US House votes to wall up Mexico border

[Bubba]

The House of Representatives voted to build a wall along the US border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration.

The 260-159 voice vote on an amendment to a bill on illegal immigration "mandates the construction of specific security fencing, including lights and cameras, along the Southwest border for the purposes of gaining operational control of the border.

"Fencing has been designated in sectors that have the highest number of immigrant deaths, instances of drug smuggling and illegal border crossings," because of the large number of would-be immigrants who die in the desert attempting to cross the US border.

The US border with Canada was not forgotten. The bill "includes a requirement for the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a study on the use of physical barriers along the Northern border."

The US-Mexico border is 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) long.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051216...o_051216073139





How's this for credibility, nothing I made up in this post.

[TexKan]

wooo weeee.......problem is I'll give ya 3 guesses who the contractors will hire to do the job. Either way I will take the border cause when they are done maybe President Fox can take care of his own citizens instead of us doing it for him.

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by TexKan

...Either way I will take the border cause when they are done maybe President Fox can take care of his own citizens instead of us doing it for him.

I read an article yesterday or the day before that had President Fox saying that if the US put up a fence or wall at the border that it would be violating the rights of the Mexican's.

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by Bubba

I read an article yesterday or the day before that had President Fox saying that if the US put up a fence or wall at the border that it would be violating the rights of the Mexican's.

Sounds like he finished off the tequila and swallowed the worm.

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by Bubba

I read an article yesterday or the day before that had President Fox saying that if the US put up a fence or wall at the border that it would be violating the rights of the Mexican's.

Fox is an idiot. Just like the comment he made that the mexicans do the jobs that even blacks won't do.

[lurker]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...cstillwell.DTL

It turns out that racism in Mexico, both against blacks and dark-skinned indigenous Indians, has a long history. Mexico's colonial past has left its mark on modern-day society. Prejudice toward "pureblood" Indians from those who are "mixed-blood" (Spanish and Indian) is rife. Almost uniformly, people who are darker-skinned and of Indian descent make up the peasantry and working classes, while lighter-skinned, Spanish-descent Mexicans are in the ruling elite. Fox himself comes from that background, as his appearance makes evident.

This inequality may explain in part why the majority of immigrants coming into the United States fall into the darker-skinned category. Beyond the failure of the Mexican government to sustain a decent economy, darker-skinned Mexicans have a difficult time getting work because of job discrimination. According to the Web site IndigenousPeople.net, "sixty percent of Indians over 12 years of age are already unemployed, and of those who work, most earn less than the minimum wage of about $2.50 a day."

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Slave Trade in Mexico

Although the study of slavery tends to focus exclusively on the United States, it was widely practiced in the ancient world and later by various people around the world, including of course Europe. It was the Spanish slave trade that first brought Africans to Mexico, as early as 1520. Although slaves were initially treated more like personal servants and Christianized before their arrival, the Spanish crown soon expanded the practice into a full-blown slave trade. The population of blacks grew to outnumber the Spanish and eventually reached 200,000. With Mexico's independence in 1829, slavery was finally abolished after almost 300 years.

But slavery had taken its toll on the remnants of African culture, and intermarriage with indigenous people, and to a lesser extent with the Spanish, created a population of mixed-bloods, or mulattos. The descendants of these people continued to intermarry, which may be why the contemporary Afro-Mexican population is relatively small.

So why did Fox ask for money? Cuz Uncle Sugar always hands it out.
We don't have a race problem; we have a Government problem.

[Highwayman]

Maybe if we point out to Washington how politically incorrect those folks are, the wall will get build, free money will stop flowing and Fox will get his wrist slapped.

[Bigun]

Originally Posted by TexKan

wooo weeee.......problem is I'll give ya 3 guesses who the contractors will hire to do the job.

Yup, that was the first thing I thought when I read the title of this thread! You got it dead on there Tex girl!

[Army_of_One]

How ironic is that....Hire some illegals to build a wall across the border...

If we build a wall, not only might we keep some of the illegals out...think of all the poor, poor, illegals that won't be able to go home for Christmas ( I can still say CHRISTMAS can't I?) and see there family. It's almost heartbreaking....

[K C Muffin]

I'm slow to catch on this morning, so bear with me. They were actually discussing building a wall across the northern border? How stupid would that be? Do you see Canadians trying to escape into the US in the middle of the night? Maybe I'm just lost......need to shower and wake up. Either that or go back to bed..........