Mexico asks neighbors‘ help to halt US fence plan
Mexico‘s foreign minister will meet with counterparts in Central America to seek their backing against a U.S. plan to build a high-tech border fence aimed at holding back illegal immigrants.
Mexicans are incensed by the proposal in the U.S. Congress to erect the fence with lights and security cameras along parts of the border and make illegal immigration a felony.
The meeting with Central American leaders, whose nations also send many undocumented workers to the United States, is Mexico‘s latest move to block the U.S. proposal, which the government of President Vicente Fox has called “disgraceful” and a violation of human rights.
The office of Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez, who met in Washington this week with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick to express opposition to the fence, said on Wednesday that the meeting with Central American leaders was being arranged although no date had been set.
The Mexican Congress, meanwhile, sent a letter to parliaments in Latin America, Spain and Portugal asking for condemnation of the U.S. border security proposal.
More: localnewsleader.com
Mexico's Fox Raps U.S. on Plan for Fence
Mexican President Vicente Fox Calls U.S. Plans to Build Fence on Southern Border 'Shameful'
Mexican President Vicente Fox stepped up his attacks on the United States plan to build a fence along its southern border on Sunday, saying it was a "shameful" initiative for a democracy.
Fox said barriers between nations belonged to the last century and had been torn down by popular uprisings, referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
"This wall is shameful," Fox said at an event for migrants in his home state of Guanajuato.
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Miller votes in favor of fence across U.S.-Mexico border
Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., who has been the target of criticism from a GOP opponent on immigration issues, voted Thursday in favor of a comprehensive immigration bill that includes a plan to construct 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border.
Miller has been the target of a series of blunt ads from his opponent, Republican Vernon Robinson, who recently purchased $30,000 worth of TV ads that criticize Millers stance on illegal immigration.
One radio spot says that if Miller had his way, America would be nothing but one big fiesta for illegal aliens
Virtual fence to protect US-Mexico border
BOEING has been chosen to build a virtual fence using sensors and cameras along the US border with Mexico and Canada to help control illegal immigration in a contract projected to be worth up to $US2billion ($3.2billion).
The Secure Border Initiative, or SBInet, will be launched along a 45km stretch of the border near Tucson, Arizona, and eventually be expanded to some 9656km of border areas, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
What we are looking to build is a virtual fence, a 21st-century virtual fence, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.
Mr Chertoff said the
Groups Advocate Border Fence Along Mexico
A fence already marks the U.S. border with Mexico but in some places, it's no more than a strand of wire or metal rail.
Where a real barrier exists, it works. Illegal immigrants (search) are forced to travel long distances to get around miles of tall steel and razor wire.
Click in the video box to the right for a complete report by FOX News' William LaJeunesse.
Now, a group of border activists are pushing for a new, bigger fence — more like a Berlin Wall — from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.
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Congress debates immigration bills
WASHINGTON — Congress took up legislation to require voters to show proof of citizenship and to build a 700 mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened their attacks on illegal immigration seven weeks before the midterm elections.
The House of Representatives debate on a new photo ID plan for voters, and Senate action on the fence, were part of a get-tough policy on illegal immigrants that Republicans have taken in the wake of failure to agree on broader legislation that would set a path for undocumented workers to attain U.S. citizenship.
House Republican leaders have insisted that
American community in Mexico faces uncertain future
Grady Snell and his neighbors were working on a dead utility pole as the truck drove down the sun-soaked dirt road.
A mid-summer thunderstorm hit the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental the night before knocking out power to parts of the Chamal Valley.
Instead of waiting hours or days for officials to send help, Snell and his neighbors made use of a ladder truck to try and restore power themselves.
Like his American parents who arrived in the area in 1903, Snell and his neighbors are self sufficient and tied to this land where he and
Mexico assails US border fence immigration bill
A bill moving through the U.S. Congress that demands security fencing with lights and cameras be built along the Mexico-U.S. border will not stop the flood of illegal immigrants, Mexico said Friday.
The House of Representatives voted 260-159 late Thursday to require the high-tech fencing along parts of the U.S. border, while seemingly moving away from a White House plan for immigration reform that includes a guest worker program and is backed by Mexico.
Mexican presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said Mexico would keep pushing for a comprehensive immigration reform that expands temporary worker programs.
"An immigration reform
Hillary wants to build a U.S.-Mexico fence first — and shes right
Apart from a well-chosen warning about criminalizing Jesus, Sen. Hillary Clinton hasnt waded too deeply into the details of the immigration mess. Until now.
In an interview Friday, she cited specific goals that could, and hopefully will, become the heart of bipartisan legislation that might actually fix this national crisis. A fence or a wall? Shes for it.
A two-step process, where our borders are secured before the 11 million illegal immigrants already here begin to get legalized? Shes for that, too.
The sudden crackdown by Washington on employers
Kansas City Southern tries to halt Mexico rail deal
U.S. rail operator Kansas City Southern (KSU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) asked Mexico's anti-trust body on Friday to stop Grupo Mexico (GMEXICOB.MX: Quote, Profile, Research) merging its Ferromex rail operations with those of recently purchased Ferrosur.
In a statement, Kansas City Southern's Mexican unit said the merger of Ferromex and Ferrosur, which was bought from Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim's Grupo Carso last month, would limit competition.
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Senate Votes for Fence Along U.S.-Mexico Border
Today conservatives had their first victory in the immigration debate taking place this week on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
The Senate voted 83-16 to build a 350-mile, triple-layered fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and to add a 500-mile vehicle barrier on top of it.
The bill was an amendment to the current immigration reform bill (S. 2611) being considered by the Senate. The bills sponsor, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.), said that by passing my amendment, we are sending a signal that we are serious about stopping the flow of illegal immigrants over the border.
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