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Hypocritical Mexico is now building their own wall on border with Guatemala...press ignores
Examiner ^ | Sept 19, 2010 | Unkn

Posted on 09/21/2010 1:58:28 PM PDT by Islander7

The Inter-Press Sevice (IPS) is reporting that the head administrator of the Mexican Superintendency of Tax Administration, Raul Diaz, has confirmed that his government is building a wall in the state of Chiapas, along the Mexican/Guatemalan border.

The official reason is to stop contraband from coming into Mexico, but as Diaz admitted: “It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants.”

According to Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights, 500,000 people from Central America cross into Mexico illegally every year.

Just as Mexican authorities have opposed the construction of a fence by the U.S., along our border with their country, Mexico is now receiving a great deal of criticism from the Guatemalan government.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; chiapas; guatemala; illegalimmigrants; invasion; mexico; wall
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Vice-President of Guatemala, Rafael Espada, said: “The walls are not the solution to the problems.” Sounds familiar.
1 posted on 09/21/2010 1:58:33 PM PDT by Islander7
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To: Islander7

Doing the job Americans refuse to do!


2 posted on 09/21/2010 2:02:01 PM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: Islander7

things can’t be THAT bad in Guatemala


3 posted on 09/21/2010 2:02:26 PM PDT by utherdoul
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To: Islander7

I bet Mexico ignores the fact that they frequently kill anyone sneaking into their country

Wonder if Calderon will invite the head of Guatemala to go before whatever they call the mexican legislature and insult the Mexicans
I am thinking not


4 posted on 09/21/2010 2:03:01 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: dblshot

my keyboard does not have an ‘ignore’ key.


5 posted on 09/21/2010 2:04:07 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: Islander7

And, we loaned them the money to build the wall and buy trucks, helicopters, cameras, C2I systems, night gear.

I have been unable to find the reference but there was a news article when W was president that we were loaning Mexico $$$ and arranging for them to purchase copters and the other gear.

I yelped at the time because at the same time Fox and Bush were in agreement that a US-Mexico fence would be ineffective.


6 posted on 09/21/2010 2:09:04 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Islander7

*“It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants.” *

Cool!

Maybe they could put a wall up along their Northern border to show they are our amigos!


7 posted on 09/21/2010 2:10:24 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: Islander7
This is an interesting read that will give you an idea of the problems in Guatemala...

Guatemala - Part One Crime and Cruising 2008, viewed from the Rio Dulce (Warning - Contains graphic image)


8 posted on 09/21/2010 2:19:28 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Islander7

Mexico is nothing but a bunch a racist Hispanic Ku Klux Klan Drugocracy.

They whine when the US is tough on Mexican Illegal Aliens....but its OK for them to build a wall on the Guatemala border.

Secure the Border, Deport all Illegal Aliens, and Abrogate NAFTA. Stop pandering to Mexico


9 posted on 09/21/2010 2:20:20 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (They don't let you build churches in Mecca)
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To: Errant

You linked back to the FR posting.


10 posted on 09/21/2010 2:21:18 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7
Dang...

Use this link instead

11 posted on 09/21/2010 2:27:35 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Islander7

That’s racist! /sarc


12 posted on 09/21/2010 2:34:29 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

It is more complicated then this,you do have a minority in Mexico who understand that their country has a double standard.

The problem is that for most Mexicans streaming in America,who shouldn’t even be going there in the first place,it is pretty much a non-issue.

To them,it is just a matter of keeping their house clean and moving on to a nicer place.It is either because it is “their land” or because they’re special enough to move to the States.

Not that different from other immigrants who moved to America and wanted to keep ethnic groups they didn’t like out and keep their own homelands pure.

The problem is that as in the past.It becomes a push to either replace or integrate Anglo populations within an expanding Mexican sphere.

In real life what you get is a Mexico that is literally imploding from the inside out as options to deal with the chaos becomes increasingly limited.While plenty of people in the States are increasingly getting disturbed at a bunch of people who seem more then happy to walk all over them.

Again there are plenty of Mexicans who aren’t particularly proud of illegal immigration or the way their own country treats foreigners.Yet given Mexico’s own history with immigration,some of which lead to the Mexican war,it is understandable that these people are pushed aside.

As for Guatemala,it and Haiti are probably the poorest countries in the hemisphere.It is pretty much the same as Mexico if not quite as dangerous because crime isn’t quite as well organized.


13 posted on 09/21/2010 2:40:51 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: utherdoul

I would take Guatemala over Mexico any day!


14 posted on 09/21/2010 3:03:51 PM PDT by mtnwmn (Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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To: Islander7

15 posted on 09/21/2010 3:21:39 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: RWGinger

I would think just being Mexican in Mexico is insult enough. I’m still mad as Hell at that little p!ssant Calderon coming here and insulting us. And Democrats cheering him!


16 posted on 09/21/2010 4:22:08 PM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: jmacusa

This is priceless”I would think just being Mexican in Mexico is insult enough.and undeniably true

Well said


17 posted on 09/21/2010 5:38:45 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: RWGinger

Thank you.


18 posted on 09/21/2010 7:31:56 PM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: DBrow

Didn’t you know that The United States, Mexico. and Canada are just one large Country. The wall is between us and Guatemala. ;0)


19 posted on 09/23/2010 4:39:02 AM PDT by seemoAR
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To: jmacusa

And the US media — see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing, report nothing about this.


20 posted on 09/26/2010 7:16:41 PM PDT by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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