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"Don Gabacho" <jpastore@nettaxi.com> wrote in message
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> But adds: "Good fences don't always make good neighbors" as if the U.S.
> should care anymore:
>
> Mexico's ambassador says immigration debate is "emotional"
>
> By MEGAN REICHGOTT Associated Press Writer
> June 19, 2006
>
> CHICAGO- While the United States has the right to debate its own laws
> on immigration, border enforcement won't be successful without Mexico's
> participation, Mexico's ambassador to the United States said Monday.
>
> "We respect in Mexico the sovereign right of the United States to
> enforce its laws and to secure its borders, but we have a friendly
> message: We are part of the solution, not only part of the problem,"
> Carlos de Icaza said in a speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign
> Relations.
>
>
> Illegal immigration has become a contentious issue this year in
> Washington, with both House and Senate passing bills addressing the
> country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.
>
> Under the Senate bill, which is supported by President Bush, most
> illegal immigrants eventually could become legal permanent residents
> and citizens after paying fines, fees and back taxes and learning
> English. The Senate bill has to be reconciled with a House immigration
> measure passed in 2005 that contains no guest-worker provision, would
> make illegal entry a felony and enlist military and local police to
> help stop undocumented migrants.
>
> The flow of illegal immigrants won't stop if it is treated as a law
> enforcement issue or by fortifying the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border
> with a fence, said De Icaza, who has been ambassador since March 2004.
>
> "We have to protect our border but we have to protect something else.
> With all due respect, good fences don't always make good neighbors," he
> said.
>
> The heated debate, especially in border states like Arizona, New
> Mexico, and Texas, makes it easy to forget that the illegal immigrants
> are people, De Icaza said.
>
> "We understand that it is emotional. We understand that it is complex.
> It's about human beings. It's about families. But it's essential
> recognizing that there is a human dimension," he said.
>
> De Icaza said much of the immigration issue revolves around Mexico's
> economy, which is improving, but not generating the kinds of jobs that
> are as attractive to the country's younger workers who are drawn by the
> "magnet" of prospects in America.
>
> "We haven't created in my country all the necessary economic
> opportunities for having our people stay in Mexico. We want our people
> to stay in Mexico," De Icaza said.
>
> Progress only will occur if the U.S. government expands guest worker
> programs that allow more foreigners to enter the country legally and
> work, De Icaza said.
>
Send these hispanic scumbags back across the border.

Hank

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