anyone off the hook. They let that PR guy for Vincente Fox spout off a bit, but then countered it with the truth from Congressman Tancredo.
Easy to do for reporters so inclined.
My favorite Lou Dobbs moment was in 1999, I believe, when in the middle of his show Rick Kaplan broke into it to show a usless Clinton photo-op speech and Lou Dobbs had his producer cut back to his show.
May they wash their manos of us forever!
Good, good, good.
Mexican plan for invasion sparks anger in U.S.
Maybe they will even get so angry that they will cut off our supply of pot, cocaine and mephanphetimine.
If I build a fence on MY property, I don't really give a rat's ass if my neighbors like it or not...
Just like the democrats here, they don't understand that they get to make the rules governing THIS county when they start winning elections in THIS country!
So what are you going to do about it hotshot, lob Nachos at it??? Idiot - if your own country wasn't such a smelly cesspool, your people wouldn't want to leave...You suck, Mexico sucks.....
"Mexico is not going to bear, it is not going to permit, and it will not allow a stupid thing like this wall," Derbez said.
What are they gonna do????
the tamali cart drivers are going to go on strike, probably...
BTTT
ok..........personal question...how do you post pictures, and change the font?
In other news, a collection of masked housebreakers and burglars
picketed the Qwik-set deadbolt company this morning.
"How are we supposed to make a living if we can't break & enter?" read one sign.
That was my initial reaction, too. But after thinking about it, all Vincente needs to do is to tell the illegals community in the US not to work construction ... then there will be no one to build it!!! :-0
I'm not all that sure the Mexicans have anything to say in this matter.
I'm not all that sure the Mexicans have anything to say in this matter.
Here is a link to lots of good information about how to do things with html:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1011945/posts
Pretty funny they get mad at us not letting them break the law.
Basically, they believe they have a right to be here illegally.
Mexico has never been our friend.
I always reminded of how close Mexico was to opening up a front against the US during WWII for Germany. But for Pearl Harbor coming when it did, Germany would have armed Mexico, and we'd have had real problems, just on guerilla destruction.
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