Mexico pleas to President Bush
Last Friday U.S. senate backed the bill to build a 700 mile long fence along the Mexico United States boarder. Early Monday, President Vincent Fox of Mexico asked President Bush to veto this bill. He feels that it would hurt the relationship between the two countries, that it goes against the spirit of cooperation needed to guarantee security on the co mmon border and would create unneeded tensions
between the countries.President Vincent Fox and Mexico are upset about the passing of this bill because over the last 6 years Vincent has worked very hard to come to an agreement with Washington on immigration. Vincent's office term is up this December. President Vincent know that the chances of his plea are changing Bushes views slim, he "but acknowledged that its plea was likely to fall on deaf ears."
The 700 mile long fence was reported early this year; this new development in the story almost makes it look like Mexico is trying to stop the illegal migration of its people to America. Although they want the wall to be stopped I don’t think that it will.
I think that the wall is a little short; the boarder is a lot longer than where they will build the wall. I think that it will help the illegal immigration but on the flip side I can see how this may create tension between America and Mexico. In all extremes we are taking more than two steps backwards to go just one half step forward because building a wall won't stop people from entering the country, what about the Canadian boarder??? I hope this doesn’t become violent...
posted by Anonymous @ 10/05/2006 06:45:00 AM
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A wall will not stop illegal immigration; everyone agrees on this fact. If it were feasibly possible to wall off the Mexican border (leaving political reasons out of this), it's like Mrs. Hartman said in class, "The thousands of dollars people spend to be smuggled through the desert, they'll by a plane ticket to Canada and cross." A better, and possibly more economical, solution would be to stem the problem at the source. People attempt to cross because they know life can be better over the border. If we improved the situation in Mexico, fewer people would cross. Plus, NAFTA could become more rewarding if everyone was on more equal footing in terms of ability to import/export. Judging from the picture, this could become pretty violent rather quickly. One final note: I really didn't think that illegal immigrants from Canada were that big of an issue.
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