The Great Wall of Mexico! Brick by Brick by Brick, Mr. President, Please?
The time has come for you to give those of us who refer to ourselves as “We the People” some of idea of how much of a threat to our beloved nation’s domestic security is the porous border which the United States shares with Mexico to the South.
We understand your policy of the defense of Freedom and Liberty for the Free-World, and the majority of us are in agreement with you in the War on Terrorism.
But “We the People” do not want all of the positives and progress which your bold measures in Afghanistan and Iraq as the Commander-in-Chief of the many brave and valiant fighting men and women of America and the coalition to be negated by a seemingly dangerous laxness on our southern border. Two governors whose states form a vital portion of the Mexican border have recently declared a “State of Emergency” in order to help shore up the weak defenses which have existed for too long. This should be heard by you as a call for help from the White House and the Congress with your leadership.
I been waiting for a very long time to hear some substantive solutions to the weaknesses of our southern border from you and your administration. And even more importantly, I have been watching, in vain, for some visible results from such policies, if they even exist. It seems to many of us who have become so anxious that your foreign policy right hand doesn’t know what your domestic left hand is doing concerning the defense of America on our southern border, if anything.
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FRAGILE FOUNDATION
After six years illegally working construction in the United States, Martin Sanchez has come home to this mountainside village transformed.
Sanchez, 23, left here an unskilled laborer with few expectations and a sixth-grade education. Hes returned as a master drywall installer with money in the bank and plans for a prosperous future.
But the changes to Atexcac, a community of 5,000 people clinging to the sunrise side of Mexicos highest volcanoes in central Puebla state, may have been greater still. Rutted dirt roads have been paved, rattletrap buses replaced by cars and pickup trucks, adobe shacks transformed into brick multistory mini-palaces.
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The ''lagoon rain" starts to fall. In the desert of northern Mexico, the rain is dust, thrown by wind. It sets upon the loading yard behind a factory with a clattering contraption marked ''Lummus Cotton Gin Company," ''Columbus, GA USA," and ''Patented July 23, 1935."
Battened tarps squirm and cough. The tractor men
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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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I think that it will be ludicrous to limit yourself to just building a wall, Schwarzenegger said in an interview with US television network ABC. Were going back to the Stone Ages here.
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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.
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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.
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The Mexican Congress is asking legislatures in Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries to join a coalition
