{"id":51,"date":"2005-12-15T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-10-27T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T14:04:30","slug":"two-southern-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2005\/two-southern-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Southern Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In comments obviously for national consumption, <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&#038;storyid=2005-12-15T044936Z_01_SPI517348_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-MEXICO-USA.xml&#038;rpc=22\">Mexican President Vicente Fox<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>denounced as &#8220;disgraceful and shameful&#8221; on Wednesday a proposal to build a high-tech wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned about the huge numbers of illegal immigrants streaming across the border and worried it could be an entry point for terrorists, a U.S. lawmaker has proposed building two parallel steel and wire fences running from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Coast. But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said a wall running the length of a border would cost too much.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico has expressed indignation at the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Fox, speaking in Tamaulipas state across the border from Texas, said such extreme security measures would violate immigrants&#8217; rights.<\/p>\n<p>He again called for the easing of U.S. immigration laws to benefit millions of undocumented Mexican fruit pickers, waiters and janitors working north of the border&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Se\u00f1or Presidente, una idea, por favor. (&#8220;Mr. President, an idea, please.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Treat the illegals on <i>your<\/i> southern border as you would have the US treat illegals on its southern border.<\/li>\n<li>How about easing <i>your<\/i> immigration laws to benefit those Central Americans entering (and wishing to enter) through <i>your<\/i> southern border?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps you should show the US how it&#8217;s done. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a (wild) thought.<\/p>\n<p><b>DISCLAIMER:<\/b> I have no ill-will for Mr. Fox nor his countrymen (there or here). For the record, Mexico is the land of my infancy, childhood and youth, though not quite of my nativity. I also served there five years as a missionary. 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