Mexicans protest proposed border fence

LAREDO MORNING TIMES ^ | 01-04-05 | MIGUEL TIMOSHENKOV

[SwinneySwitch]

"A physical wall is anachronistic, autocratic and simply obsolete, he said."

Wonder if Carlos Cabeza has a wall around his backyard?

[Fixit]

And an armed guard on his roof.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

If they're protesting then we're doin' right. One is known as well by one's enemies.

[knittnmom]

"Mexicans protest proposed border fence" - can I nominate this for obvious headline of the day? Where's the "Americans protest lack of fence" article?

[mtbopfuyn]

Bush has called for granting three-year work visas to some illegal immigrants. The visas could be extended for another three years, but the workers would then have to return to their home countries and wait a year before they could apply for a new work permit.

Bush isn't helping.

[Personal Responsibility]

Their logic is so twisted they should be democrats.

Millions of them a year come here ILLEGALLY, overload all of our social service systems and it is racist on OUR part to want that to stop?

I *PAY* for all of those services through my taxes. If the US wants to put up a wall on its sovreign land, who the hell is Mexico to stop us? Maybe if they policed their *OWN* borders we would not have to.

[Mike Darancette]

At the international line dividing Mexico and the United States, a handful of Mexican nationals and officials representing two Mexican political parties protested Tuesday against a proposal to build a fence between the two countries.

Make it a high wall, then we won't have to see them.

[kellynla]

but the Mexicans have absolutely no problem enforcing their southern border...

what is the Spanish word for "hypocrites?"

[kenth]

"We consider the construction of a wall to be a violation of human and international rights,"

Talk about being shameless, this is to the point of being ridiculous.

Heck, even disregarding his backyard, he has a home with walls, doesn't he? Or are we supposed to infer that he lives in the open, with an understanding that anything he may possess can and should be taken by anyone who happens across him?

[wvobiwan]

Go Minutemen!

Enlist in your local chapters to go after the employers hiring illegals! Gotta fight the demand side of the equation too.

[MadCharity]

I for one, have no sympathy for these "immigrants" coming into our country ILLEGALLY. And I especially have no sympathy or empathy if they die while doing so.

Of course they are protesting a wall, because they know it will be one of our best defenses yet against their invasion.

Why it has taken Bush and his administration so long to finally start doing something, I don't know. But IMHO, I think it's one of Bush's biggest downfalls as a president to protect THIS country and fight the war on terror.

It is pathetic to me, that these ILLEGALS think THEY have a RIGHT to come here as they do and then reap the benefits the "liberals" claim as entitlements.

Put up the wall, China did it, and it seems to work for them....I say we do the following too:

1. CLOSE THE BORDERS
2. Add the National Guard
3. Add some more high tech gadgetry to enforce border security
4. Find the illegals in the country already and send them packing - NO work visas, no ammunity, no amnesty...get the f out and come back LEGALLY!!!!!

Sorry, let me tell you how I really feel...

Ok, I'm done

[Gay State Conservative]

Get used to it,Pedro and Juanita! But fear not,for unlike the Berlin Wall,our machine guns will pointed at those who are trying to break *in* rather than break *out*!

[NapkinUser]

If a wall is so useless, why do people in Mexico who believe anyone who wants to come to this country can come anytime illegally oppose it so much?

[DumpsterDiver]

Mexicans protest proposed border fence

Mexicans protest new immigration laws

Mexicans protest plan to boot them out if they're here illegally

Mexicans protest when told the laws apply to them

Mexicans protest lousy picture on Matricula Consular ID

Wonder if Carlos Cabeza has a wall around his backyard?

Mexicans protest wall around Cabeza's backyard

Mexicans protest...

Blah, blah, blah.

[kenth]

They complain that it is racist, but then who would be the true racist instigator if it were solely one race being pushed north?

[RKV]

"One is known as well by one's enemies." Yep. Well said. The kleptocrats in Mexico sleep soundly at night because they have the safety valve of US immigration. Remove US immigration (and the $$ sent back to Mexico) and there will be a revolution. As there should be.

[Puppage]

Mexicans protest proposed border fence

Are they also protesting their border with Guatamala, or is that unfair of me?/sarc.

[dalereed]

The ones that the wall won't stop bullets will!

[chesley]

The fence, employer sanctions, yes this means you fellow that's too lazy to cut his own lawn, and you, Mommy on the fast track, and an end to bilingualism in all government offices.

This is what's needed to control the immigration crises. Not legalizing the illegals.

[Personal Responsibility]

Just because they say it is racist does not make it so. *I* do not want to see a wall around the southern border because I dislike Mexicans.

*I* want to see a wall around the southern border because we are getting flooded with ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS who are overloading social services designed by, and paid for, by *US*.

I am ALL FOR people coming here legally. *THAT* is the true nature of the United States. It is why Ellis Island is famous. The Mexican gov't does not want these *ILLEGAL* immigrants back because their economy sucks. There is no work for the people that are there already, much less the millions here illegally.

That, however, is Mexico's problem. Not ours as a sovreign country and not mine as a taxpayer.