Thread: Senator Boxer calls for Mexican president's support

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Article Last Updated: 2/09/2006 01:20 AM


Senator Boxer calls for Mexican president's support

By Wendy Leung, Staff Writer
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

In a letter to Mexican President Vicente Fox, California Sen. Barbara Boxer called for increased efforts at securing the border in light of recent reports of Mexican military crossing into the U.S.

The letter, drafted Wednesday, stated, "Maintaining the integrity of the U.S.-Mexico border is critical to preventing crime and acts of terrorism, and to assuring the economic stability of both our nations. That is why our two nations must deal swiftly and severely with any violations of border policy."

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, held a closed-door meeting Friday in El Paso with federal and local law enforcement officers prior to Tuesday's congressional hearing on the incidents.

"Sen. Boxer is very concerned of the situation and (views) those two meetings as very important, but she felt the letter was also needed," said Natalie Ravitz, Boxer's spokeswoman.

Tuesday's hearing, which will be followed by another in the Senate next month, took place in the wake of an armed standoff last month in Hudspeth County involving armed men dressed in Mexican military uniforms. Mexican officials have denied any military involvement in the incident and put the blame on drug cartels.

In the letter to the Mexican president, Boxer stated that while it was impossible to determine at this point whether the Mexican military was involved, it was still important to determine why the standoff happened at all.

"If cartel members are posing as Mexican soldiers, all of our citizens are at risk," the letter stated.

A similar letter had been written to Mexican and U.S. officials by McCaul, who chairs the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Investigations.

Jack Hirschfield, a spokesman for McCaul, said border violence is rising despite statements by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that claim the incidents have been decreasing in past years.

"We now understand exactly what the local, state and federal authorities are doing on a daily basis and that something needs to be done," Hirschfield said.


Wendy Leung can be reached by e-mail at wendy.leung@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-9376.

All the years Boxer has been Senator in California and she finally claims to be concerned about the border. This is probably the most she has even done about it.

Is she up for re-election. But just saying Boxer. I want to laugh.

I believe Feinstein is up for re-election this year in California.

The only way this makes sense is that the "migrants" must be invading Boxer's sacred Marin County, instead of taking the bus back home to Oakland, Hayward, or Newark after doing the jobs "Americans just won't do".

We can't have that in elite super liberal-land. I can't wait for it to happen in Beverly Hills.

Boxer isnt up for relection that was in 04, its fiensteins turn in 06.

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Oh yeah sure, Fox is going to secure the border just because she asks. Gee why didn't we think of that?

That is why our two nations must deal swiftly and severely with any violations of border policy.

Is that why she:

Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration

Rejected immigration ceiling in 1990

Voted for huge increase in 1990

Voted against amendment to strip foreign-worker increase in 2005

Voted in favor of amendment to increase foreign-worker importation in 2005

Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000.

Nearly doubled H-1B foreign high-tech workers in 1998

Voted against amendment to provide funding for additional Border Patrol agents in 2005

Voted in favor of amnesty for agricultural workers in 2005

Cosponsored bill to create an amnesty for illegal agricultural workers in 2005-2006

Cosponsored bill to repeal the federal ban against granting illegal aliens in-state tuition and reward illegal aliens amnesty in 2003-2004

Cosponsored bill to reward illegal aliens with in-state tuition and amnesty in 2003-2004

Cosponsored bill to create an amnesty for illegal agricultural workers in 2003-2004

Voted for an amnesty for illegal aliens in 2000

Voted to grant amnesty to close to one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997

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