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Mine's quite a bit higher after reading this.

Mexico Promises to Block Border Wall Plan

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government, angered by a U.S. proposal to extend a wall along the border to keep out migrants, pledged Tuesday to block the plan and organize an international campaign against it.

Facing a growing tide of anti-immigrant sentiment north of the border, the Mexican government has taken out ads urging Mexican workers to denounce rights violations in the United States. It also is hiring an American public relations firm to improve its image and counter growing U.S. concerns about immigration.

Mexican President Vicente Fox' denounced the U.S. measures, passed by the House of Representatives on Friday, as "shameful" and his foreign secretary, Luis Ernesto Derbez, echoed his complaints on Tuesday.

"Mexico is not going to bear, it is not going to permit, and it will not allow a stupid thing like this wall," Derbez said.

"What has to be done is to raise a storm of criticism, as is already happening, against this," he said, promising to turn the international community against the plan.

Guess what Senor Derbez? The wall is coming. It's a matter of when not if.

Would you like to know why? Because your country is an enemy of the United States. And when I hear you talking like this I smile, because you won't be smiling when the wall goes, the illegals come home, and La Revolucion comes to beautiful Mexico.

Many Mexicans, especially those who have spent time working in the U.S., feel the proposal is a slap in the face to those who work hard and contribute to the U.S. economy.

Fernando Robledo, 42, of the western state of Zacatecas, says the proposals could stem migration and disrupt families by breaking cross-border ties.

"When people heard this, it worried everybody, because this will affect everybody in some way, and their families," Robledo said. "They were incredulous. How could they do this, propose something like this?"

Robledo, whose son and mother are U.S. citizens, predicted the measure "would unleash conflict within the United States" as small businesses fail for lack of workers.

He said many Mexicans felt betrayed by the anti-immigrant sentiment.

Funny, Senor Robledo, I was just thinking how betrayed I feel by my elected representatives. But have no fear amigo, when the next bomb is detonated I bet cash money you will find yourself...Adios!

"We learned to believe in the United States. We have a binational life," he said of Zacatecas, a state that has been sending migrants north for more than a century. "It isn't just a feeling of rejection. It's against what we see as part of our life, our culture, our territory."

This part just chills my blood. No offense hombre, but no, it's not your territory, unless your willing to get off ass and finally start the war that's been brewing on that Southern border for about thirty years. If you can take the land back, fine, but it seems like your opening an enormous can of whoop-ass and I know just the guys to remind you why you don't mess with the big dog. As to your culture, if your talking about expressing your culture as a citizen of this great land, okie-dokie, if your talking about expressing your culture as an illegal alien on my soil?

See ya, wouldn't want to be you when the hammer falls.

As always, I have a shiny penny for anyone who can locate the word "illegal" in this piece of..."journalism".

Please take the time to read this article, the unmitigated arrogance of the Mexican government is breathtaking. As you listen to them blather on about what the US must do to make these robber barons happy, remember this, this is the cruel voice of the Spanish Don demanding his slaves snap to. The voice of the overlord demanding with a whip in his hand. The very reason Mexico can't get it's act together.

Congress and the Senate are not quite there yet, they think they can just make a noise and the American people will just go back to sleep. I say their wrong.

What say you?


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