Posted on 05/22/2002 11:05:59 PM PDT by Shermy
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico on Wednesday pledged to build 10 towers along sections of its 2,000-mile border with the United States to provide emergency water for migrants who become dehydrated while trying to sneak illegally across the desert frontier.
The first of the towers is scheduled to go up in June in the Altar Desert in Mexico's northern state of Sonora.
Each year thousands of Mexicans attempt the often-perilous crossing of the U.S.-Mexico border, with many of them losing their lives due to dehydration and extreme temperatures.
"These will be towers about 100 feet in height with panels to capture sunlight during the day to provide energy for light after dark and provide visibility of about 10 kilometers (six miles)," said Felipe de Jesus Preciado of Mexico's National Immigration Institute (INM).
The towers, which will cost about $20,000 each to build, will store drinking water and will be staffed by INM agents, Preciado told reporters.
In May 2001, 14 Mexicans died from dehydration in the Arizona desert after they were abandoned by the guide they had paid to lead them to safety in the United States.
Thirsty migrants who go to the towers for help will be sent back into Mexico after being provided with water.
With the raising of those water towers to encourage migration and trespass on US soil, we might as well say that we are at war with Mexico, yet we have not a clue about it. When are the sheeple going to wake up? Is Bush an unconscious robot of feelings and compassion, or is he a thinking man who knows the truth and recognize the existence of truth and the US constitution?
March 28th, 2002
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Unless of course the Mexican "guards", like the French police, just don't show up for work.
The move came after a weekend when none of the extra police that the French had promised would guard the Frethun marshalling yards outside Calais reported for duty.
Anyone coming over illegally IS a terrorist
God Save America (Please)
I agree, after all they attacked us first (spanish American war) and we beat them then. I'll never understand why we didn't annex both territories back then. Stupid mistake
Of course the peoples of those territories will not have voting rights until the present generation and it's children die off.
God Save America (Please)
All they have to do is allow freedom, real freedom. The immigration flow would be reversed.
That's very true. Maybe not their lazy welfare seekers who still will come to the US to get in on the freebies we so eaily hand out but the certain percent of illegals who really are hard-working would rather be that for their own homes and lands if it was at all possible. Our government shouldn't let the Mexican government keep it's corrupt ways which forces those people out.
Interesting concept. It would also apply to most of the rest of the world. What would you suggest as a way to "not let them"?
...mmmmh...that sound familiar, what other country have I heard of with corrupt politician clowns...it's name is right on the tip of my tongue....mmmm????
I defend their constitutional right to be stupid.
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