Thread: Mexican anger over US 'trespass'

Mexican anger over US 'trespass'

Mexico's parliament has condemned what it says is a border violation by US workers building a controversial barrier between the two countries.
Legislators say workers and equipment building a section of the barrier have gone 10 metres (yards) into Mexico.

The alleged border violation comes ahead of a high-level meeting in the Canadian capital Ottawa.

US, Mexican and Canadian foreign ministers are to discuss border security and trade issues.

Mexican legislators said they had photographs and video, taken on Monday, of the workers and heavy-duty construction equipment that showed them about 10 metres inside Mexico near the border city of Agua Prieta and the town of Douglas, Arizona.

The Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said she had complained to the US authorities and that the men and equipment had been withdrawn.

Continental trade concerns

In a statement, the US Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said: "The US is sensitive to Mexican concerns... [and] has the deepest respect for the integrity of the sovereignty of Mexican soil".

He said US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had not been in the area of the alleged incursion and recent photographs of him welding a section of the fence had been taken in a different part of Arizona on the US side of the border.

The US says it is building 700 miles (1,125km) of fencing along its border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration.

Many Mexicans see the fence as offensive and say it will be ineffective and potentially cause more deaths in border crossings.

An estimated 1.2 million illegal immigrants were arrested in 2005 trying to cross into the US via the border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

About 11 million Mexicans are thought to live in the US, more than six million of them illegally.

Later on Friday, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is meeting her Canadian and Mexican counterparts - Peter Mackay and Patricia Espinosa - in Ottawa.

They are to discuss concerns that security measures put in place after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US may hamper trade between the three countries.

The officials will also look at co-ordinating responses to emergencies such as a pandemic outbreak of avian flu.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/a ... 390291.stm

Published: 2007/02/23 16:02:24 GMT

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You mean they're actually building something? Wow!

The US is sensitive to Mexican concerns... [and] has the deepest respect for the integrity of the sovereignty of Mexican soil".

Screw them and their sovereignty. They don't give a rats behind about ours.

Take back your illegal millions of criminal invaders and your anchor babies and maybe we'll move the fence back a tad bit. These people have got some nerve.

Mexico's parliament has condemned what it says is a border violation by US workers building a controversial barrier between the two countries.
Legislators say workers and equipment building a section of the barrier have gone 10 metres (yards) into Mexico.

OH BOO-HOO! What about the hordes of illegal Mexicans tresspassing and remaining in the U.S.?

Firecracker wrote

OH BOO-HOO! What about the hordes of illegal Mexicans tresspassing and remaining in the U.S.?

Exactly, but this is how our stupid government reacts

The Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said she had complained to the US authorities and that the men and equipment had been withdrawn.

The Mexican politicians need to be keeping their military and their drug runners on their side of the border and not whine over civilian contractors that might get 10 feet in their sovereign country.

I don't think it is the contractors but what they are building that has the Mexican government upset.

I`m sorry, ,,,,,,,,,,But,,,,,,UP YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Here we go again,

Many Mexicans see the fence as

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offensive

and say it will be ineffective and potentially cause more deaths in border crossings.

If it will not be effective, then why are you offended. And I would say it`s effective if it will cause deaths. And if that`s so, make sure that the "wanna be criminals" read the disclaimer first. If it happens it`s there own damn fault.

Mexican anger over US 'trespass'

Mexico's parliament has condemned what it says is a border violation by US workers building a controversial barrier between the two countries.
Legislators say workers and equipment building a section of the barrier have gone 10 metres (yards) into Mexico.

BITE ME

So the workers have left?
If Mexico says 'jump' I'll bet Jorge asks how high?
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/33839.html

Mexico irate with U.S. over border
Posted on : 2007-02-24 | Author : World News Editor
News Category : World


MEXICO CITY, Feb. 23 (UPI) Mexican lawmakers have slammed U.S. workers for allegedly violating the border while erecting a fence between the two countries, El Universal reported Friday.

The workers reportedly entered 30 feet into Mexican territory while working on the barrier, designed to keep illegal aliens out of the United States. The violation caught on video occurred along the Mexican border with Arizona.

The equipment and workers left the territory after receiving complaints from Mexico's foreign ministry.

I have no respect for mexico as a sovereign country after the way they have flagrantly violated our laws.