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Posted on 02/14/2006 9:58:04 AM PST by VU4G10
CARTAGENA, Colombia - Latin American diplomats teamed up Monday to lobby Washington against a tough immigration plan that would include a large wall along the Mexico-U.S. border to keep out illegal immigrants.
Foreign ministers from 11 Latin American countries gathered in the seaside resort city of Cartagena, where they decided to send a scouting mission to Washington next week to identify key U.S. lawmakers on the immigration debate, Salvadoran Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez announced.
The region will urge those lawmakers in coming weeks to change or defeat altogether a bill making its way through the U.S. Congress that would make it harder for undocumented immigrants to get jobs and would authorize construction of a fence along parts of the 2,000-mile Mexico-U.S. border.
Carolina Barco, Colombia's foreign minister, said immigrants' contribution to U.S. development ``has been fundamental . . . but due to Sept. 11, the pendulum seems to have shifted in the opposite direction and migration is looked upon with a distrusting eye.''
''The point we have made with clarity is that [the border wall] doesn't seem to us to be the solution,'' said Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez.
The countries meeting in Cartagena -- Mexico, Central American nations, Colombia, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic -- met in January in Mexico City to discuss the same issue, demanding the United States to implement guest-worker programs and legalize undocumented migrants. At that meeting, they also condemned proposals for tougher border enforcement.
The U.S. House of Representatives already approved the bill in December, and the Senate will consider a version of the law next month.
Authorities estimate there are about 11 million undocumented migrants in the United States, the majority of them coming from Latin America -- mostly Mexico, but also countries as far away as Colombia and Ecuador.
These workers have come to play an important part in Latin American economies, sending billions of dollars home to their families each year.
Separately, Mexican lawmakers announced Sunday they were sending a congressional delegation to Washington this week to push for a migration accord and lobby against the border wall.
The foreign ministers plan to meet again in March, Barco said.
The one-day meeting was being held in Cartagena's Convention Center, just a few yards away from elaborate, thick walls that encircle Cartagena's old town. The walls, thicker than the length of a car and topped by cannons, were built in the 16th century to protect this Caribbean port city from marauding pirates and other foreign intruders.
They object to "a fence".
a fence...
These political OLIGARCHIES of south america are worried they will have people suddenly turn on them instead of fleeing to the USA. They are just doing what castro did with the mariel boat lift only slower.
I guarantee you that our leaders in Washington will to these Latin American foreign ministers before they listen to the American people.
The folks down south of the border have far more say in what goes on in this country than we do.
I guarantee you that our leaders in Washington will to these Latin American foreign ministers before they listen to the American people.
The folks down south of the border have far more say in what goes on in this country than we do.
Colombia is our best friend in Latin America, with a conservative president who has always supported Bush (and been supported by him in turn). If this were just Mexico and the Central American countries, that would be one thing, but with Colombia it's a different story.
General Santa Anna
Since the Chinese paved the way to power in DC with their vast buckets of cash.
Now, every tird world country that wants something just follows their lead, including Jihadis.
Whoops! Thanks for the correction.
The countries who are engaged in active invasion by their hordes and drugs are complaining about our putting a stop to it!!
BTTT
Deport ALL criminal invaders ~ Bump!
Latin America: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much!
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If they think that then can intimdate us into silence and then steal our country, then they are crazy. US citizens will retaliate with all means possible since the federal government won't do it.
Latin America? Oh ya, that's those countries on the wrong side of our southern wall. Let them suck rocks
Build the wall. Put a minefield on the outside of it. Put automated machine guns about every 100 yds or so. Leave the bodies to rot in the sun as a sign to other trespassers
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