Border Fence
So let me understand this. The US is considering building a fence, on US soil, to protect the US border, paid for by US money, as a clear exercise in preserving the sovereignty of the nation.
And Mexico wants to take legal action with the UN?
Mexico’s foreign secretary said Monday the country may take a dispute over U.S. plans to build a fence on the Mexican border to the United Nations.
Luis Ernesto Derbez told reporters in Paris, his first stop on a European tour, that a legal investigation was under way to determine whether Mexico has a case.
The Mexican government last week sent a diplomatic note to Washington criticizing the plan for 700 miles of new fencing along the border. President-elect Felipe Calderon also denounced the plan, but said it was a bilateral issue that should not be put before the international community.
Preserving our border should be subject to international debate?!
Is the insanity here not evident? Have things changed so much that exercising the right to preserve our border is now a controversy? I can’t wrap my head around this concept.
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1. It does seem strange the this would be considered an international debate. I doubt that it will go anywhere.
2. It is a pity our government has fallen to that level….how soon we forget history. This sounds too much like the Berlin wall.
I wouldn’t compare it to the Berlin Wall. The Wall was used to keep a country’s population in. The border fence is to keep people who aren’t citizens out. These are distinct differences, particularly when those who wish to enter can do so if they go through proper legal proceedings. I don’t think that is too much to ask. As a matter of fact, I am in favor of more legal immigration. I laid it all out here.
For the Berlin Wall analogy to hold true, West Berlin would have built the wall to keep the East Berliners out, and the East Berlin government would be outraged that their people weren’t permitted to flee from their nation…
John F. Kerry: “No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America.
But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you’re doing what you’re doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons.”
Gotta love the Global Test. Did Mexico have to pass a test to militarize its southern border?
Well, geez, Todd… get with the program. What’s so difficult to understand? Every nation across this great planet is expected to and has every right to protect its people, establish its boundaries, and enforce regulations concerning said people and boundaries–except for the United States. How dare we.
Get with the program, man.