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| Posted by Red Steel On News/Activism 10/05/2006 12:58:20 AM CDT · 20 replies · 308+ views cnn International ^ | October 4, 2006 MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- A spokesman for Mexican President Vincente Fox on Wednesday said the United States will likely never build 700 miles of new fencing along the border dividing the two nations. The fence received final approval in the United States last week. But Fox's spokesman Ruben Aguilar said the U.S. Congress is unlikely to approve enough funding to finish the project. "There is no money to build it, so it won't be built," Aguilar told reporters. "Even though the wall was approved, there is no funding." No one knows how much the 700-mile (1,125-kilometer) fence will cost,... |
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| Cornyn: 700 miles of border fence won't happen Senator says doesn't have funds. |
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| Posted by axes_of_weezles On News/Activism 10/04/2006 10:19:08 PM CDT · 72 replies · 822+ views The Austin American Statesman ^ | 4 October 2006 | eunice moscoso Cornyn: 700 miles of border fence won't happen Senator says plan isn't practical, doesn't have the necessary funds. By Eunice Moscoso WASHINGTON BUREAU Wednesday, October 04, 2006 WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican and key liaison to the White House on immigration, said Tuesday that 700 miles of fencing approved by Congress for the United States' southern border will probably not be built because of a lack of money and other practical considerations. "It's one thing to authorize. It's another thing to actually appropriate the money and do it," he said.Cornyn predicted that some fencing would be built... |
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| U.S. fence ends immigration dream of Mexico's Fox |
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| Posted by VU4G10 On News/Activism 09/30/2006 10:56:37 PM CDT · 81 replies · 1,456+ views washingtonpost ^ | September 30, 2006 | Alistair Bell MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox retires in November with his dream shattered of a U.S. immigration overhaul that would allow millions more Mexicans to work legally north of the border. Fox was once warmly described by President Bush as an "amigo," and his main foreign-policy objective was persuading U.S. lawmakers to soften immigration laws. |
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Excellent reference links Tom! I don't think that many realize that only 300 miles of fencing has actually been funded and the real reason why any EFFECTIVE fencing to secure ACROSS the border will never happen.
For those interested,I went search through the SPP information because I recall reading that the SPP/NAU Agenda is not to secure across the border but around the perimeter of the continent. They even take it a step further to elaborate why.....
"President Bush described the significance of the SPP as putting forward a common commitment "to markets and democracy, freedom and trade, and mutual prosperity and security." The policy framework articulated by the three leaders is a significant commitment that will benefit from broad discussion and advice. The Task Force is pleased to provide specific advice on how the partnership can be pursued and realized.
To that end, the Task Force proposes the creation by 2010 of a NORTH AMERICAN community to enhance security, prosperity, and opportunity. We propose a community based on the principle affirmed in the March 2005 Joint Statement of the three leaders that "our security and prosperity are mutually dependent and complementary." Its boundaries will be defined by a common external tariff and AN OUTER SECURITY PERIMETER WITHIN WHICH THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE, PRODUCTS, AND CAPITAL WILL BE LEGAL, ORDERLY AND SAFE. ITS GOAL WILL BE TO GUARANTEE A FREE, SECURE, JUST AND PROSPEROUS...NORTH AMERICA."
In the following text, one of the chairmen referred to is Former Massachusetts governor and assistant attorney general William Weld.
"The task force recommended developing a “North American community” with a common biometric border pass that would allow expedited passage through customs, immigration and airport security throughout North America.
“The governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically reducing the need for physical scrutiny of traffic, travel and trade within North America,” the chairmen’s statement said.
The chairman also recommend harmonized visa and asylum regulations, joint inspection of container traffic and “synchronized screening and tracking of people, goods and vessels, including integrated ‘watch’ lists,” the chairmen said.
“Like free trade a decade ago, a common security perimeter for North America is an ambitious but achievable goal that will require specific policy, statutory and procedural changes in all three nations,” they said. "
In addition to the perimeter security agenda, the following link is for an excellent article and includes the following text:
"Following his election in 2000, Mexican president Vicente Fox told an audience in California that his government would "use all our persuasion and all our talent to bring together the U.S., Canadian and Mexican governments so that in five or ten years, the border is totally open to the free movement of workers." Fox was similarly candid in a 2002 address to an audience in Madrid: "Eventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union."
The actions and statements of some U.S. politicians have been similarly telling. The Bush administration's proposed "guest worker" program, which is amnesty for illegal immigrants, is a key part of this trinational integration scheme.
Many of President Bush's staunch supporters, who see him as a flinty-eyed custodian of our national security, are puzzled over what they see as his uncharacteristic squishiness on the issue of protecting our borders. They don't understand that George W. Bush has long been a proponent of amalgamating the United States with Mexico, and is an unabashed proponent of regional integration as well.
The SPP, the instrument of that betrayal, does not have any broad base of public support beyond the tiny cluster of political, corporate, and bureaucratic elites that gave us NAFTA and CAFTA.
Americans by the millions have been infuriated by the spectacle of illegal aliens marching in the streets of our cities demanding they be given a fast track to citizenship. Our fellow citizens must be educated about the real design behind the drive for illegal-alien amnesty, and mobilized to defeat both amnesty and the ongoing drive to create the SPP."
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/americannworegions01may06.shtml