Mexico May Take Fence Dispute to U.N.

Washing Post via Drudge ^ | October 9, 2006 | JENNY BARCHFIELD

[Ben Mugged]

Mexico's foreign secretary said Monday the country may take a dispute over U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border to the United Nations.

Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters in Paris, his first stop on a European tour, that a legal investigation was under way to determine whether Mexico has a case.

The Mexican government last week sent a diplomatic note to Washington criticizing the plan for 700 miles of new fencing along the border. President-elect Felipe Calderon also denounced the plan, but said it was a bilateral issue that should not be put before the international community.

Derbez said Monday after meeting with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy that it was a "shame" U.S. immigration policy had been used for what he claimed was a short-term political gain in the lead-up to midterm elections in the U.S. in November.

He said he discussed the issue with Douste-Blazy, and planned to bring it up in meetings with his Spanish and Italian counterparts during visits to Madrid and Rome. He vowed to work on the case until the "very last day" of President Vicente Fox's term, which ends Dec. 1.

[Ben Mugged]

Get us out of the UN!!!!

[Paloma_55]

How about WE take the 12 million illegals to the UN???

Mexico is a corrupt pseudo-democracy.

[ARE SOLE]

Get Mexico out of US!!!!

[headstamp]

"Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters in Paris, his first stop on a European tour, that a legal investigation was under way to determine whether Mexico has a case. "


A case for what?

[RoseofTexas]

It's a joke...right?!!

[boomop1]

They can all take sleeping bags.

[mainepatsfan]

Well it's not like the UN does anything anyways.

[newconhere]

Wow. Does or has the UN taken on issues like this,(with any country)? What does the UN have to do with the fence?

[cripplecreek]

If they determine it's "illegal" let them enforce it.

[ableLight]

So, what is the basis for their claim? This can't possibly be real. They have no case!

[river rat]

Mexico is afraid of the "clogged toilet" effect in their turd world republic - if their uneducated, illiterate and unemployable peasants can't come to America...

Semper Fi

[lesko]

Ohhhhhh man.

[samadams2000]

Coming Civil War II thesis.

The UN will declare the fence illegal. President Klinton or InSane will side with the international community.

Sides will immediately be defined and Conservatives and Constitutionalists will be forced to go door to door and EXTRACT all governing liberal elites.

[doc1019]

If they take their complaint to the UN, the fence is safe.

[IronJack]

a legal investigation was under way to determine whether Mexico has a case.

A case for what, imposing its policies on a sovereign nation? In the old days, even attempting to do so was grounds for war. And they're going to ask the UN to approve it?

[upchuck]

All the corrupt Mexican politicos need to go look up this word.

These morons are a pathetic joke.

[American Quilter]

Every would-be burglar in America is watching. "Can I sue a homeowner for putting bars on his windows?"

[Ingtar]

They will likely make a claim under the UN doctrine of "Right of Return." More or less they will get the other turd world countries to decide that Mexicans are indigenous to the Western USA and so should have free passage across the border.

(Another reason that the UN is a bad idea and placing US sovereignty under it is appallingly bad.)

[Tenyaka]

dispute over U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border

So is there a neighbor hood covenant we missed? It's our border, being violated by Mexican citizens. Deal with it!

P.S. Please don't bother the UN, they're busy writing a sternly worded letter to the PRK.

[GretchenM]

Mexico May Take Fence Dispute to U.N.

ooooooooooOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo

I'm skeered now!