Agreed. Building the wall will run about as smoothly as rebuilding the WTC.
Posted on 09/30/2006 8:56:37 PM PDT by VU4G10
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox retires in November with his dream shattered of a U.S. immigration overhaul that would allow millions more Mexicans to work legally north of the border.
Fox was once warmly described by President Bush as an "amigo," and his main foreign-policy objective was persuading U.S. lawmakers to soften immigration laws.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Too bad!
I'd like to see more than his dreams shattered . . .
--the rank corruption
--the in-bed-with-marxists and drug lords
--the violence
--the remittance of so much money back so freely and so unfettered to our hurt
Very glad it was funded . . . but a new habit has appeared . . . rare in the corrupt halls of Washington . . .
just not doing things that are not desired to be done, funding, or not.
What?
THANKS
for continuing to raise folks consciousness on these facts and this horrid globalist plan.
Agreed. Building the wall will run about as smoothly as rebuilding the WTC.
When Mexico drug its feet in acknowledging 911, when they did nothing to help in Afghanistan, opposed us openly in the UN during the run-up to the Iraq war, when they openly sided with France against us, any sympathy on the part of conservatives for a pro-Mexico border policy died.I was living in Cuernavaca on 9-11. Mexican media had non-stop coverage, cancelled it's national fiestas (scheduled for 9-15) around the world in sympathy with the U.S. and hardly "dug in its feet". Constitutionally, the only way Mexico can commit troops abroad is if they are directly attacked (even their decision to enter WWII, when Mexican ships were sunk by German U-boats, was questioned at the time). It didn't help that the British were caught spying on U.N. Ambassador Aguillar Zinser, which certainly tilted the Mexican diplomatic corps against helping the Brits. And, by extention, the U.S.
This wall -- much of which is being built in areas where Homeland Security says it's useless and other measures are better suited, is going to increase immigrration, not lower it. Right now, you have a lot of "commuter illegals" who work in the U.S., but return home regularly (where I live, right on the border, sometimes daily). If these people can't get home to take care of their families, you can be sure they're going to bring their families to the U.S. You won't have anchor babies... you'll have anchor grannies and cousins as well.
The fence is mostly boob bait. It will take years to complete. Meanwhile the illegals are colonizing our country and their employers/landlords don't even get slapped on the wrist for enabling them.
I think Marron is valid in his overall point which is that conservatives recognized that we owe nothing to Mexico after witnessing the Mexicans trying to be more French than the French.
The fence is a force multiplier, not an impenetrable barrier. Coupled with technology and, above all, a real will, we will become more effective in closing the border. Without the will, there is no hope that we will be able to get to the root of the matter which is to apply sanctions against employers.
How does the wall change that? All it does is keep out illegal immigrants. In fact, it could strengthen the procedures for getting legal Mexican immigrants in the US if US businessmen need them that badly by cutting off the supply of illegal immigrants.
Bush said at the time the United States had no more important foreign relation than the one with Mexico, but his focus shifted to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq after the September 11 attacks. Mexico insisted on some kind of concession on immigration but critics say Fox did not understand that the new U.S. focus on homeland security made that almost impossible... "It was a total failure by Fox's government," said Manuel Camacho Solis, of the main opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution.Meanwhile, Fox did nothing while the drug cartels (and soon, Venezuela-financed guerrilas) took over much of his country. The Fence had better be complete, sea to sea, before much longer, but in the meantime, I'll be grateful for the 700 miles approved thus far. Mexico is a goner. American retirees will decamp (or die off by natural causes, with no fill-behind) and US tourism to Mexico will fall, precisely because of the lawlessness; that will accelerate the decline.
Well put.
What's wrong with millions of Mexicans finding jobs in Mexico? Revolutionary idea?
It's a good, important first step. The first rule of a plumber is when fixing a flooded bathroom, the first thing to do is turn off the water.
Mark
What?
I guess that's a new definition for "quarentine."
Mark
Once multi-millions flooded across the border, Fox and Bush figured the 'we can't possibly sent that many home' would work. Throw up our hands and say, "Gee, I guess our amigos from the south are here to stay. Who knew. Well, immigration is a good thing. America needs good workers. You wouldn't complain if they were all English or Irish!" Ad nauseum. We wouldn't notice hospital ER's closing, crime waves, drugs, no jobs for local kids, people demanding Mexican rights, Mexican flags flown, demonstrations on the streets, SSI, all education including college paid for by US taxpayers, etc.. Not to mention the fact that laws were being broken left and right and DC didn't care. Plus the fact that we're at war.
I hve already hear enviromentalist grouse about animal migrations and such. I suspect to have the the tree huggers sue to stop it. My biggest complaint is after we built teh 700 miles when will we built the rest to completely seal the border.
Interesting take.
Carolyn
"Maybe if he had concentrated on fixing his own rotten country instead of trying to interfere with ours he wouldn't have been such a miserable failure."
And risk assassination by the corrupt power structure? Fox is laughing all the way to our bank.
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