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10-13-2006, 11:57 AM #1
Security Politics: Bush Signs Ports Bill
Security Politics: Bush Signs Ports Bill
POSTED: 11:06 am EDT October 13, 2006
UPDATED: 11:09 am EDT October 13, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Mixing homeland defense policy with election year politics, President George W. Bush signed a bill Friday to help prevent terrorists from smuggling a nuclear, chemical or germ weapon into the United States inside one of the 11 million shipping containers that enter the nation each year
Many of those containers are not inspected.
"We're going to protect our ports. We're going to defend this homeland, and we're going to win this war on terror," Bush said.
The president used the bill-signing ceremony to assert that Republicans are tough on terror, a key issue in congressional elections just less than four weeks away.
He didn't mention an unrelated provision that seeks to put teeth into laws that forbid most online gambling. Instead, Bush focused on the multiple ways the legislation tightens security and closes a loophole in anti-terror defenses, especially at ports.
Mexicans Concerned
The port security law comes a week after Bush signed a bill to fund hundreds of miles of additional fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to stop immigrants from entering illegally.
The fencing is in a package of border upgrades in this year's Department of Homeland Security spending bill. It passed after efforts to include Bush's guest worker program broke down.
The Mexican government is concerned about the proposed wall and its foreign secretary, Luis Derbez, said he may take the issue to the United Nations.
Mexico sent a diplomatic note last week criticizing the plan and asking the president to veto the legislation.
Speaking to reporters in Paris, Derbez said U.S. immigration policy was being used for political gain. On a tour of Europe, he said he was raising the matter with his counterparts in France, Italy and Spain.
Derbez said Mexican legal experts are examining whether there is a case to be made before the international community.
Fox Seeks Solution
Mexican business leaders met Thursday Thursday to discuss new ways to boost the country's economy and create jobs in a bid to stem illegal immigration to the United States.
President Vicente Fox told the group that he shared the private sector's concern over the lack of security along the Mexico-U.S. border, but he said security, especially when it is related to organized crime, is a joint problem with the United States.
"We have a common problem. A shared responsibility on this border," Fox said. "To achieve this security, we have to work together and stop pointing fingers and assigning blame."
The business leaders presented their ideas to an audience that included Fox and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, among others, during a two-day Northern Frontier Forum in Mexicali, a Mexican border city in Baja California state.
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10-13-2006, 12:27 PM #2
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Oh, and this helps HOW??
Sure, with China & mexico in charge of many of our ports?
Wow, do I feel better now.
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10-13-2006, 12:42 PM #3Originally Posted by 2ndamendsisI stay current on Americans for Legal Immigration PAC's fight to Secure Our Border and Send Illegals Home via E-mail Alerts (CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP)
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