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Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico implores Bush to veto border fence bill
2006-10-04
Mexico asked President Bush Monday to veto the proposed 700-mile border fence, saying it would endanger lives while doing little to halt illegal immigration. "The Mexican government strongly opposes the building of walls in the border area between Mexico and the United States," said Ruben Aguilar, spokesman for President Vicente Fox. He said Mexico's Foreign Ministry planned to send a diplomatic letter to Bush urging him to veto the bill, which passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. Senate on Friday.

The Senate also approved the first $1.2 billion down payment on the fence, which some experts say could cost as much as $9 billion. The plan entails running a barrier along mostly rural sections of the California and Texas borders and along nearly the entire length of Arizona.
Posted by:Fred

#14  Those who defend illegal immigration are immoral. They don't care about the fact that the people who cross the border get robbed, raped, and taken advantage of once they get here. All of the excuses as to why we need illegal immigration (economy would collapse without it; it's work that natives won't do; the brown folk south of the border won't do well unless we put them to work mowing my lawn on the cheap - are all the same justifications that were given for slavery.
Posted by: anon   2006-10-04 22:04  

#13  TW, that wouldn't have been Gainesville, GA, would it? Home of the nation's largest concentration of chicken farms and (subsequently) hog and poultry processing plants ("from squeal to meal in 30 minutes!"). That town has turned from a small redneck town into a medium sized version of Mexico City almost overnight. I drove through there last year and almost all the signs/billboards along the main drag in town were in Spanish!
Posted by: BA   2006-10-04 21:58  

#12  Hee! Is that photo of Canterbury?
Look more like the out works of Foryth County.
Posted by: Shipman   2006-10-04 19:24  

#11   illegal immigration also needs to be tackled at the demand side
I agree Tony.
yes we're finally getting the fence, but we do need to make it harder for illegals to move around freely, by enforcing ID checks at work sites, to rent homes, buy vehicles, get insurance just everything! I also would like to see ICE patrol our streets and communities and actually do something. Not have our police do the very frustrating catch and release program.
I had a patient last week that didn't want to go home. Stating that her boss turned her into immigration and that is what made her sick from stress. She was trying to get a restraining order on her boss. My "superiors" were actually trying to get this acomplished for her. Maddening.
Posted by: Jan from work   2006-10-04 17:02  

#10  The louder they whine, the better the idea must be...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-10-04 16:50  

#9  Bush signed the bill.
Posted by: .com   2006-10-04 16:37  

#8  Can he veto Mexico instead?
Posted by: Iblis   2006-10-04 11:59  

#7  Hee! Is that photo of Canterbury?
Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283   2006-10-04 11:38  

#6  Sorry Amigo, it's too late...the contract says if we cancle now we lose our deposit.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2006-10-04 11:31  

#5  TW, my understanding is that if they are Central or South American they are shipped home, but if they are Mexican, they are released.
Posted by: Gleaque Shairong2690   2006-10-04 09:16  

#4  It was reported this morning that ICE just raided a meat packing plant in Georgia, stripping out more than half of the 400 employees as illegals. The report didn't mention that production was affected, but I have my suspicions... However slowly and irregularly, people are being caught and shipped back, Tony(UK).
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-10-04 08:37  

#3  "Yeah, let us invade you, what are you, some kind of racist, or what?!?"
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-10-04 07:32  

#2  There's a phrase for this kind of behaviour;

"He's got more front than Sainsbury's!"

Which translated ;) means - chutzpah, bare faced cheek, gall, insolence, taking the biscuit. You get the idea...

As for not working, the Israeli fence seems to have cut down on undesirables moving through into Israel doesn't it? But illegal immigration also needs to be tackled at the demand side, and that surely means stopping firms hiring illegals (big fines would help here methinks).
Posted by: Tony (UK)   2006-10-04 02:27  

#1  Homey doesn't think so. (sorry I lloked for a picture of homey and found only that they are making a Homey the Clown movie - no doubt proving yet again that what is hilarious in a 5 minute sketch isn't always funny for 90 minutes are greater.
Posted by: Super Hose   2006-10-04 00:28  

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