New York Times
Mexican workers in the United States sent home a record $20 billion to relatives and friends this year.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Angered by a bill in the U.S. Congress aimed at cracking down on undocumented workers, Mexican President Vicente Fox urged Americans on Sunday not to forget that many of their ancestors emigrated to the United States.
The legislation, which foresees building a high-tech fence on parts of the U.S.-Mexican border to stop illegal immigrants, neared passage in the U.S. House of Representatives last week.
The legislation, which has divided Republicans, would also make it harder for U.S. employers to hire illegal aliens and make it a felony to live in the United States illegally.
"It's a very bad sign, which does not speak well of a country that is proud of being democratic, proud of being a country of immigrants,'' Fox said in a speech to relatives of Mexican migrants. were also a country of laws
Mexican workers in the United States sent home a record $20 billion to relatives and friends this year.
Last week, Fox described the proposal to put up security fences with lighting and cameras on the border as disgraceful, and Mexican officials have likened it to the construction of the Berlin Wall.
"Walls belong in the last century. They were knocked down by people in the search of liberty and democracy,'' Fox said on Sunday.
When you have people that are you illegally entering your yard in your home without permission, you put up a fence and locked the door to try and control the situation.
With almost 1.2 million people that were arrested last year and an estimated 11 million undocumented aliens living and working in the United States, definitely shows that there is a problem that is out of control and needs to be dealt with.
President Fox has forgotten that it is not the fact that we do not want immigrants here, it is that we do not want ILLEGAL immigrants here.
I am sure that others feel the same way that I do, if Fox helped to get the situation at the borders under control, I would be glad to support President Bush's guest worker policy, but why should President Fox wished to change anything when they are bringing in an estimated $20 billion into the Mexican economy each year.
It sounds like, Fox is more concerned about the money than he really is about is people, otherwise, he would be more focused on making his own homeland better for his people to reduce the number of immigrants leaving his country.
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"They were knocked down by people "
Sounds to me like he has made a threat. Watch the walls be vandalized in an attempt to stop their completion.
Fox will order his people to stop the fence and many will die trying.
A silent war was declared long ago, we need to wake up and fight back.
Dig a trench and line it with land mines.
To speak at Mr. Fox's analogy of walls and Germany, would that make his country more like East Germany, considering most people were fleeing East Germany heading west?
You would think if Mr.Fox was so determined to provide his people with a better life, he would be working to enact domestic policy that would quell the corruption in Mexico as well as provide jobs for his people rather than urging his people to flee their country and head to the US.
Right on! Fox and Bush are hypocrites on the issue. Everyone in the Americas is descended from immigrants, and that includes Fox and his spanish-speaking countrymen.
But for the last century and a half or so, we have had countries, borders, and laws to govern immigration, and Fox would continue to make a mockery of our soverignity. What's that line about the Fox guarding the henhouse?
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