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Thread ID: 17407 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2005-03-19
2005-03-19 22:28 | User Profile
From The Arizona Republic: [url]http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0316fox-ON.html[/url]
Mexican president tells U.S. to control extremists
Chris Hawley Republic Mexico City Bureau Mar. 16, 2005 06:42 PM
MEXICO CITY - Anti-immigrant sentiment appears to be growing in the United States, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday, and he urged U.S. officials to act quickly to control movements like the 950-member-strong Minuteman Project on the Mexico-Arizona border.
Fox said he plans to push for U.S. immigration reform during a meeting with President Bush in Texas next week. He also said the two leaders, along with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, likely will announce a plan to expand the scope of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission recently issued a warning about several new grass-roots movements inspired by Arizona's Proposition 200. Other Mexican officials have cited the Minuteman Project, a plan by activists to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border during April, as a sign of rising extremism.
"There are signs of these kinds of problems present today, and (they are) progressing," Fox said during a news conference for foreign reporters. "We have to act quickly and on time to prevent these kinds of actions."
He said Mexico was watching the Minuteman Project carefully and would take action in U.S. courts or international tribunals if any of the activists break the law.
"We totally reject the idea of these migrant-hunting groups," Fox said. "We will use the law, international law and even U.S. law to make sure that these types of groups, which are a minority . . . will not have any opportunity to progress."
Organizers of the Minuteman Project say they have signed up more than 950 volunteers, including 30 pilots with aircraft, to patrol the border for 30 days beginning April 1. The activists say they will notify the Border Patrol if they see border-crossers and will not confront them directly.
Minuteman co-organizer Chris Simcox said participants were exercising their constitutional rights.
"Vicente Fox can rant and rave all he wants, but he obviously doesn't understand what a democracy means," Simcox said. "We have been working within the law."
Fox also harshly criticized the construction of walls along the border, including a new "triple fence" planned for the San Diego area.
"We are convinced that walls don't work. They should be torn down," he said. "No country that is proud of itself should build walls. No one can isolate himself these days."
Fox said he understood Americans' concern about protecting their southern border. But he denied that terrorists have snuck into the United States through Mexico, as the FBI's director recently said.
"We have absolutely no evidence of that," he said.
Fox is meeting with Bush and Martin on Wednesday at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and at Bush's ranch in nearby Crawford. It's an effort to get North American cooperation back on track after the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Fox said he will push for action on a "guest worker" program in the United States. He said the United States population is aging and will need Mexican labor in the future, and that turning millions of undocumented Mexicans into legal, tax-paying workers could help keep the Social Security system afloat.
The three leaders likely will announce a plan aimed at further integrating their countries' economies to compete against other trade blocs, Fox said. He called it a "new vision" that will not change the existing treaty.
It will include new border security measures, ways to share customs duties, and a continent-wide energy policy, he said. Other sections will focus on education, technology, and the financial sectors, he said.
NAFTA's critics say the 1994 trade pact has cost American manufacturing jobs while hurting Mexican farmers. But Fox noted the average Mexican income has more than doubled to $6,505 a year.
Fox said the boom of assembly plants along the border has actually helped stop illegal border-crossing, by providing jobs for people who would have gone to the United States.
"That's also part of security on the border, to have this cushion where people can find a job on the Mexican side," he said.
2005-03-19 23:04 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Fox said he plans to push for U.S. immigration reform during a meeting with President Bush in Texas next week.[/QUOTE] Note to Bush: take vaseline.
2005-03-19 23:15 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Note to Bush: take vaseline.[/QUOTE]
Bush won't need vaseline--he'll be too busy fellating Fox.
2005-03-20 00:09 | User Profile
Ah! But you forgot that minister of Fox's that has been running his mouth about the border. God help us if Bush ever had a meeting with Fox and Sharon at the [B]same time[/B]. I doubt if we would have a nation left by the time those two got done with him. [QUOTE]"There are signs of these kinds of problems present today, and (they are) progressing," Fox said during a news conference for foreign reporters. "We have to act quickly and on time to prevent these kinds of actions."[/QUOTE] That's right, Vincente. It appears there may be a critical mass of folks coming to for who have had enough of this "propositional nation" crap.
2005-03-20 04:24 | User Profile
The more I read the more confuse I get, at three different sites (last one at Rense . com) that there is a plan TO DO AWAY with the borders of Mexico US and Canada US and that would make three countries into one playground.
That ould mean that you would have the illegals from South and Central America going into Mexico and then into the US as Mexicans? Illegals pretending to be illegals?......really confusing.
2005-03-27 01:20 | User Profile
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2005-03-27 04:43 | User Profile
perhaps if the rule of law wasnt such an open joke, there wouldnt be militias guarding the border.
also, the 3 leaders signed some new agreement last night, or so i heard while i was flopping on the couch lol.
2005-03-27 07:17 | User Profile
Vinnie the Fox commands and Jorge Arbusto obeys. Good little poodle.
2005-03-28 08:25 | User Profile
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