Quisling: a synonym for traitor, someone who collaborates with the invaders of his country.
Posted on 03/16/2006 9:16:11 AM PST by NormsRevenge
A meeting of civic, business and government leaders from both sides of the border yesterday was intended to foster economic integration of San Diego County and Baja California. But participants in the Forum Fronterizo soon found themselves addressing a very different topic: illegal immigration and the proposal for a new border fence.
“Building a wall is an anachronism,” said Jessie J. Knight Jr., president and chief executive of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. “Nobody can possibly believe that this is the solution. . . . There are other ways to ensure security.”
The Forum Fronterizo, sponsored by the San Diego Dialogue, a public-policy institute at the University of California San Diego, drew more than 300 participants.
Organizers called for the fomenting of cross-border clusters to develop such industries as software, biomedical devices and pharmaceuticals by drawing on resources on both sides of the border.
The Borderless Innovation project was introduced earlier this year in a San Diego Dialogue report that advocates the creation of a Cross-Border Innovation and Competitiveness Center.
The proposal has won the endorsement of Baja California Gov. Eugenio Elorduy Walther, the keynote speaker at yesterday's event.
“San Diego and Baja California have the potential to become a global showcase for how two nations can collaborate,” Elorduy said.
He also weighed in on the proposed border fence, saying, “We do not best meet these challenges by focusing our energies on building a wall to further divide us.”
The governor said proponents of stricter enforcement shouldn't use the issue “as a political banner because you're in a midterm-election scenario from here to November. . . . Look at it as a human-rights situation.”
The purpose of the Borderless Innovation project is to show that collaboration with Mexico is beneficial for San Diego, said Kenn Morris, project director with San Diego Dialogue.
“It's much more dynamic, and it's in our best interest if we want to compete with the rest of the world,” Morris said. “It's really that regardless of what you think about Mexico or Baja California.”
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was invited but was unable to attend. Fabian Nuñez, speaker of the California Assembly, canceled because of negotiations in Sacramento to place a record-setting public bond measure on the June election ballot.
The San Diego Union-Tribune was one of a dozen sponsors of the event. Others included Bajagua LLC, a San Diego County company that wants to build and operate a sewage treatment plant in Tijuana, and the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche.
What a putrid joke.
“Nobody can possibly believe that this is the solution
Great big mole traps for the tunnel diggers is one more solution.
Great big mole traps for the tunnel diggers is one more solution.
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The solution is to hire all those unemployed East German border guards and put them to work.
But are here other ways to ensure that Mexicans obey U.S. immigration law?
Baja California Gov. Eugenio Elorduy Walther weighed in on the proposed border fence, saying, "We do not best meet these challenges by focusing our energies on building a wall to further divide us." The governor said proponents of stricter enforcement shouldn't use the issue "as a political banner because you're in a midterm-election scenario from here to November. . . . Look at it as a human-rights situation."
Look at it as something that must be done because Mexicans have no respect for the sovereignty of the United States.
Organizers called for the fomenting of cross-border clusters to develop such industries as software, biomedical devices and pharmaceuticals by drawing on resources on both sides of the border.
“San Diego and Baja California have the potential to become a global showcase for how two nations can collaborate,” Elorduy said.
Mexico has exactly two resources: Oil and unskilled labor. "Collaboration" is mexican for "Foreign remittances".
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
ping
Either nuke the rat hole or build twin 15 foot high steel fences with sensors from the Gulf to the Pacific.
Quisling: a synonym for traitor, someone who collaborates with the invaders of his country.
1. Demand that the military be used to close the borders!
2. Demand the enforcement of ALL immigration laws!
3. Require immediate deportation of ALL illegal entries and visa overstays in our custody.
4. Require ALL employers to use the Social Security 5. Verification System for ALL hires.
6. Deny ALL illegal alien births 'automatic citizenship.'
7. Deny ALL illegal aliens a FREE K-12 education.
8. Deny ALL illegal aliens ANY and ALL 'public benefits.'
9. Deny ALL illegal aliens driver's licenses and in-state college tuition.
10. Deny ALL illegal aliens FREE emergency medical care.
11. Verify ALL voter's citizenship, before permission to vote.
Pretty simple really. We don't even need a wall. If all those things were done they would self deport and quit coming.
Ping!
One more step toward eliminating the notion of nation.
What we get in return for massive illegal immigration:
Closing hospitals
Increased health care costs.
Overcrowded prisons
Diseases we had all but eradicated
An underground economy
Increased crime
Identity Theft
Higher taxes
More police and schools
Increasing rate of unemployment of Americans
Lower standard of living for many Americans
Draining off of our social benefits
Gangs
Increased terrorism risks
Devaluation of our citizenship
Erosion of our national identity.
Lower tax revenues, since much of their work is off the books.
Smuggling
Increased drug flow
Human slavery and trafficking
Once nice neighborhoods now turned into barrios
To name just a few. Let me know if you can think of any more to add to the list.
Is that what they are calling it now? Economic integration? I'd like to integrate my combat boot right up their politician keisters!! Aarrgghh!!!
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Oh pray tell me when Chambers of Commerce became little more than chamber pots ... of greed, corruption and stupidity.
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