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| Building a wall around US a 'huge error': Mexican president-elect |
| 2006-10-26 |
| As the song goes, meet the new boss... OTTAWA (AFP) - The United States committed a "huge error" in choosing to build a wall between itself and its southern neighbor, Mexico's president-elect Felipe Calderon said during a state visit to Canada, comparing it with the Berlin Wall. Yeah. But if we don't build it, Felipe, aren't you afraid you'll be invaded by millions of illegal Americans looking to take all those Mexican jobs. "The wall will not solve any problem. Humanity made a huge mistake by building the Berlin Wall, and I believe that today the United States is committing a grave error in building the wall on our border," he said. Well let's build it and find out... US President George W. Bush on Thursday signed into law a bill authorizing construction of a 1,100-kilometer (700-mile) fence along a third of the US border with Mexico. Some 1.2 billion dollars in funding were earmarked for the fence, in a bid to stanch the steady flow of illegal immigrants into the United States. Calderon said the fence would be expensive to US taxpayers and lead to more Mexican deaths. Some 400 Mexicans died trying to cross the border last year, he noted. Yeah, it'll be expensive. What was his other complaint? Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he accepts US concerns about a safe and secure border, but added: "We obviously caution against things that can cause unnecessary barriers, not just to trade, but to the ordinary exchange of tourism and social relationships between our countries." They ain't "tourists" Mr. Prime Minister. And you know it. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #11 We need a fence and we need a generous guest-worker program that allows employers, particularly in the agricultural sector, to bring in people for seasonal labor. |
| Posted by: mrp 2006-10-26 20:31 |
| #10 Anyone in this country illegally in a time of war should be considered a spy/sabatour |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2006-10-26 20:22 |
| #9 Berlin Wall was about not letting people out, you dimwit. |
| Posted by: Wholuth Snang4610 2006-10-26 20:03 |
| #8 He'll just have to take it up with the UN, lol... |
| Posted by: Raj 2006-10-26 19:35 |
| #7 "What was his other complaint?" Please, please, post beverage alerts BEFORE the line in question... ROTFLMAO! |
| Posted by: Danking_70 2006-10-26 19:18 |
| #6 Betcha that Felipe Calderon has a door on his house with a lock on it, inside a parameter fence, with privite security... |
| Posted by: Procopious2K 2006-10-26 18:34 |
| #5 "Humanity" didn't build the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Bloc did to save them the embarrassment of all the citizens desperate to escape the socialist "paradise." That Calderon doesn't even have the decency to be embarrassed about how many of his citizens want to escape to find a decent life says a lot. Maybe he thinks of them as colonists. And what about the fence they're proposing on their own southern border? |
| Posted by: just sayin 2006-10-26 18:31 |
| #4 He's right. Building the wall IS a huge error. We should instead be shooting illegals on sight and levying long jail sentences and confiscatory fines against those traitors in this country who hire them. We could make that solution work for a hell of a let less than 1.2 billion because it wouldn't take many dead illegals and jailed CEOs before both groups got the message big time and shaped up. |
| Posted by: mac 2006-10-26 17:19 |
| #3 without the illegals sending back wages, Mexico might have to actually do something for their people, other than publishing guides to illegally crossing safely into the US |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-26 17:11 |
| #2 As always ..follow the money. He's afraid a wall will trash the Mexican economy. All the illegals won't be able to send $ home. BTW the Berlin wall was erected to keep people in...big difference. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2006-10-26 16:58 |
| #1 Well of course it would! I mean, why would we want to wall off the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans? Total waste of resources! Sheesh. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-10-26 16:58 |