Thread: Mexican leaders decry Bush's signature on border fence bill

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexi ... fence.html

By E. Eduardo Castillo
ASSOCIATED PRESS

3:55 p.m. October 26, 2006

MEXICO CITY – Mexican leaders lashed out at President George W. Bush's Thursday morning signature on a bill to build hundreds of miles of fencing on the nation's southern border calling it an “embarrassment” and saying the barrier would be like the Berlin Wall.

Mexican President Vicente Fox said to reporters in the Caribbean resort of Cancun that the fence would not stop millions of Mexicans heading north to find jobs.

“It is an embarrassment for the United States. It is proof, perhaps, that the United States does not see immigration as a subject that corresponds to both countries,” Fox said.

President-elect Felipe Calderon, who takes over from Fox on Dec. 1, also said the bill would not solve the immigration issue.

“The decision made by Congress and the U.S. government is deplorable,” Calderon said while on tour in Canada. “Humanity committed a grave error by constructing the Berlin wall and I am sure that today the United States is committing a grave error in constructing a wall along our northern border.”

Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said in interviews on W Radio that today is “a day of frustration.”

His foreign ministry later said in a press release that the construction of a wall not only affects the relationship of the United States with Mexico, but also with Central American countries, from where thousands emigrate northwards.

On Wednesday, Mexico received the support of 27 other countries in the Organization of American States for a declaration to the OAS, showing their “profound concern” about the fence plan.

The U.S. Senate approved the bill to build 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) of border fencing on its border last month. U.S. President George W. Bush signed it into law on Thursday, despite pleas from the Mexican government for a veto.

Fox has spent his six year term lobbying hard for a new guest workers program and an amnesty for Mexicans already working in the United States without the correct papers. Initially, there appeared to be an appetite in Washington for a new immigration accord but the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington changed the Bush administration's priorities to homeland security and combatting terrorism.

An estimated 11 million Mexicans live in the United States, about half of who are undocumented.

Last year, Mexican migrants sent home more than $20 billion (euro16 billion) in remittances, the country's second leading source of foreign income after oil.

Berlin Wall

Last year, Mexican migrants sent home more than $20 billion (euro16 billion) in remittances, the country's second leading source of foreign income after oil.

This is what they are really worried about.

“It is proof, perhaps, that the United States does not see immigration as a subject that corresponds to both countries,” Fox said.

Fox, we've been begging you to do your part, and you respond by giving out instructions and provisions to your citizens and showing them how and where to cross the border. We've been asking you to deal with the drug traffickers, but their murderous violence is only increasing and is spreading farther into our country. You had your chance, now you leave us no choice.

I guess the signing of the fence bill will cause the Boosh/Fox friendship officially over!

Oh, what a pity!!

“It is an embarrassment for the United States. It is proof, perhaps, that the United States does not see immigration as a subject that corresponds to both countries,” Fox said.

This just shows us how dilluted Mexico really is. Fox acts like the immigration problem is 100% our fault, and nothing to do with Mexico.
Its sad that this corrupt government has brain washed its people to be the way they are now.

Originally Posted by JohnB2012

Berlin Wall

Last year, Mexican migrants sent home more than $20 billion (euro16 billion) in remittances, the country's second leading source of foreign income after oil.

This is what they are really worried about.

My thoughts exactly. The things that still amazes me is that they think they have any say in it at all! We can do whatever we want on our own soil.

I don't buy mexico's outrage for a NY second.

It's my {now} firm belief that this "outrage" is a set-up between the Fox administration and the bush administration to help rile up the mexicans and divert American's attention from the TRUE goal of AMNESTY.

It's working as the press is all over it while taking little time to highlight bush's guest worker/temp worker/humanitarian AMNESTY.

my 2 cents