 The US has hit back at Mexico for criticising a proposal by Washington to build a border fence and make illegal immigration to the United States a serious crime. On Friday, Tony Garza, the US ambassador to Mexico, criticised statements by Mexican officials comparing the fence with the Berlin Wall and denied that the initiative violated the human rights of migrants trying to improve their lives.
| The Berlin wall was built to keep East Berliners from going into West Berlin, and it was built by the East German gummint. I think we went over this reasoning a bit earlier, when we examined the statement "Socrates is a man, therefore all men are Socrates" and found it lacking in sense. |
Last month, the US House of Representatives approved a bill that would put up additional barriers along the US-Mexican border, a plan Vicente Fox, the president of Mexico, quickly opposed and compared with the Berlin Wall.
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Garza said the bill would help enforce immigration laws and criticised Fox's historical allusion. "Comparisons ... to the Berlin Wall are not only disingenuous and intellectually dishonest, they are personally offensive to me," Garza said in a news release. "The Berlin Wall was built to keep its own people trapped inside, and was created by an oppressive authoritarian government."
| That's what I said, which was admittedly a mere statement of the obvious... |
The proposed law, which has yet to be passed by the US Senate, would make illegal migration a felony. Thousands of people are thought to cross the 3200km Mexican-US border illegally every day, some risking their lives, in search of low-paying jobs in the United States. "There is no human right to enter another country in violation of its laws," Garza said. "More robust efforts by the Mexican government to create well-paying jobs for its citizens would dissuade many from making the dangerous and illegal crossing to the United States." | There's a white glove in the face. |
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