Posted on 02/24/2007 5:18:16 PM PST by kik5150
Mexico's Congress has condemned what it says is a border violation by US workers building a controversial barrier between the two countries.
Legislators say workers and equipment building a section of the barrier have gone 10 metres (yards) into Mexico.
The alleged border violation comes ahead of a high-level meeting in the Canadian capital Ottawa.
US, Mexican and Canadian foreign ministers are to discuss border security and trade issues.
Mexican legislators said they had photographs and video, taken on Monday, of the workers and heavy-duty construction equipment that showed them about 10 metres inside Mexico near the border city of Agua Prieta and the town of Douglas, Arizona.
The Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said she had complained to the US authorities and that the men and equipment had been withdrawn.
Continental trade concerns
In a statement, the US Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said: "The US is sensitive to Mexican concerns... [and] has the deepest respect for the integrity of the sovereignty of Mexican soil".
He said US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had not been in the area of the alleged incursion and recent photographs of him welding a section of the fence had been taken in a different part of Arizona on the US side of the border.
The US says it is building 700 miles (1,125km) of fencing along its border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration.
Many Mexicans see the fence as offensive and say it will be ineffective and potentially cause more deaths in border crossings.
An estimated 1.2 million illegal immigrants were arrested in 2005 trying to cross into the US via the border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
About 11 million Mexicans are thought to live in the US, more than six million of them illegally.....
I don't think you'd want it the way I'm intending !!!
Whorehey go casa!
Surrealistic.
Offer them $1000 per person per day they claim crossed the border and set a precedent. Then start billing them.
It would be nice if George Bush was concerned about the "sovereignty of the United States of America"
I expect the dumb-o-cRATS to issue an apology and monetary compensation.
President Bush will do it first.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790630/posts
To bad he and his boss don't feel the same about US soil and sovereignty.
That just frosts me! What hypocrites.
From the bench I can watch the people in my court. When I have a Mexican, in the country legally or not, before my court, I can see the people in the court. You are not incorrect, judging from the looks I see on peoples faces, in saying there is a storm coming.
Never mind the idea, or my spelling.
5.56mm
Hold my barf bag, and watch this! What freakin' nerve. I don't know who is more obnoxious, the Mexican government or radical Islamists who think they own the place...
They have nothing to complain about. The "offending" workers did not demand free health care, free welfare, everything written in English, an all English channel, free schooling for their children, free food stamps, reduced housing or lower wages.
When Americans that venture 10 meters inside Mexican terroritory demand what Mexicans demand here, and the Mexican government expects, they have room to complain.
There are those who seethe, quietly, at the dichotomy present before them. They are angered, yet are patient. That patience will grow thin. Unknown events may ignite a uniquely American form of "sectarian" violence. Between those who adhere to a culturally American view of law and justice and those who seek a more "worldly" or "internationalist" form of law for this land and this culture.
Whatever the future holds, it will ultimately result in an America our ancestors and founders had no inkling of. The Civil War forged a common nation. What seems to be on the horizon may severely test its cohesion.
W has a Golden Parachute.
DEPORT.
No, what the civil war did was destroy states rights and impose the largest eminent domain scandal the country has yet to see. 2 billion dollars worth of privately help property was taken and freed with no compensation for the owners.
Regardless of how you and I feel about slavery today, the Union took, from Southern owners, over 2 billion dollars, in 1860 dollars, worth of slaves with no compensation whatsoever.
No, my friend, the civil war did not forge one country, the North simply imposed a mightier force to subdue a movement to regain freedom and maintain states rights.
I'd be happy, also very surprised, if the Bush administration were concerned about "sovereignty of American soil."
Well ladida, 10 meters into Mexico, well I'll be a dinglebird! We have almost 10 million illegal Mexicans in this country and more coming...So the Mexican government is complaining about 10 meters? Give me a break.
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