This next decade is gonna be a beaut.
Posted on 05/19/2006 5:41:19 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
MEXICO CITY (AP) -
Mexico and four Central American nations condemned the U.S plan to build hundreds of miles of triple-layered fencing on its southern border, saying it would not stop illegal immigration.
In a joint news conference in Mexico City late Thursday, the foreign ministers of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Mexico said that building barriers was not the way to solve problems between neighboring nations.
"The position of Mexico and the other countries is that walls will not make a difference in terms of the solution to the migration problem," said Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate approved a proposal to build 370 miles of triple-layer fencing along parts of the 2,000-mile border separating the U.S. and Mexico. The Senate also agreed to give many illegal immigrants a shot at U.S. citizenship.
Guatemalan Foreign Minister Jorge Briz said major immigration reform in the United States was the only way to stop the wave of people heading northward.
"All of us are looking for a comprehensive migratory regulation so that millions of Latin Americans can continue working in and supporting the United States economy," Briz said.
Earlier Thursday, Mexico's Foreign Relations Department sent a note to the U.S. State Department outlining the nation's concerns about the proposed barrier.
Honduran Foreign Minister Milton Jimenez said he expected several South American and Caribbean countries to join Mexico and the Central Americans in issuing a joint declaration on the matter soon.
In December, the U.S. House approved a bill to build a fence about twice as long as the one approved by the Senate. The House plan sparked a wave of criticism from Latin American leaders, with Mexican President Vicente Fox comparing such a barrier to the Berlin Wall.
Fox reiterated his criticisms on Thursday.
"Building walls, constructing barriers on the border does not offer an efficient solution in a relationship of friends, neighbors and partners," Fox said in the border city of Tijuana. "We will go on defending the rights of our countrymen without rest or respite. With passion we will demand the full respect of their human rights."
On the border with Arizona, bedraggled migrants who had been turned back by the border patrol said that more fences would not keep them from crossing but only make smugglers charge more money for the trip.
"I had to leave my three children, walk for three days in the desert, and now I'm here with more debts than ever," said Edith Martinez, a 40-year-old from Oaxaca who walked back over the border bridge to the Mexican town of Nogales. "Now I have to work in the United States to pay my debts from the trip."
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Associated Press Writer Mark Stevenson contributed to this report from Nogales. Ioan Grillo contributed to this report from Mexico City.
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Build it...along the COMPLETE border.
Tell them to quit interfering in our internal affairs.
Good fences make good neighbors.
Fortified borders make even better neighbors.
""Building walls, constructing barriers on the border does not offer an efficient solution in a relationship of friends, neighbors and partners," Fox said in the border city of Tijuana. "We will go on defending the rights of our countrymen without rest or respite. With passion we will demand the full respect of their human rights.""
Of all the hypocritical....
Clearly they know that if completed, a wall would be a serious impediment to their money flow and reconquista. Otherwise they wouldn't be upset.
If all these socialist communists are against it than it's obviously the RIGHT thing to do!!
Maybe it's just me, but does this make any sense? Isn't objecting to it, the best way to guarantee we build a fence/wall?
Makes as much sense as insisting that nothing will stop them from invading.
They can lump it.
""The position of Mexico and the other countries is that walls will not make a difference in terms of the solution to the migration problem," said Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez."
Well, If it won't make a difference, what's his beef? Our taxes our land, let us do silly things with it.
Even if we only get the 350 miles (with the additional 600 miles of temprary fence) it is a start...we can fill in later...once we start it, it will have a snowball effect.
"Vicente Fox comparing such a barrier to the Berlin Wall."
Shove it Fox.
uh, no.
That's right, Fox. And you should start in that POS country of yours.
Tell them that annexation would cure our border issues once and from all time.
Thye have a choice, either we build the fence, they build the fence, or there is no need for a fence.
This next decade is gonna be a beaut.
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