Garza says Bush is opposed to wall along Mexico border
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said Thursday that the Bush administration is against proposals to build a wall along the United States’ entire southern border.
“The president is aware of the concerns of critics who would like to build a wall around the United States,” Garza told a small group of foreign correspondents. “As the former governor of Texas, he knows that such proposals are both unrealistic and undesirable.”
Some lawmakers have proposed building a wall from California to the Gulf of Mexico to stop the millions of undocumented workers who sneak over the border with Mexico.
Garza said that the best way to regulate immigration is to approve President Bush’s proposals for a guest worker program.
He said building a wall also would not help the United States’ relations with its Latin American neighbors, relations that appeared frayed during the Summit of the Americas.
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Mexico opposes US plan to build more barriers along border
Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said Wednesday that Mexico opposed the US plan to build more separation walls along the border between the two countries.
The plan will not help resolve the problem of illegal migration that bothers the two countries, Derbez told reporters.
The Mexican objection to the walls is not directed against the United States or President George W. Bush but rather the country's long-standing stance on migration, he said.
Mexico opposed walls along any borders, anywhere in the world, including the ones in Gaza, said the foreign
Mexico's ambassador to the United States says many Americans opposed to border wall
Many Americans are opposed to a U.S. proposal to build 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) of additional fences along the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexico's ambassador to the United States said Thursday.
Carlos de Icaza told W Radio in Mexico City that U.S. businesses, church groups and even politicians have "clearly indicated their opposition to measures that could put the economy of the country in danger."
Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez has called on other Latin American countries to unite against a U.S. House of Representatives bill to toughen border
Bush, Fox Discuss Mexico Border Security
President Bush and President Vicente Fox of Mexico exchanged ideas Monday on how to stop violence and improve security along the two countries' mutual border, the White House said.
Press secretary Scott McClellan said that Bush telephoned Fox while traveling here to give a speech and said the pair "talked about working together" to improve conditions that have been a source of friction between the two countries.
McClellan told reporters that Bush has designated Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to talk to his counterpart in Mexico about the problem and said that Bush and Fox also talked
Bush vows to make U.S.-Mexico border more secure
President Bush rekindled a debate Monday in his own party, proposing a crackdown on illegal aliens at the Mexican border while allowing some undocumented immigrants to work in the United States.
"We are going to protect the border," Bush vowed in a speech at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz.
In his latest effort to shore up his conservative base, Bush insisted a crackdown would also prevent terrorists from entering the country. He wants 1,000 more border patrol guards, as well as cameras and listening devices, along the border.
But much to the displeasure
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - He married Mexico's richest woman, is an old pal of U.S. President George W. Bush and now Washington's envoy south of the Rio Grande is stirring up controversy in a dispute over crime and immigration on the U.S.-Mexican border.
U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza upset Mexico this week by boasting he had shut a consular office in a border city to "punish" the country for failing to halt a drug war there.
It was the latest in a series of run-ins with Mexico's government that have earned Garza a reputation as a bully who, despite his Hispanic
Wall will protect U.S. and Mexico
President Bush is determined to stay the course in Iraq, but he is willing to change course on U.S. border security.
Sometimes flexibility is both rewarded and required.
The president has long been reluctant to address border security. That reluctance has been found in both parties. Republicans like the idea of cheap labor coming in. Democrats savor the prospect of more Democrats coming in. The bipartisan elite has been bewitched by the idea that America is an "open" nation where anyone can become a good American simply by coming here - legally or illegally.
The working and middle
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico spoke volumes with one provocative word.
Everybody makes mistakes — even diplomats, whose jobs call for extreme verbal precision to convey their countries' coolness, pique, displeasure and high dudgeon. When foreign relations finally boil over, an ambassador's silence — produced by recalling him for consultation — is diplomaticspeak for, "This is serious." It is rare, however, for a diplomat to use insulting language unless it is intentional.
Tony Garza, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, is claiming that a small international furor he prompted last week resulted from a misstatement. No one's really buying it. Earlier this month,
US-Mexico border wall would be 'disgraceful' - Fox
Mexican President Vicente Fox denounced as "disgraceful and shameful" yesterday a proposal to build a high-tech wall on the US-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants.
Concerned about the huge numbers of illegal immigrants streaming across the border and worried it could be an entry point for terrorists, a US lawmaker has proposed building two parallel steel and wire fences running from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Coast. But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said a wall running the length of a border would cost too much.
Mexico has expressed indignation
Mexico angrily vows to block proposed U.S. border wall
The Mexican government, angered by a U.S. proposal to extend a wall along the border to keep out migrants, pledged Tuesday to block the plan and organize an international campaign against it.
Facing a growing tide of anti-immigrant sentiment north of the border, the Mexican government has taken out ads urging Mexican workers to denounce rights violations in the United States. It also is hiring an American public-relations firm to improve its image and counter growing U.S. concerns about immigration.
Mexican President Vicente Fox denounced the U.S. measures, passed by the House of
Mexico warning on US border wall
The construction of a wall is not the answer to illegal immigration into the US, the Mexican president has said.
Immigration was the most pressing challenge in ties with the US but also their greatest opportunity, Vicente Fox said on the second day of his US visit.
It comes amid fierce US debate over an immigration reform bill which could benefit millions of Mexican migrants.
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