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.
Dry me a lizzard.
THEY ARE INSULTED BY A BORDER FENCE ?
How about the Banana Republic of Mexico producing DVD's instructing their citizens on the best ways to bust into the U.S. ? To me, that is an act of War !
This Shiite is going to Kill us slowly.
I hope that Mexico gives as much attention to our reports of Mexican troops crossing the US border.
Oh, ten whole yards. So sorry. NOT.
Well, we SHOULD have respect for Mexico. In fact, we can't let our citizens intrude on their territory. So we better do something to stop it -- hey, I know, lets build the wall to keep americans from going into Mexico.!!!
That's it. The line cracks me up.
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