Citizens to Vote on Installation of Border Fence–In Mexico!

Posted By Allan Wall On 22 February 2008 @ 8:55 In General |

This Sunday, a referendum is scheduled, allowing citizens to vote yes or no on the installation of a border fence.

This referendum isn’t being held in the U.S., but in Mexico, in the Monterrey suburb of San Nicolas, whose mayor wants to put up a fence on San Nicolas’ border with its neighbor Guadalupe (see map). Reportedly, thieves are coming over from Guadalupe to steal things in San Nicolas,and the border is a scene of gang activity.

San Nicolas Mayor Zeferino Salgado has proposed a 5-mile long fence, over 6 and a half feet high, along the river La Talaverna, which forms the border between San Nicolas and Guadalupe.

So this Sunday, February 24th, a referendum is scheduled in San Nicolas. Eligible to vote are the residents of the 10 colonias (neighborhoods) adjoining the border. ([3] Voter ID cards are to be checked to [4] prevent outsiders from voting.)

The young mayor, known as “Chefoâ€