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Mexico Opposed to U.S. Border Fence
AP ^ | 9-28-2006

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.


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Well, that settles that.
1 posted on 09/28/2006 7:52:38 PM PDT by Cagey
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Mexico warned Thursday that the U.S. proposal to build miles of border fence will damage relations between the two countries.
How could they get any worse?
2 posted on 09/28/2006 7:54:07 PM PDT by peyton randolph (No man knows the day nor the hour of The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief.)
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To: Cagey

In other news: "Water is found to be wet. Film at 11."


3 posted on 09/28/2006 7:54:27 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Cant get a drivers license so you can vote for Democrats? Go Greyhound, bitches!)
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To: Cagey

How about criminals opposed to prisons?


4 posted on 09/28/2006 7:55:32 PM PDT by tomzz
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Yeah, I for one will run and hide.....SCREW MEXICO!!!!


5 posted on 09/28/2006 7:56:16 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
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To: Pukin Dog

: )


6 posted on 09/28/2006 7:56:38 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Our troops will send all of the worlds terrorists to hell in a handbasket with no virgins!)
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"Mexico Opposed to U.S. Border Fence "

No kidding!

7 posted on 09/28/2006 7:57:00 PM PDT by davisfh
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Mexico Opposed to U.S. Border Fence

So are Jihadists.

8 posted on 09/28/2006 7:57:07 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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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.


9 posted on 09/28/2006 7:57:08 PM PDT by madison10
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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.


10 posted on 09/28/2006 7:57:51 PM PDT by phatus maximus (John 6:29...Learn it, love it, live it...)
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They can get off to a good start on this and try dropping dead.


11 posted on 09/28/2006 7:58:27 PM PDT by KoRn
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Remember the Alamo.

There are immigration laws, SCREW MEXICO.


12 posted on 09/28/2006 7:58:30 PM PDT by Hilltop
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President-elect Felipe Calderon, who takes over from Fox on Dec.1, has also spoken out against the measure.

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.

13 posted on 09/28/2006 7:58:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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You took the words right out of my mouth. lol


14 posted on 09/28/2006 7:58:35 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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Fence...? We dont need no stinkin fence gringo.


15 posted on 09/28/2006 7:58:37 PM PDT by roughman ( roughmen stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm (orwell))
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Mexico Opposed to U.S. Border Fence


16 posted on 09/28/2006 7:59:00 PM PDT by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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Let's name the fence after Houston Police officer Rodney Johnson.


17 posted on 09/28/2006 7:59:03 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Don't worry, everything will be OK. Or maybe it won't.)
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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.


18 posted on 09/28/2006 7:59:44 PM PDT by Borian (Don't mess with Texas...)
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Faster than the speed of stupid.

Thanks, I needed that!

19 posted on 09/28/2006 7:59:59 PM PDT by dirtboy (This tagline has been photoshopped)
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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.


20 posted on 09/28/2006 8:00:13 PM PDT by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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