Mexico Promises to Block Border Wall Plan

OK, unless all of the people of Mexico have suddenly become U.S. citizens, this might be a bit hard to pull off.

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government, angered by a U.S. proposal to extend a wall along the border to keep out migrants, pledged Tuesday to block the plan and organize an international campaign against it. 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.
Mexican President Vicente Fox denounced the U.S. measures, passed by the House of Representatives on Friday, as "shameful" and his foreign secretary, Luis Ernesto Derbez, echoed his complaints on Tuesday.
"Mexico is not going to bear, it is not going to permit, and it will not allow a stupid thing like this wall," Derbez said.
"What has to be done is to raise a storm of criticism, as is already happening, against this," he said, promising to turn the international community against the plan.
Some stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border are already marked by fences, but in some heavily-trafficked sections walls have already been erected by the United States, often using 10-foot-high sections of military surplus steel. Those sections, which typically run several miles, can be found in southern Arizona and California.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but how is enforcing the law and having people come to the country legally, a bad thing? Could it be the Mexican government sees a source of income drying up? Maybe the graft and corruption that is so prevalent down there would have to find other funding? Think about it.

Robledo, whose son and mother are U.S. citizens, predicted the measure "would unleash conflict within the United States" as small businesses fail for lack of workers.
He said many Mexicans felt betrayed by the anti-immigrant sentiment.
"We learned to believe in the United States. We have a binational life," he said of Zacatecas, a state that has been sending migrants north for more than a century. "It isn't just a feeling of rejection. It's against what we see as part of our life, our culture, our territory."
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A "binational life"? OK, no problem. You can still have one. Just come to the country legally. A quite simple concept, I think.

Mexicans are outraged by the proposed measures, especially the extension of the border wall, which many liken to the Berlin Wall. Some are urging their government to fight it fiercely.

Now that make me mad. This wall is nothing at all like the Berlin wall. That wall separated two parts of the same country, not two different countries.
Look, if Mexico would take some responsibility here and improve things at home, people wouldn't need to cross illegally. I welcome everyone who comes to this country legally. To the others I say "Stay Out".

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