Posted on 10/05/2006 2:22:13 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Mexico warns U.S. of referral to UN over border fencing plan
www.chinaview.cn 2006-10-05 13:17:09
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Mexican government on Wednesday warned that it may refer Washington's plan to build fences on the U.S.- Mexico border to the United Nations.
US President George W. Bush (C) signs a bill to give 1.2 billion dollars to build a fence along the US-Mexico border to stanch the flow of illegal immigrants in Scottsdale, Arizona. Aournd Bush are Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano(L) and Arizona US Representatives. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery >>>
The U.S. plan to build about 1,125 km of new fencing along the U.S.- Mexico border was an "offense," Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez told a news briefing here.
When asked if the Mexican government would refer the issue to the United Nations, he said it was "examining with the foreign relations legal team what options are open at an international level, and we will take them."
He said the fences would hurt the bilateral relations. "Just the idea of a wall, a fence ... is an insult to good neighbors."
The plan has aroused strong opposition from Mexico. The outgoing Mexican President Vicente Fox called the fence plan "shameful," while President-elect Felipe Calderon said the fences were not the solution to illegal immigration.
Fox's spokesman Ruben Aguilar on Wednesday said the fences would not be built as the U.S. Congress was unlikely to provide enough funding to finish the project.
"There is no money to build it, so it will not be built," he told reporters.
Despite Mexico's efforts to lobby for a veto, U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed a bill, which had been passed earlier by the U.S. Congress and will pay for the new fences which are aimed at preventing illegal immigration.
Under the bill, about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars would be spent during the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1 for southwest border fencing and other barriers.
However, no one knows how much the proposed project will cost. A 23-km segment of fencing under construction in San Diego has been priced at 126.5 million dollars. Enditem
Use a catapult.
We may as well annex Mexcico and be done with it. Everyone would be better off....except the Mexican aristocrats who control the government there, but I expect they'd do all right.
This is precisely the type of arrogant, outrageous behavior that proponents of conservative immigration reform should do all in their power to make known to every American.
They've got some nerve doing this, and what Haster and Frist should do is call back Congress just long enough to pass a new bill that starts construction of the fence immediately. And when Democrats protest, they should correctly accuse them of being stooges for the Mexican govt.
Exactly. And if we actually had good neighbors to the South, then this wouldn't be an issue.
Proper translation from mexican Spanish...
"We don't need no steeenking fence"...
John Bolton for President makes more sense than anything I've heard in a long time.
And who would make the best VP for Bolton?
The one, the only, the best damn SecDef in history, I give you Donald RUMSFELD, for VP!
oh YEAH! :)
I'd vote for that ticket!
We'll make a deal with you, neighbor Mexico: You take your 11 million illegal aliens back and we won't build the fence. Capiche?
Run tattling to the UN?
Tell it to Saudi Arabia.
"Just the idea of a wall, a fence ... is an insult to good neighbors."
That helps explain why the coyotes and illegals are always cutting and tearng down fences! It must be an insult to them!;^)
Good neighbors? Who are they talking about? Certainly not Mexico....
susie
This is almost laughable.
Officials south of the border are so delusional...do they really think the average American citizen givs a rat's ass about Mexico???? or what anyone there has to say???
good neighbors??? ...with that kind of neighbor you need the highest fence possible....
"Good Neighbors" don't tresspass on eachother's property.
"Good Neighbors" don't allow their military soldiers to fire on the others border patrol agents.
"Good Neighbors" don't allow their citizens to committ crimes in the others country and then return home to safety.
Personally, I wouldn't mind at all if a couple of "rogue" citizen groups started shooting at the illegals they catch sneaking into the country. It might send a very strong message to the rest of them.
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