Posted on 12/30/2005 4:23:00 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Guatemala City, Dec 29 (EFE).- Guatemalan Vice President Eduardo Stein on Thursday described as "an insult to Latin America" the U.S. proposal to build a wall along its border with Mexico.
"We take it as a total insult to all Latin America that a government calling itself a friend and partner in the region only wants our money and our goods, but sees our people as if they were an epidemic. They treat us as if we were a sub-hemisphere of criminals," Stein told reporters.
The vice president was talking about United States plans to build an wall along its border with Mexico to halt the thousands of immigrants that every day try to enter the country illegally. The U.S. House of Representatives approved the bill two weeks ago.
To reporters' questions about whether U.S. migration policy could "chill" diplomatic ties between Guatemala and the United States, Stein answered that "there will be a need to reconsider" relations.
"Not just by building walls and passing tough laws that criminalize the search for better economic opportunities" can migration problems be solved, he said. The U.S. proposal is not only "absolutely intolerable and inhuman, (but) it forces us to consider other choices in terms of international alliances," Stein said.
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and the people coming here are sending money home, it does not help our economy out to drain our funds there.
Your weird rant about whether Central America is latin or not is interesting, but they all have duly elected governments with free elections and most certainly qualify as democracies as America defines them.
Whether they're socialist isn't a defining term of democracy. France is socialist. So is England. They're democracies.
And I'm not saying that we should open our borders to their citizens to come as they please. We shouldn't. I made the observation that we shouldn't tell them to jump into the Castro/Chavez orbit simply because one politician shoots off his mouth.
We have plenty of our own politicians who say stuff at least as stupid as the Guatamalen VP on a daily basis, and that's no reason why we should go commie.
And what this has to do with free trade is beyond me.
I'm just guessing but you don't like spanish speaking countries much, if I'm not misreading you.
...what's Guatemala?
Yeah?
Who here gives a rat's.....?
I wish to remind you that the US is not your country, you are just an immigrant, a second class citizen, and should show more compassion to poor, desperate people like yourself
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