Mexico urges Bush to veto U.S. border fence bill
Posted on October 2, 2006
Good fences make good neighbors. Well, Mexico’s President Fox doesn’t think so.
Mexico pleaded with President Bush on Monday to veto a Senate proposal to build a new fence to keep illegal immigrants out, saying it could backfire by making the border more dangerous.
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly backed a bill on Friday to construct about 700 miles of fence, a project Republicans hope will impress voters calling for tougher immigration control ahead of November 7 congressional elections.
“The Mexican government strongly opposes the building of walls in the border area between Mexico and the United States,” President Vicente Fox’s spokesman Ruben Aguilar told reporters on Monday.
“This decision hurts bilateral relations, goes against the spirit of cooperation needed to guarantee security on the common, creates a climate of tension in border communities,” he said.
What is with this “security of the common” stuff and how would a fence go against it?
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Apparently the head of Mexico’s Central Bank didn’t get the memo:
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Here’s the quote:
“When the head of Mexico’s central bank told a Texas newspaper last week that a new wall between the United States and his country might not be such a bad thing, his remarks were front-page news here. Surprisingly, there were few public expressions of disagreement.
“It would be best to keep its people in Mexico, and it would give incentives for Mexico to create jobs that are needed,” Guillermo Ortiz, the bank official, said in an interview with the editorial board of The Dallas Morning News.”
Aye. If that’s not the definition of “pork”, I don’t know what is.
Why can’t we just admit that you can’t build a wall long enough and high enough to prevent people with astronomically high economic incentives from circumventing it?
Our tremendous natural resources and innovative capitalist economy allowed us to build an extremely wealthy nation relative to the rest of the world. But let’s face it, the rest of the world is figuring out the formula and it’s only a matter of time before they catch up. The wealth gap is going to decrease. Not even the most insanely isolationist policy is going to make water flow uphill.
Why can’t we just create an immigration system that rewards people for using the front door? It will make it a heck of a lot easier to spot the ones (terrorists) that know they won’t be allowed through the front.
Aye. If that’s not the definition of “pork”, I don’t know what is.
You are right… you don’t know what is.
Good fences make good neighbors. A popular and well remembered adage because it is true.
Everytime a fence is built, it serves it’s purpose.
When Israel built theirs, the ones crying about it were the ones who couldn’t get over or around it, and those who supported the suicide missions that were thwarted.
A better definition of “pork” would be a 250 million dollar “bridge to nowhere”. IMO.
Fox is obviously defending the Security And Prosperity Partnership Plan that would basically unite Canada, Mexico, and The United States in a North American Union to rival the European Union.
I object as I am not willing to sacrifice my hopes that we will return to the values of our founders yet.
What is with this “security of the common” stuff and how would a fence go against it?
Simple: A fence would actually slow illegal immigration, which would put more pressure on the Mexican government to actually fix their economy before the citizens decide to throw a revolution.
The only ’security’ Vincente Fox is worried about is his job security.