The Israelization of the US --the latest:
At Mexican Border, Tunnels, Vile River, Rusty Fence
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: March 23, 2005
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Meanwhile, the alarms have been sounding in Washington about the dangers post-9/11 of a porous, 2,000-mile-long border. James Loy, the deputy secretary for Homeland Security, said last month that intelligence reports showed that terrorists from Al Qaeda were likely to try to enter the country from Mexico, across whose border at least 300,000 people flow every year virtually untraced and with impunity.
Porter J. Goss, the director of central intelligence, told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that the United States was vulnerable to terrorists infiltrating through its backyard.
But for President Fox, a tighter border that keeps Mexicans from desperately needed jobs is not necessarily in his interest. Last week, in a sharp divergence from Washington, he publicly decried a measure passed in the House of Representatives that would mandate completion of a long-stalled security wall between Tijuana and San Diego.
Far from being completed, he said, the wall should be knocked down. "No country that is proud of itself should construct walls," he said.
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