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The White House wants a $1.4 billion stimulus/national security package…for Mexico
Michelle Malkin.com ^ | 02/11/08 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 02/13/2008 8:48:29 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway

A reader asked me to check into information that President Bush was pushing a massive foreign-aid package to Mexico to help them secure their southern border against the flow of illegal aliens from Central America.

“We can’t even get our own border straight, and we are going to provide Mexico with funding so they can solve their problem,” the reader fumed. “I doubt the Central Americans are staying very long in Mexico anyway. We know where they are going!”

Too outrageously outrageous to be true?

Well, I checked it out and it’s even worse than the reader described. Far worse.

The plan is called “The Merida Initiative.” Seems that the White House has had this plan in the works for nearly a year with little congressional input on either side of the border.

We can’t finish our own border fence, properly supply our immigration agents and border patrol with all the equipment and resources they need, or get our house in order. Yet, the Bush administration wants to fork over $1.4 billion to Mexico and Central America–with much of it going into the hands of corrupt law enforcement officials and government bureaucrats who have worked tirelessly to undermine our immigration laws. The funding is tucked into the 2008 supplemental budget.


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1 posted on 02/13/2008 8:48:52 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/oct/93800.htm


2 posted on 02/13/2008 8:52:40 PM PST by acoulterfan
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Just buy the damn thing. Make it the 51st state of the union.


3 posted on 02/13/2008 8:54:39 PM PST by Fred (Looking Forward to Impeaching the other Clinton)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I love Michelle, and I know that rousing the rabble equals attention and bucks, but this country has for decades been supporting most of the hemisphere in whatever screwy programs they were fronting. I knew that in junior high and I’m long beyond that.


4 posted on 02/13/2008 8:55:15 PM PST by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
“The Merida Initiative.”

Let me guess, was it this guy who wrote it????


5 posted on 02/13/2008 8:57:22 PM PST by Fred (Looking Forward to Impeaching the other Clinton)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Canadians want to be where it’s hot and sunny. Many of them visit Cuba’s little resort for them in order to do so. Mexicans want to move north, where they can be cold and cavort with “gringos.”

Make Mexico a province of Canada.


6 posted on 02/13/2008 9:01:12 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), '89-'96, Duncan Hunter for President)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway; 185JHP; 230FMJ; 2dogjoe; 2ndDivisionVet; 351 Cleveland; 4Freedom; ...

Malkin Ping!

Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Michelle Malkin ping list...

7 posted on 02/13/2008 9:01:41 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: cgk

I am so mexicanned out.


8 posted on 02/13/2008 9:08:55 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: cgk

Oh, Michelle is so cute!

And she’s one smart cookie, too! Glad she’s on track against this latest border betrayal.


9 posted on 02/13/2008 9:11:44 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Plan Columbia totally failed and it cost 6 Billion. We are getting a bargain price for failing in Mexico.


10 posted on 02/13/2008 9:22:15 PM PST by microgood
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

It’s part of the North American Union plan. Mexico’s southern border is to be our new southern border. Yuck.


11 posted on 02/13/2008 9:42:32 PM PST by devere
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To: Fred
Just buy the damn thing. Make it the 51st state of the union.

And they will all vote republican. And more than pay for their social costs.

12 posted on 02/13/2008 10:46:43 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: devere

2010 is coming fast.

There’s a deadline to meet.


13 posted on 02/14/2008 4:11:05 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (And close the damned borders!)
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To: cgk

Nice pic. man, there’s just something about hoop earrings...


14 posted on 02/14/2008 4:14:12 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
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To: ovrtaxt

...or flawless skin.


15 posted on 02/14/2008 8:27:07 AM PST by Loud Mime ("Life was better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not")
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To: Fred
Just buy the damn thing. Make it the 51st state of the union.

I think that's exactly what is happening. Governments from both US and Mexico are working hard to remove barriers to annexation.

Lot's of money to be made in building Mexico's infrastructure. Mexico is rich in natural resources and available labor. Annexation is the long-term plan to save Social Security.

16 posted on 02/14/2008 8:44:44 AM PST by Kowdawg
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To: devere

Exactly.


17 posted on 02/14/2008 10:23:37 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
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To: Kowdawg
Mexico would be a powerhouse if it had our form of government instead of its skanky oligarchy
18 posted on 02/14/2008 10:32:36 AM PST by Fred (Looking Forward to Impeaching the other Clinton)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

19 posted on 02/14/2008 10:36:39 AM PST by The Mayor (The purpose of prayer is not to get what we want, but to become what God wants.)
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