[Larousse2]

Who was it that said, "Mexico's our friend"?

[Jim_Curtis]

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., said he was shown a report by the Border Patrol in 2001 that detailed incursions by military units. His complaints to the State Department and Mexican ambassador were brushed off, he said.

Not surprising. See if you can make any sense of this from 1996:

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On the issue of drug smuggling, for example, Wilson urged Dole this spring to push the Clinton administration to officially cite Mexico for not adequately helping U.S. authorities crack down on traffickers.

Bush, however, responded to the issue by writing a letter telling Dole that any such step "would have devastating effects for the citizens of the U.S.-Mexico region."

http://groups.google.com/group/mex.noticias/browse_thread/thread/d8252c001278e9f3/d7a06eda754c0dd5?

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It makes me wonder if there is some serious blackmailing going on. Otherwise, I can't figure it out.

[VOA]

bump

[kcvl]

Mexican military personnel crossed the U.S.-Mexican border

Fox calls Senate bill reward for Mexicans

"They fought for it," Fox said at a breakfast meeting in Sacramento with the California Chamber of Commerce and the Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. "They earned what they got yesterday" in the Senate.

[kms61]

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security did not return calls for comment Monday.

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that pretty much says it all.

[kcvl]

During his (Vicente Fox) stop in the Yakima Valley he toured G and G Orchards and met with farmworkers. Six busloads of farmworkers and others from elsewhere in the Yakima Valley, Wenatchee and the Tri-Cities were brought to the farm.

The 700-acre cherry, apple and pear orchard and apple-packing warehouse is owned by Rene and Carmen Garcia. Theirs is believed to be the only Hispanic-owned apple warehouse in Washington state.

Rene Garcia said before the visit he planned to ask Fox for duty-free apple exports in Mexico, where US shippers pay a 46 percent tariff on Red and Golden Delicious apples.

Mexico is the nation's top export market for apples, but Rene Garcia is worried he won't have enough pickers for his crop.


http://tinyurl.com/kew9b

[Nuc1]

Does anyone really believe we could be loosing the war on drugs if we were really fighting it?

[KoRn]

This is cause for an armed conflict to defend our country, having our troops route those bastards. Since our president is the lapdog of Fox in Mexico we will have nothing of the sort. The Senate isn't much better.

[freeangel]

What a surprise--NOT! Why should any American citizen be surprised that the mexican army is providing an escort service to those entering our country ILLEGALLY? Good job Pres. Bush and the senate.

[hershey]

Gee, Homeland Security isn't returning phone calls. I wonder why.

[TADSLOS]

I'm shocked!