They're still sweating in the taco motherland
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> On Mar 27, 7:18 am, "bob&carole" > wrote:
>> The Mexicans are afraid that they won't be able to export their
>> leeching citizens anymore.
>>
>> "Build it and they won't come"
>>
>> MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico asked President Bush on Monday to veto
>> a
>> Senate plan to build a border fence to keep illegal immigrants out,
>> but
>> acknowledged that its plea was likely to fall on deaf ears.
>>
>> The U.S. Senate on Friday overwhelmingly backed a bill to put up
>> about
>> 700 miles of fence, a project Republicans hope will impress voters
>> calling for tougher immigration control ahead of November 7
>> congressional elections.
>>
>> "The Mexican government strongly opposes the building of walls in the
>> border area between Mexico and the United States," President Vicente
>> Fox's spokesman Ruben Aguilar told reporters.
>>
>> "This decision hurts bilateral relations, goes against the spirit of
>> cooperation needed to guarantee security on the common border,
>> creates
>> a climate of tension in border communities," he said.
>>
>> Aguilar said Mexico would send a diplomatic note to Washington on
>> Monday urging Bush to veto the bill, which requires the president's
>> signature to become law.
>>
>> Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said the chance of Bush
>> vetoing the bill was very slim, as the U.S. president has already
>> said
>> he would not take that step.
>>
>> "I would say it is almost nil," Derbez told Mexican radio. "What we
>> want to do is simply make our position clear."
>>
>> Bush had hoped for broad immigration legislation that would create a
>> guest-worker program, which would match workers with jobs Americans
>> are
>> unwilling to do. But House of Representatives Republicans had pushed
>> for greater emphasis on sealing the porous frontier.
>>
>> Mexicans are livid about the fence plan, which is seen as a slap in
>> the
>> face to efforts during Fox's near-completed six-year term to come to
>> an
>> agreement with Washington on immigration.
>>
>> President-elect Felipe Calderon, who takes office on December 1, also
>> has lambasted the fence plan and the issue promises to prickle his
>> relationship with Washington from the outset.
>>
>> Hundreds of Latin Americans, mostly Mexicans, die each year crossing
>> perilous rivers and deserts separating the two countries, and tougher
>> control has increased fatalities.
>
> Our scumbags in Washington are too busy appeasing the cheap labor
> lobby, National Chamber of Commerce, and groveling
> for votes. Meantime American citizens are being slaughtered by illegal
> aliens. Over 2,100 murdered last year and appx. another 5,000
> butchered on our highways by mostly drunken illegal hispanics.
>
The cheaper the labor, the less it cost to buy the goods and services people
need. The higher the labor cost is, the higher the cost to buy the goods
and services people need. There is no free lunch.......
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