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Mexican president announces initiative for North American cooperation
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/AP ^ | March 16, 2005 | John Rice

Posted on 03/16/2005 1:45:46 PM PST by La Enchiladita

MEXICO CITY - The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada, confronting the growth of rival groups in Europe and Asia, hope to strengthen their free-trade pact by signing an "Initiative for North America" next week in Texas, Mexico President Vicente Fox said Wednesday.

But Fox made clear that tensions remain over how to secure the countries' borders, criticizing new U.S. walls running along parts of its 2,000-mile frontier with Mexico. "No country that is proud of itself should build walls," he said.

Fox, President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin are scheduled to meet March 23 at Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch during Bush's Easter vacation.

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Speaking at a news conference with U.S. and Canadian reporters, Fox vowed to take legal action against migrant-hunting vigilantes in Arizona and promised to fight terrorism.

. . .

But in both Spanish and English, Fox repeatedly expressed concern about state initiatives to limit rights of migrants and services for them in the United States, and about the U.S. government's effort to slow migration by building walls.

"We are convinced that walls don't work. They should be torn down," Fox said. He called the walls "discriminatory; they attack liberty. So no country that is proud of itself should build walls. Nobody can isolate himself these days."

. . .

He said Mexicans "totally reject" the migrant hunters recently formed in Arizona to help stem the illegal crossings there, which have risen partly because of the construction of walls elsewhere. The vigilantes "are completely in violation of American law itself and in violation of laws anywhere," Fox said.

He said Mexico "will be very alert to react legally against any lawbreaking" by those groups, either under U.S. or international law.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Florida; US: New Mexico; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; bush43; freetrade; illegal; immigration; minuteman; minutemanproject; neighbors; northamerica; paulmartin; prairiechapel; trade; vicentefox; vigilance
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To: devolve
Before smearing all Puerto Ricans maybe you should read some comments of Puerto Rican residents on FR.

Profile Del. Luis Fortuno, R-Puerto Rico

121 posted on 03/16/2005 7:56:01 PM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: spodefly

BTTT - Thanks for saying it for me...


122 posted on 03/16/2005 8:21:14 PM PST by janetgreen
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To: spodefly

HEAR! HEAR!!

For those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

You girly boys (you know which you are), we are going to fight for America regardless the personal costs.

So stand up, sit down or get out of the way.


123 posted on 03/16/2005 8:36:56 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: janetgreen

BUMPER!


124 posted on 03/16/2005 8:37:15 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: ApesForEvolution

Deafening silence from "the other side" on these threads!


125 posted on 03/16/2005 9:35:49 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: Dane; MeekOneGOP; Happy2BMe; PhilDragoo; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; DoughtyOne; ...

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"Before smearing all Puerto Ricans maybe you should read some comments of Puerto Rican residents on FR."

: :

"....all Puerto Ricans....?"

"....smearing.....?"

See Clinton-Reno-Freeh 1999 FBI-DOJ Uniform Crime Report

I used democrat (liberals) official stats from the President Bill Clinton administration

Your beef is with Slick Willie and Janet Reno and Louis Freeh

I am only the "messenger" posting FBI-DOJ info (1999 Uniform Crime Report) I received from (D-CT) US Senator Joseph Lieberman via the USPS.

Note I also referenced many US mainland urban city stats where non-hispanics are in the majority of the local populations - I note no howls of "smearing" from any from those minorities from those urban nightmares.

Liberals and party-psuedo-pollsters tend to say "...everyone knows our agenda is that of most Americans...."

"All Americans agree the Social Security "trust fund?" should not be touched"

"...the majority is for homosexual civil unions...."

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Point out where I said "all" or "non-urban"

Whether London, Madrid, Washington DC, San Juan, Capetown, or most other high-population density urban large cities - they all have big uncontrolled violent crime problems

In WWII and Korea many young Puerto Rican soldiers served honorably and gallantly and many won medals and decorations for bravery in combat.

My post and the comment I replied to had nothing to do with that.

If you can source the 1999 FBI-DOJ Uniform Crime Report of Clinton/Reno/Freeh and any information therein refutes any statement I made feel free to duplicate it here on this thread.

I am hard pressed to recall any instance when I have ever said "all whites" (I fit in here), "all Asians", "all native American Indians" (I fit in here too), "all blacks", "all hispanics", or even "all others" (FBI-DOJ loves the "other" category)

One thing I cannot comprehend is why the FBI-DOJ Uniform Crime Report(s) skip a (very) few ethnic categories yet every other federal or state or college applications ask if the applicant is "Inuit-Martian" (a 2-fer Affirmative-Action check-box hypenated-winner - good for 25 extree points)

As part (authentic) native American Indian (as many are) I will not play Ward Churchill "r-word" games with anyone.

As for the Aztlan radical nutcases in our SW - Just when did their "ancestors" hit our beaches?

Some of mine were here ("on or about") 15,000+ years ago - the others arrived on a cold November 9 day in 1620.

(about 23% of Americans have links to 1620 - It is not an exclusive as most believe it is - See FDR, GW Bush, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Dab Quayle, Calvin Coolidge, The Brit Royals, Winston Churchill, and lots of folks on FR)

Some bloody Viking raider (Leod the Black who "summered" on the Isle of Skye) thrown in also.



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126 posted on 03/16/2005 10:44:01 PM PST by devolve ( My-WWII-Musical-Tribute: http://pro.lookingat.us/WWII.html http://pro.lookingat.us/DeadZone.html)
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To: La Enchiladita

The president hasn't got the moral fortitude to do the right thing with immigration. These greedy businessmen and congress critters are stirring up the makings of a war with trade and immigration policy. And that's where we're headed.


127 posted on 03/16/2005 10:48:20 PM PST by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade. Hang the traitors high)
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To: devolve

Got your six any day of the week, Sir.

And a good weekend with many blessings for you. AFE


128 posted on 03/16/2005 10:52:33 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: k2blader

Yeah, well - the JIG is UP! BTTT


129 posted on 03/16/2005 10:59:36 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: La Enchiladita

El Fox is laying down the ground rules for his joining in the plan to denationalize nations into tade zones. To the elites the nation state is dead, so when is the funeral for the United States of America? I would like to attend.


130 posted on 03/16/2005 11:04:43 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: La Enchiladita

El Fox is laying down the ground rules for his joining in the plan to denationalize nations into tade zones. To the elites the nation state is dead, so when is the funeral for the United States of America? I would like to attend.


131 posted on 03/16/2005 11:08:44 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: devolve
I'll use GREEN bump.

bump!

Happy St. Patty's Day, ya'll.


132 posted on 03/17/2005 1:54:12 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Who is Mexico?


133 posted on 03/17/2005 2:03:31 AM PST by rrrod
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To: devolve
Yeah, you didn't smear ANYBODY.

Some folks just like to stir up some shiite, DV.


134 posted on 03/17/2005 2:15:06 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: rrrod
Who is Mexico?

Who's On First?

Here’s a different version of the same Abbott and Costello bit.
It's the version that was first performed on their television show in 1952. It's a redux of the original scene from "The Naughty Nineties". Of all the versions out there, I've found this one [above] to be the "snappiest". Enjoy.


135 posted on 03/17/2005 2:17:03 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Txsleuth; WestCoastGal

But you forget that w & fox are BBQ buddies. It seems like just about every time w is here fox shows up for the weekend.


136 posted on 03/17/2005 2:21:05 AM PST by ChefKeith (Apply here to be added to the NASCAR Ping List, Daytona is done but we got 33 more races to go...)
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To: Havoc; La Enchiladita; devolve; ApesForEvolution
Uncle Sam And His Little Critters

137 posted on 03/17/2005 4:20:33 AM PST by Happy2BMe (Any nation unable to define its own borders and whose citizenry are but mere residents will perish.)
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To: La Enchiladita

What Mexico wants is no borders for the US. They'll continue to send poor folk north and get nine billion yearly in remittances. These illegals will continue to sap the US economy/welfare/medical to the point of collapse; they will also have many more children than the legal US population. They will Mexicanize this country within a set number of years...(some sociologist could work out the demographics/numbers.) This is an invasion. Deliberate.

The other night, a tv cable channel ran a piece on California, Arizona, and New Mexico jailed illegals. The numbers are mindboggling. Other than grinning widely and looking well fed and clothed, they said they'd done nothing wrong. They have 'rights', and crossing the US border anytime, day or night, is one of them. US citizens are considered fools, dopes, and when illegals take over, the rest of us will lose our 'rights', ala Zimbabwe.


138 posted on 03/17/2005 4:31:46 AM PST by hershey
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Mexico is annexing the US.


139 posted on 03/17/2005 4:32:11 AM PST by hershey
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To: Shermy

Plus Fox has what amounts to a southern border 'wall'. They shoot illegals and if they end up dead...so much the better.


140 posted on 03/17/2005 4:33:49 AM PST by hershey
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