Posted on 06/23/2002 9:46:13 AM PDT by Tancredo Fan
Border governors flex influence muscle
By Hernán Rozemberg
The Arizona Republic
June 23, 2002 12:00:00
Leaders from U.S.-Mexican border states said Saturday that last year's terrorist attacks created unprecedented interest in the region and now is their best chance to influence federal policy in both countries.
Emerging from a series of closed-door meetings at the 20th Border Governors Conference in Phoenix, the representatives from Mexico's six border states said that for 19 years, they've seen little action taken in Mexico City after submitting detailed conference reports. This time, they say, they will insist on getting answers.
Hotly debated issues like the sharing of water and electricity can be worked out only at the federal level, but border governors say they have to stop bureaucracy from getting in the way of major decisions.
"By directly petitioning our federal government, we're making sure our recommendations will be thoroughly examined and that some kind of decision will be made on them," said Fernando Canales Clariond, governor of Nuevo León.
Some border issues are a matter of life and death. The governors decried this summer's record pace of migrant deaths in the desert and renewed their call for the creation of a guest worker program that would provide legal jobs and curb risky border crossings.
Representing Arizona for the last time as she approaches the end of her term in office, Gov. Jane Hull reiterated the need for guest workers but also went further, noting she'd like to see the formal border disappear within two decades.
"Borders have a way of blocking our vision," she said.
"I see a region some day without walls. I envision a region where our children chat in English and Spanish, where we have an equal footing economically and we no longer need to count the bodies of migrants in the desert."
But until and if that change occurs, border governors want to make sure increased border security does not equal decreased cross-border commerce and tourism.
Arizona border towns, whose economies directly depend on Mexicans crossing north each day to shop, are still recovering from financial losses as shoppers disappeared after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Well Said. When the statements of many of our elected officials in both parties are examined regarding their views about America's borders and immigration laws it is quite clear that we are dealing with political class that quite simply does not believe in the sovereignty of America. Since in office Jorge Bush has made a number of statements that have a similar ring to what Jane Hull said recently.
Yes, I don't remember the electorate ever voting for a no-borders, anything goes immigration agenda. It's about time we get some clarification from Jorge and the GOP as to if they believe our borders and immigration laws have any validity at all in their thinking. The electorate needs answers right now. If they don’t want to talk about it then I guess we have our answer.
Globalist agitprop, created by big business, foisted as charitable feeling, propagated by guilt liberals, self-hating whiteys, the usual litany.
A symptom of the Republicrat stripmining of the American people and wealth to serve the short term interests of a few.
A unique converging of capital and guilt, capital that profits by suppressing American working peoples' wages, with the complicity of America hating lefties and union "leaders" like in the AFL-CIO thoroughly infiltrated with ideologues more interested in feeling good about themselves than their union members.
The Republican voice, or any voice, that points this out wins. But the money, and its censoring hammer of the charge of "racism" rules. Hull's bad. Kolbe's worse. He said he is going to wait until after election to stab America in the back. The mass media is silent, or in on it. Ironically, those most effected will be hispanic and black citizens.
My nominee for the next stripmining of the American working family are those in the trucking industry. thought you could raise a family? Too bad. Some execs want a bigger bonus.
Brought to you by the "Truckload Carriers Association."
I think the plan is to amnesty all the illegals already here. Later of course, after the guest worker program becomes the latest immigration disaster, our politicos will amnesty the new guest workers too. I'd like to know of one immigration law, amnesty, program that has not been debased by politicians into a total failure. Our government has ZERO credibility with anything to do with immigration.
Is the republican candidate replacing her any better than Hull or did the AZ GOP replace one open borders RINO with another?
I'll agree with that. Tancredo is the only light on the horizon.
Government has ZERO credibility with just about anything they do. It isn't just immigration.
Yes, that reads much better.
That's an understatement. I don't recall an administration that's done so much waffling, flip-flopping, and flat out ignoring major problems in my life.
If I recall correctly, we had a civil war to maintain our ONE NATION borders, sovereignty of ONE NATION and to deny the right of SECESSION. Now this b*tch want’s to go ahead and give Mexico what we as a nation refused to give the South.
Carol Springer, State Treasurer, who has very sound fiscal principles, but who probably doesn't have a chance because most people aren't aware of the good she did by trying to keep the spending down, etc.
The third one, Betsy Bayless, is a ditz, who keeps whining about education.
I forgot to say, not only did Hull wipe out the surplus, she threw the state into billions of debt because of her alt. fuel scheme, among others!
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Thanks much Geezerette for your insights on this. It sounds like Matt Salmon is by far the best prospect for governorship of AZ. Any politican that makes good on a term-limits pledge is a rare bird these days.
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