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Mexico threatening to take U.S. to the U.N. over border fenc

agreeable

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Mexico threatening to take U.S. to the U.N. over border fence
The Associated Press

Mexico's foreign secretary said the country may take to the United Nations a dispute over the United States' plans to build a fence on the Mexican border.
Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters in Paris, his first stop on a European tour, that a legal investigation was under way to determine whether Mexico has a case.
The Mexican government last week sent a diplomatic note to Washington, criticizing the plan for 700 miles of new fencing along the border. President-elect Felipe Calderon also denounced the plan, but said it was a bilateral issue that should not be put before the international community.
Derbez said Monday after meeting with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy that it was a "shame" U.S. immigration policy had been used for what he claimed was a short-term political gain in the lead-up to midterm elections in the United States in November.
He said he discussed the issue with Douste-Blazy and planned to bring it up in meetings with his Spanish and Italian counterparts during visits to Madrid and Rome. He vowed to work on the case until the "very last day" of President Vicente Fox's term, which ends Dec. 1.
The U.S. Senate approved the border fence bill last month and President Bush has said he will sign it into law — despite last-minute pleas from the Mexican government for a veto.
"What should be constructed is a bridge in relations between the two countries," Derbez said

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Anonymous

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Too bad the 9/11 terrorists didn't miss the World Trade Center and hit the UN Building- would have done the US a favor.........
 

Steve

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"What should be constructed is a bridge in relations between the two countries," Derbez said

we already have paths, trails, ladders, roads, tunnels, now they want a bridge., ....
 

andybob

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Oldtimer said:
Too bad the 9/11 terrorists didn't miss the World Trade Center and hit the UN Building- would have done the US a favor.........
No, Oldtimer, done the World a favour, far too late for me though!
 

Cowpuncher

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For years, the US has acted like a bunch of cowards regarding the border with Mexico.

A few years back(under the Clinton Administration) my son's Marine engineer Company was sent to the border to repair the border road washed out by a flood on the Rio Grande.

They were not allowed to have any weapons, even to guard their equipment at night. I asked my son how they kept theives away from their bulldozers and other equipment. They left it totally unguarded at night.

They had to cut into a rock cliff to reroute the road about 1/8 mile from the border. They were chipping away at it with a concrete breaker. How come no explosives since the job could be done in hours instead of weeks with some well placed charges.

Can't do it, explained my son. We can't use explosives with 1/4 mile of the border.

Whose country is it, anyway.

Clinton had a backbone made of wet spaghetti.
 
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