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Mexico's Calderon Rips Border Wall Plan
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon on Monday slammed U.S. plans to build more fences on its southern border, saying it would not solve illegal immigration. ``We are worried ... about the actions that the United States is discussing concerning building a border wall and tightening restrictions on migrants,'' Calderon said after meeting with Mexico's foreign secretary.
We like you, Felipe, and we prefer you to the other guy, but we're still building the fence.
President Vicente Fox, of Calderon's conservative National Action Party, has called the plans ``shameful'' and said the fence would be like the Berlin Wall. Calderon succeeds Fox on Dec. 1.

There are an estimated 11 million Mexicans in the United States, about half of whom are illegal. Last year, Mexican migrants sent home more than $20 billion in remittances.
That's what it's all about from the Mexican side, the remittances and the relief of social pressure.

Posted by: Steve White 2006-09-26
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