The X-45 works (tongue in cheek):
"the X-45 would "hunt in packs," carrying up to 3,000 pounds of guided bombs to drop on enemy radar and surface-to-air missile batteries. Officials hope to fly a swarm of the planes by late 2003."
Are these the exact words of Fox or the papers? I'd sort of like to know where this "taco bender" gets off "warning" our president about anything. I guess it's just as well that I am not sitting in the oval office, I can't take a threat or ignore one.
I found the following from a 19 May report, not a precise match, but a pretty close paraphrase of Fox's statements.
Incidentally, they tagged the Taco bender's statements as * Montezuma's request*, and apparant play on either the term Montezuma's revenge, or *reconquest*, or both:
Mexican President Vicente Fox is asking President Bush: What have you done for me lately? At a recent dinner hosted by the Council of Americas in New York, Mr. Fox said "there can be no privileged U.S.-Mexico relationship without actual progress on substantial issues in our bilateral relationship." But Mr. Fox should be careful, lest he get that quid pro quo he is wishing for.
Specifically, Mr. Fox has immigration issues in his sights. Mr. Fox has been asking Mr. Bush to support measures to grant a blanket amnesty to the millions of Mexicans living illegally in the United States, more U.S. visas to Mexicans seeking residence in America and the reinstatement of the type of guest-worker program that was active four years ago. And Mr. Bush has obliged, to some degree, Mr. Fox's requests in an effort to court Hispanic voters. On March 12, a week before Mr. Bush's trip to a U.N. conference in Mexico, a bill backed strongly by the president passed in the House to allow about 200,000 Mexicans living illegally in the United States an amnesty. The Senate has yet to vote on the legislation.
The bill, unfortunately, sends all the wrong signals. Rewarding illegal aliens with an amnesty will simply encourage more immigrants to break U.S. laws, thereby contributing to general disorder and diminished security, not to mention a larger pool of undocumented workers that can be more easily exploited by employers. Presumably, Mr. Bush's support for the amnesty was motivated by visions of non-hanging chads. But just in case that wasn't tantalizing enough, Mr. Fox last week tried to sweeten the trade-off.
The Wall Street Journal reported recently that, according to Mexican officials, Mr. Bush's as-of-yet unfruitful efforts to push forward Mr. Fox's coveted immigration measures are "likely to hurt Mr. Fox's efforts to push through an ambitious agenda that includes greater access for foreign investors to the nation's energy and telecommunications sectors." Mr. Bush should curtly respond that the White House doesn't expect Mexico to take any measures in these areas on its account. After all, Mexico should liberalize its economy because it will benefit itself in doing so — not because it is doing the bidding of the gringos. Mr. Fox would hardly benefit politically from pushing forward foreign ownership if he were doing so to curry favor with America.
Mr. Fox maintains that he needs Mr. Bush to throw him some kind of concession ahead of Mexico's congressional elections next year. Although his own concessions may presently seem like a cagey negotiating tactic, Mr. Fox ought to remember, the Mexicans are watching, too.
Further - it has been 117 Incursions of the border by Mexican troops or police over the last 5 years documented by the Border Patrol, so says Repr. Tancredo:
News; Domestic FACTOR Follow-Up Bill O'Reilly
05/21/2002 Fox News: The O'Reilly Factor
O'REILLY: In "THE FACTOR Follow-Up" segment tonight, we have been reporting on the terrible Mexican border situation for quite some time, where illegal immigrants and drugs continue to stream across on a daily basis.
We also told you that the Mexican army has illegally crossed into the USA on a number of occasions, and we have documented them.
Now Congressman Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado, is trying to do something about that. He joins us from Washington.
Was the last time the Mexican army, as far as you know, congressman, came into the USA illegally?
REP. TOM TANCREDO (R-CO), IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Friday night at about 8:30. Although the details are somewhat sketchy at this point, here's what we know, at about 8:30 Friday night, just south of Ajo, Arizona, not, in about five miles into the United States, on our side of the border, a Mexican vehicle, a Humvee with Mexican military inside opened fire on an American, on a border patrol agent. A bullet...
O'REILLY: Really?
TANCREDO: Yes. A bullet passed through his window, smash -- shattered the rear window and passed through his front window. It also shot out his tire.
O'REILLY: Really?
TANCREDO: That is what we know. And I just heard about this about 45 minutes ago...
O'REILLY: How come it wasn't on -- how come it wasn't -- the press didn't cover it? I don't know anything.
TANCREDO: Great, great, great question. This, this is something that is, of course, very frustrating for all of us who are concerned about this. Bill, in the, in the last five years, we have had 117 documented incursions into the United States . Night -- by either Mexican military or by Mexican federal police.
Our border patrol people say that at least 90 percent of these are intentional, that is to say, they're not lost, they didn't just wander across the border.
A hundred and seventeen times. Where have, where have we been? Where's the media attention? Where's our own government's attention to this thing?
O'REILLY: I don't know, I mean, I had no idea that in Ajo, Arizona, that happened, and we're going to check it out tomorrow, believe me, we're going to get down there and call and try to find out.
TANCREDO: Yes.
O'REILLY: Now you wrote a letter -- because we have done this story before.
TANCREDO: Yes.
O'REILLY: In Texas and El Paso, they had a big shootout there. And you wrote a letter to Vincente Fox, the president of Mexico. And what happened there?
TANCREDO: Well, I got a letter back from the ambassador from Mexico telling me that he didn't like the tone of my letter.
O'REILLY: He didn't like the tone. What was your tone?
TANCREDO: He said -- well, I demanded to know, number one, what the Mexican government was doing about these incursions, what they were doing to stop them. He wrote back and said, well, most of these are just --they've all been dealt with. They're nothing very significant. Now, of course, that's the line I get even from our own State Department, because everybody's petrified of actually bringing this issue out, because of these touchy relationships. No, here's the real reason, Bill. Here's the reason why it isn't coming out. It's because if it does come out, then you see, there's only one thing you can do about this. And that is to secure the border.
O'REILLY: That's right.
TANCREDO: And that's what they what they don't want to...
O'REILLY: They don't want to do it.
TANCREDO: ...do.
O'REILLY: That's absolutely right. Absolutely right, congressman. Now, I believe...
TANCREDO: So frustrating, buddy. It's so frustrating.
O'REILLY: ...from our research, that these army incursions are protecting the Mexican drug dealers.
TANCREDO: So do I.
O'REILLY: That's why they're coming in.
TANCREDO: You can -- there isn't a person that you can talk to down on the border, any patrol agent, any member of the forest service enforcement side of the border who doesn't agree with you on that and me on that. The only people who you'll get an argument from are inside this Beltway, who don't want to acknowledge that. But I guarantee you that that's what they're doing here. At least a great percentage of these incursions have to deal with the Mexican military and/or federal police protecting or creating a diversion, so that drug shipments can get through.
O'REILLY: That's amazing that last Friday night, that a Humvee fired on a border patrol.
TANCREDO: That is correct.
O'REILLY: And the whole country doesn't know about it.
TANCREDO: Yes, can you imagine?
O'REILLY: Can you imagine if we did that to Mexico, that our guys went in there and started shooting at the federales what an incident that would be? Now congressman, are you getting any traction when you talk to your peers on the Hill about this? Does anybody care about this but you?
TANCREDO: Yes, some. Not enough, probably. Everybody is so uptight about this whole immigration issue. No one wants to confront it, because, of course, there -- well, no one on the Democrat side wants to confront it because there are votes involved. Massive numbers of immigrants coming in, mean massive votes. Nobody wants to confront it on my side because we're talking about labor. You know, a lot of people on my side want cheap labor into the United States. And they don't care if they're here legally or not. And you know, between these two powerful interests, I get a hard time trying to get this issue advanced.
O'REILLY: Well, not on this program.
TANCREDO: The only people I have on my side are the American people.
O'REILLY: Yes, that's right.
TANCREDO: The American people are with us.
O'REILLY: And congressman, every time you have something, you let us know because we'll publicize it. We're going to check out that Ajo incident and maybe we'll have more on that tomorrow.
TANCREDO: Please do.
O'REILLY: We appreciate your good work, congressman. Thanks very much.
TANCREDO: Yours too, Bill.
O'REILLY: Next up, Lynne Cheney, the vice president's wife will talk about American kids, her new book, and her husband. And then more controversy over Abercrombie & Fitch. Now they're marketing thongs for little girls. Those reports upcoming.
The X-45 works (tongue in cheek):
"the X-45 would "hunt in packs," carrying up to 3,000 pounds of guided bombs to drop on enemy radar and surface-to-air missile batteries. Officials hope to fly a swarm of the planes by late 2003."