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To: longnshort who wrote (584923)	9/24/2010 11:24:35 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1578294

Mexico Building Fence to Keep Guatamalans Out By Bob Ellis on September 22nd, 2010 dakotavoice.com David Gibson at the Examiner says the Inter-Press Service (IPS) has confirmed the Mexican government is building a wall along the Mexico Guatemala border. The official reason is to stop contraband from coming into Mexico, but as Diaz admitted: “It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants.” According to Mexico’s National Commission on Human Rights, 500,000 people from Central America cross into Mexico illegally every year. Just as Mexican authorities have opposed the construction of a fence by the U.S., along our border with their country, Mexico is now receiving a great deal of criticism from the Guatemalan government. The executive coordinator of the National Bureau for Migration in Guatemala, Marila de Prince, told a local newspaper: “It is not a correct measure being taken by the Mexican government.” Erick Maldonado, executive secretary of Guatemala’s National Council on Migrants said: “We are watching the Mexican government’s initiative with concern because the migrants are in a situation of highest vulnerability, as demonstrated by the massacre in Tamaulipas, where five Guatemalans died.” Wait a minute. I thought that was evil when America did it. Isn’t that what Mexico has been bellyaching about for years? But then, they have strict border and immigration laws, too. Of course, that doesn’t stop them from giving us a hard time for insisting on the sovereignty of our own borders and enforcing our own immigration laws. Apparently if yours is the country from which the dregs of society are running, the country which borders your own is supposed to fall supine and take it. The only determining factor seems to be that conditions must be theoretically better in the country to which people are running. That makes an awfully good domestic policy for maintaining the infrastructure of corruption by creating a “relief valve” for disaffected people to run away rather than actually do something about the pathetic condition of their own country. I’m sure we can expect our “mainstream” media to provide wall-to-wall coverage of this hypocrisy any minute now…any minute now…any minute now…