Posted on 09/28/2006 7:52:37 PM PDT by Cagey
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico warned Thursday that the U.S. proposal to build miles of border fence will damage relations between the two countries.
The Foreign Relations Department said it was "deeply worried" about the proposal, which is working its way through the Senate, adding it will "increase tension in border communities."
"These measures will harm the bilateral relationship. They are against the spirit of co-operation that is needed to guarantee security on the common border," the department said in a statement.
The House of Representatives and Senate are maneuvering to speed construction of a 700-mile fence along the United States' southern border aimed at keeping migrants and criminals from entering the country illegally.
A House-Senate homeland security funding bill containing $1.2 billion to begin building the fence could be passed and sent to President Bush before lawmakers depart Washington this weekend.
Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said that only a comprehensive immigration reform would stop millions of Mexicans sneaking across its northern desert and swimming over the Rio Grande into the United States.
"A partial measure that is exclusively focused on security does not deal with reality and represents a political answer rather than a viable solution," it said in the statement.
President Vicente Fox has rallied against the wall, calling it "shameful" and comparing it to the Berlin Wall, which divided Germany.
President-elect Felipe Calderon, who takes over from Fox on Dec.1, has also spoken out against the measure.
There are an estimated 11 million Mexicans in the United States, about half of whom are illegal. Last year, Mexican migrants sent home more than $20 billion in remittances, providing Mexico with its second biggest source of foreign income after oil.
In other news: "Water is found to be wet. Film at 11."
How about criminals opposed to prisons?
Yeah, I for one will run and hide.....SCREW MEXICO!!!!
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No kidding!
So are Jihadists.
I don't care about WHAT Mexico thinks. If they'd control their citizenry we wouldn't be having to put up a wall.
We can do whatever the heck we please on our own border.
Honestly, only Mexico would be upset about being told that they need to keep their own citizens in their country and if they want to come here they have to do so legally. How pathetic.
They can get off to a good start on this and try dropping dead.
Remember the Alamo.
There are immigration laws, SCREW MEXICO.
So much for Calderon being a conservative and championing reform. Same things were said about Fox six years ago.
No matters who's the President of Mexico the corrupt, stagnant, violent country will remain. The only country in the world besides NK that doesn't allow foreign investment. The same country who's own immigration policies are the toughest in the Western Hemisphere.
You took the words right out of my mouth. lol
Fence...? We dont need no stinkin fence gringo.
Let's name the fence after Houston Police officer Rodney Johnson.
I say one weekend we all get together at the border and rush it. A few hundred Freepers. Maybe organize a small vollyball game stretching the net across the virtual border.
Better yet, build a damn fence.
Thanks, I needed that!
Let's propose a deal: we'll build a wall on our southern border AND one on YOUR southern border. That'll benefit both of us.
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