Both Mexican President Vicente Fox and President-elect Felipe Calderon are crying over the legislation President Bush signed yesterday funding a 700-mile stretch of fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Apparently our attempts to secure our borders, pathetic as they are
(the border is 1,951 miles long, not 700. You're coming up a little short, Congress) are making them very upset, as they realize that the 11 billion dollar a year injection to their economy is about to take a serious hit. They might actually have to reform their own policies and politics, instead of just passing their problems up to us.
From the article, a few interesting quotes:
"The decision made by Congress and the U.S. government is deplorable," Calderon said while on tour in Canada. "Humanity committed a grave error by constructing the Berlin wall and I am sure that today the United States is committing a grave error in constructing a wall along our northern border."
Excuse me, Mr. Calderon? The Berlin Wall was constructed to keep people IN. We are building this wall in order to keep people OUT. Slight difference there. You'd better concentrate on the grave errors that your government continues to make, before you worry about another sovereign nation protecting its borders.
"The Mexican foreign ministry later said in a news release that the construction of a wall affects the United States' relationship with Mexico, as well as with Central American countries, from which thousands emigrate northward."
How perceptive. With analysis like that, how can they go wrong?
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Two minor points of clarification:
1) The bill that Bush signed did not provide funding for the 700 miles of fence, that was done previously in a homeland security bill. This bill allows for the "fence"
2) It's actually not a fence. It gives DHS folks the responsibility to secure the border by whatever means they deem best, including things like cameras and more personnel. Oh, and fences.
Regardless of those two minor points, the primary message of your post is definitely right-on, Americans are basically supporting two economies at once and it's time for that to stop.
Fortunately all Bush could do today is whine his amnesty proposal didn't fly. We don't have the resources to track them all down and deport them, but let's not grant them immunity. If we find them (usually though criminal activities), let the INS do their job and send them home.
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