Guatemala calls "insult to Latin America" proposed U.S. wall

Agencia EFE ^ | Dec. 29, 2005 | Staff

[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.

[Dog Gone]

It's not an either/or choice, Willie. Nobody is saying, "allow unmonitored immigration or we'll become commies."

Why some people on this thread have reached that conclusion is baffling.

[A Jovial Cad]

Babble, boil, and sputter all you wish: the bottom line is that you don't know what you're talking about, and, apparently, rarely do.

Get lost.

[andyk]

I've lived and worked in Latin America for almost 10-years, and have come to the conclusion that it is not possible for a North American to understand the mind of a Latino.

If they see this wall as an insult, then I don't want to understand the mind of a Latino. As if they don't have enough problems of their own to worry about! Maybe if they created their own free market economy they wouldn't put themselves in the position of creating a sense of entitlement that appears to drive their distaste of our own border security.

[Dog Gone]

That's really the best you can do?

If you think insults are a good substitute for facts or argument, you've disqualified yourself.

Go find someone else to bully. It ain't flying here.

[kittymyrib]

Yep...all these tin-pot Marxists depend on those US dollars being wired home to buy the beans for the rest of their turd-world country. We ought to put a 40% tax on all money transfers out of the USA as a repayment for the expense of educating, medicating, and incarcerating all the Latins that sneak into the country with the encouragement of their governments.

[68 grunt]

... "We take it as a total insult to all Latin America ...

Good! Perhaps you'll now take the hint and keep your freeloaders home.

[zeaal]

They are just repeating what Fox told them to say.

[A Jovial Cad]

It ain't flying here.

Oh yes it is--your dreary and 'oft cowardly assertions are something of a laughing stock, and not just in this thread. Ya gotta be bright enough to figure it out, though, and you don't quite make that muster.

[SwinneySwitch]

Immigration official killed in southern Mexico [Guatemala border]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549832/posts

[Dog Gone]

Oh, good more insults.

You keep proving my point.

You're not jovial, but you're hilarious.

[A Jovial Cad]

Keep sputtering and spitting: I'll keep laughing.

[hershey]

Big Bad Uncle Sam. Hey, it works for Canada and everyone else in the Hemisphere. We end up apologizing for enforcing our border. We even paid Mexicans to help police their side of the border...to the tune of $50 million last year. A waste of taxpayer money, as it went to line corrupt politicians' pockets and paid Mexican army thugs to cross the border into the US, while protecting drug smugglers and shooting at US border agents. 'One Happy Hemisphere' isn't working out. Somebody tell the CFR. Who knew.

[Dog Gone]

Enjoy yourself.

[hershey]

I were from South America or Mexico, and still in my native country, I'd feel threatened by the notion of the US actually putting a wall on the border. I'd think, How come? Don't they like us? I wouldn't have a clue about the reality of 11 to 20 million illegals in the US, what that meant in terms of billions drained from the US, or skewed population numbers determining how many seats a state has in Congress. This last is the real killer. If illegals determine how Congress votes, we're done for.

[freedumb2003]

I've lived and worked in Latin America for almost 10-years, and have come to the conclusion that it is not possible for a North American to understand the mind of a Latino.

Why, are they all female? ;)

[Cuttnhorse]

LOL...in many ways, especially mental...yes!

[A Jovial Cad]

Thanks. I will.

[television is just wrong]

Oh Well!

[television is just wrong]

Now we are going to find out what kind of problem we really do have when we try to stop it...

[bert]

they have no money and their people are an epidemic