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    Mayors Urge Passage Of Immigration Reform

    http://www.wral.com/apnationalnews/9325174/detail.html

    LAS VEGAS -- Mayors from more than 200 U.S. cities urged President Bush and Congress on Monday to pass comprehensive immigration reform, including a guest worker program, but they could not agree on a proposal to build a 300-mile fence along the border.

    The U.S. Conference of Mayors declined to back a resolution opposing the fence, which would be built along the Rio Grande in Texas.

    Critics said the fence would harm relations between the U.S. and Mexico.

    Virginia Beach, Va., Mayor Meyera Oberndorf said the fence would be "un-American."

    "We've always had open borders between Mexico and Canada, and we think that's just where it ought to stay," Oberndorf said at the group's meeting in Las Vegas.

    The U.S. Senate last month passed a wide-ranging bill that would create the fence while giving illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria a chance to become citizens. Earlier, the House passed tougher legislation that would make it a felony to be in the country illegally.

    The resolution opposing the fence was submitted by Laredo, Texas, Mayor Elizabeth Flores, Miami Mayor Manuel Diaz and Albuquerque, N.M., Mayor Martin Chavez.

    It urged the Senate to "ask itself if the expense and symbolism of such a proposed fence can possibly be worth the misunderstandings it will create between the United States and Mexico."

    Several mayors from border-state cities spoke against the resolution opposing the fence before the group sent it back to a committee.

    Sam LaGrone, mayor of Roswell, N.M., said more needs to be done to stop the flow of drugs such as methamphetamine.

    "The amount of meth that is coming across our borders is absolutely ruining so many families in our border states," LaGrone said. "This is an issue that definitely in my opinion should be left to the Border Patrol."

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    Get a list of those mayors and start calling them too.

    If they are dumb enough to weigh in on the fight, then bring it to them.

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    "We've always had open borders between Mexico and Canada, and we think that's just where it ought to stay," Oberndorf said at the group's meeting in Las Vegas.
    Sounds like these mayors are totaly out of touch. That is a major part of the problem, once elected they can't see beyond how full they are of themselves. We've always done a lot of things that were changed. What happened to our customer service jobs...outsourced overseas. What happened to our American labor force jobs, given to low-paid illegal aliens. What happened to "Look for the union label"? Made In America? Things change, who would have ever believed that our own government would be bribing, practically forcing illegal aliens to become citizens? People we are watching our senators and congress, let's watch our mayors - I think they may even be dumber than all of them!
    We are NOT a nation of immigrants!

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    The resolution opposing the fence was submitted by Laredo, Texas, Mayor Elizabeth Flores, Miami Mayor Manuel Diaz and Albuquerque, N.M., Mayor Martin Chavez.
    Hmmm, Flores, Diaz, and Chavez.

    Perhaps someone should inform them of the fact that they're United States citizen representatives. Their interest shouldn't be what's good for Mexico and illegal immigrants, but what is good for America and American citizens.

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    Virginia Beach, Va., Mayor Meyera Oberndorf said the fence would be "un-American."
    "We've always had open borders between Mexico and Canada, and we think that's just where it ought to stay," Oberndorf said at the group's meeting in Las Vegas.
    Un-American

    What's UN-AMERICAN are AMERICANS who can't walk their AMERICAN streets for fear of ILLEGAL GANGS.

    UN-AMERICAN is having our kids held back in school while Non English speaking kids are catered too w/English as a 2nd language.

    UN-AMERICAN is not being considered for a job unless the AMERICAN speaks Spanish.

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