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2005-01-27 Caribbean-Latin America

Condi Gets Busy! State Dept Warns Against Travel to Mexican Border

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-27 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If I were Condi, I'd put the squeeze on Boxer by deploying a "Virtual Iron Curtain" on the Mexican border to California! With the grilling she took from Boxer, as though she were applying for the Secretary of Defense post; alittle payback could be sweet! With the Mexicans swarming all over California government restricting ebb and flow to south of the border...I'm sure Boxer or Arnie would come crawling to "W" for relief!

Posted by smn 2005-01-27 12:46:02 AM|| 2005-01-27 12:46:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd be a lot more impressed if the announcement made reference to travel being inadvisible because of the likelihood of tourists getting in the way of the six infantry divisions being deployed on the border...

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2005-01-27 1:18:49 AM|| 2005-01-27 1:18:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting Ricky, however Vicente Fox would go nuts over such a deployment and counter protest with a Mexican boycott of influxing labor to the US (sealing the border from his end), thus affecting our economy in the short fall. Border labor states would 'cry' to the Administration through the Congress! My feeling is, we would slowly need to tap the spigot.

Posted by smn 2005-01-27 3:43:31 AM|| 2005-01-27 3:43:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ricky, I'm w/you. Let Fox go nuts. For those corporations that care more about cheap labor then they do American security/sovereignty and the rule of law - I say f*ck you, learn to adapt.

Posted by Jarhead 2005-01-27 10:28:55 AM|| 2005-01-27 10:28:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 smn - nuts! Close the border - gates are for screening, and IF we need their labor they can come in on guest-worker visas. I could care less whether Fox cuts his wrists or not, nor could I care if my chicken costs twice as much because Tyson has to quit undermining our national interests for their profits. We'll get over it. Either you don't live in a border state, as I do, or you have blinders on. A Mexican boycott? sheeesh

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-27 10:33:25 AM|| 2005-01-27 10:33:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm all for closing the border, but nobody said nothing about doubling the price of no chickens. 49 cent lb. chicken quarters and 10 cent lettuce are what make America great.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-27 3:25:42 PM|| 2005-01-27 3:25:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 That and plenty of smashed 'taters, right Ship?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-01-27 7:02:21 PM|| 2005-01-27 7:02:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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