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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Hey Guatamala, shove it! We're tired of ILLEGALS destroying our country, get over yourselves.
guatemala - an insult to the world at large.
It's so cute when they make threats like this
the way things go here, the contract would go to a company who would hire illegals to build it. they'd tell all their buddies how to circumvent detection and each Congress critter's district the fence went through would get kickbacks from said company.
also, Dims would demand union-only companies get the contracts to insure if costs more than the Big Dig yet still has plenty of flaws and runs over budget and takes at least 25 years to finish.
Lastly , all the parts to maintain and assemble the parts would be made in China and Mexico and the Supreme Court will rule it's all somehow "unconstitutional" , but only after it's finished.
"I thought Guatemala was a landfill..."
Guatemala has some good mines..lots of jade, etc.
Hey Guatemala...if you want to enter our great land, then you can do what MY PARENTS did...apply legally. And if you think I'm mad about the flood coming across our border, you should talk to my relatives who were naturalized. They're positively P*SSED.
They think their citizens are sub-humans.
"but sees our people as if they were an epidemic. They treat us as if we were a sub-hemisphere of criminals"
It took you long enough to figure it out!
Stein is a Guatamalan surname?
We don't need whatever laughable amount of money you think you have. We buy your goods and that is the only reason you have any money. You are sending your people across our borders illegally, you are criminals.
Yo, Senyor Stein, shouldn't you be insulted that so many of your citizens are willing to risk their lives getting the hell out of your piece-of-carp country?
There are a lot of German type names in South America. Argentina, for example.
Bump for truth.
You mean German type names like Goehring? Goebbels? Hitler?
Yeah. Lots of people have migrated to South America over the years.
Yep. His next door northern neighbor is named Senor Fox, his boss is named Senor Berger, and his southern neighbor is named Senor Saca, which is an Arab name. They're all mixed up namewise down there. I even met some with Polish names in Caracas.
If they are insulted by border security then they are simply too sensitive and need to get over it.
"There are a lot of German type names in South America. Argentina, for example."
Well, then, he's fair game for speculation about his Nazi connections, isn't he? Socialists in our own country seem perfectly OK with going after small, adopted children on the same basis, so turnabout is fair play.
Damn, now we're going to have to find another way to get our cocaine into the land of the infidels.
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