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U.S. ambassador: Reports of border intrusion under review
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| 23 FEB 2007
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Posted on 02/23/2007 5:33:06 AM PST by radar101
MEXICO CITY - U.S. and Mexican officials will review reports of an intrusion on Mexican soil by workers erecting U.S. border fences between Douglas, Ariz., and the Mexican border city of Agua Prieta, U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza said.
Garza, in a news statement released Thursday, stressed that the United States respects Mexican sovereignty and works to avoid intruding on its territory.
Mexican legislators said they had photos and video showing U.S. workers and equipment crossing about 10 yards into Mexico on Monday.
Garza said U.S. and Mexican officials would visit the site to ascertain what happened.
"The U.S. is sensitive to Mexican concerns," the statement said, and "has the deepest respect for the integrity of the sovereignty of Mexican soil."
Most Mexicans consider the border fences an insult, and their anger was heightened by photographs of U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security Michael Chertoff welding a section of border fence on Tuesday at another site on the Arizona border, just after he had visited Mexico.
Garza stressed that Chertoff had been photographed far from the site where the intrusion was said to have occurred, and that all of his activities occurred on the U.S. side of the border.
During an appearance on Wednesday before congressmen, Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Patricia Espinosa was berated by some legislators over the issue, local media reported.
"I ask you, is the Mexican government now complacent, negligent, apathetic, unaware or does it not watch over our nation's territory?" said congressman Samuel Aguilar during the hearing.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: crymeariver; waaambulance
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:33:07 AM PST
by
radar101
To: radar101
Can't we just .... mexico?
It would get deleted anyway.
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:34:43 AM PST
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: radar101
an intrusion on Mexican soil by workers erecting U.S. border fences
Well, cry me a river!
What about all the intrusions of Mexican civilians AND military on US soil?
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:36:18 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: radar101
10 yards They got a lot of nerve to complain about that...
4
posted on
02/23/2007 5:37:03 AM PST
by
Enosh
(†)
To: radar101
Garza should have been pissed that there weren't any water stations.
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:38:21 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: radar101
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:39:08 AM PST
by
Egon
("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
To: TomGuy
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:40:57 AM PST
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
To: radar101
"The U.S. is sensitive to Mexican concerns," the statement said, and "has the deepest respect for the integrity of the sovereignty of Mexican soil." What do they have on us? Do they have Jorge Gone Wild video from Spring Break 1975? What is it?
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:45:31 AM PST
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: radar101
...will review reports of an intrusion...U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza said.Somebody needs to "review" this clown Garza. He can't remember which country he is supposed to represent. Where is he when we need to "review" the Mexican invasion of the US not only by regular criminals but by the Mexican military?
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:45:41 AM PST
by
FreePaul
To: radar101
is this satire? It's got to be!
10
posted on
02/23/2007 5:47:12 AM PST
by
vigilante2
(Thank You Troops)
To: radar101
Darn it!!!!
Why doesn't Mexico just apply to become part of the US. They are more than happy to ship there poor across our border for rehabilitation but God forbid we should step 10 yards onto their territory.
Build it faster. Build it higher. Build it deeper. Build it stronger.
Build it...
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:48:06 AM PST
by
GulfBreeze
(Vote the FREEPERS choice, Duncan Hunter - www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=170)
To: vigilante2
The U.S. is sensitive...
ooh yes. Our government is sooooo sensitive...to MEXICO!!!
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:48:45 AM PST
by
Shimmer128
(But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Kipling)
To: HEY4QDEMS
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:48:56 AM PST
by
GulfBreeze
(Vote the FREEPERS choice, Duncan Hunter - www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=170)
To: Egon
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:49:15 AM PST
by
GulfBreeze
(Vote the FREEPERS choice, Duncan Hunter - www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=170)
To: radar101
The hell with this, Lets investigate Mexican Militaryu coming into the US and firing on Americans.
Its time to stop pussyfooting around with these characters.
Tell them to keep their people home and we wont need a damned fence.
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:55:40 AM PST
by
sgtbono2002
(I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
To: neodad
"The U.S. is sensitive to Mexican concerns," the statement said, and "has the deepest respect for the integrity of the sovereignty of Mexican soil."
While they have none for ours.
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:57:06 AM PST
by
sgtbono2002
(I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
To: GulfBreeze
Why doesn't Mexico just apply to become part of the US.
Because the wealthy uppercrust ruling class of Mexico wants to retain their sovereignty/independence, while shipping their problems (poor, unhealthy, uneducated, aging populace) north.
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:58:39 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: TomGuy
Who was it whi said 'fry my a lizard'? Or something like that.
To: TomGuy
yea. I think that is about the long and short of it.
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posted on
02/23/2007 5:59:44 AM PST
by
GulfBreeze
(Vote the FREEPERS choice, Duncan Hunter - www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=170)
To: radar101
photographs of U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security Michael Chertoff welding
I didn't know he could weld. I'm impressed.
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posted on
02/23/2007 6:03:18 AM PST
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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