Thread: Mexican government criticizes New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardso

ASSOCIATED PRESS

6:21 p.m. August 12, 2005

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government criticized New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's decision Friday to declare states of emergency in four border counties due to crime and migration, a move that free up funds to fence an area near the border.
Mexico said the declarations "don't jibe with the spirit of cooperation and understanding" and ordered its consul in Albuquerque to meet with New Mexico officials "to promote appropriate actions by the officials of both countries."

Richardson cited "violence directed at law enforcement, damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling and an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants" in declaring the emergency.

He said the border security situation "constitutes an emergency condition with potentially catastrophic consequences."

Mexico has long opposed any increased border fencing, and is also sensitive to U.S. criticism about rising violence in Nuevo Laredo, to the east on the Texas border.

"The Mexican government considers that some of the New Mexico government's statements are generalizations which don't jibe with the spirit of cooperation and understanding needed to address border problems," Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said in a press statement.

Richardson's executive order, makes US$750,000 immediately available to Dona Ana, Luna, Grant and Hidalgo counties, along with a pledge of an additional US$1 million.

The money will aid state and area law enforcement efforts, fund a field office for the state Office of Homeland Security and help build a fence to protect a Columbus-area livestock yard where a number of cattle have been killed or stolen.

The funds will finance an 11-foot, razor wire-topped security fence around the stockyards. It will replace a shorter, barbed-wire fence that Richardson said "is so full of holes and gaps that trucks and people can cross with no control."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...derfences.html

"The Mexican government considers that some of the New Mexico government's statements are generalizations which don't jibe with the spirit of cooperation and understanding needed to address border problems," Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said in a press statement.

What a sense of humor these guys have.

chutzpah, too

RR

"The Mexican government considers that some of the New Mexico government's statements are generalizations which don't jibe with the spirit of cooperation and understanding needed to address border problems," Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said in a press statement.

Hey bozo, stick a sock in it!

Whose country is this anyway?

Must be a closet Reconquista.

Isn't Richardson a McCain Kennedy supporter? So if he stands up for Americans once in as while he is anti Mexican?

Richardson would not be anti-Mexican...they may try to label him that, but he has always been more on the side of illegals than Americans. THIS is a total turn-around to my knowledge. Oh yes...he is one of those that previously at least believed the solution to illegal immigration was to legalize it!!

Maybe he can smell the WIND and is turning his back and walking the other direction.

We'll see. This is a good start. But much more will be required of course.

He'll need National Guard Troopso because, razor wire won't keep the out? How do you cut razor wire? The same way you cut barbed wire with a wire cutter.

He doesn't really know much about WIRE, obviously, so someone else needs to step in and design the fence for the cattle. In fact, the cattle might hurt themselves on the razor wire. They won't have wire cutters.

Didn't he say on Lou Dobbs tonight that he is the only Hispanic governor in the US?

I watched the very late edition so I might have my facts wrong.

Yes Governor Richardson is Hispanic. The Richardson family is of Irish descent but moved from America to Mexico in the 1800s and then moved back in the 1900s. His mother was also a Mexican American. Puerto Rico and Guam both have Hispanic governors.

I love how Mexico's idea of "a spirit of cooperation" is a one way street. We have to take all their crap but then the minute we decide to defend ourselves from their illegal invasion we're racist gringo cowboys.

Richardson is now officially a "race-pig" according to MeCHa standards. I love it!

evidently he likes being Governor and a potential candidate for President more than defending "illegal aliens" against American citizens that are fed up with it and Congress