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Abolishing Our Southern Border. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
With each new expansion of federal authority in the name of homeland security, Americans are reminded that "everything changed" on September 11th. Unfortunately, this is not the case with the Bush administration's commitment to abolish our southern border with Mexico.
"The Bush administration is pushing Congress to act on the president's plan for granting amnesty to millions of Mexican workers living and working illegally in the United States," reported the February 15th Washington Times. "Administration officials insist that, although the subject faded from the minds of many after the September 11 attacks, it has remained a priority for Mr. Bush." Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) denounces the amnesty plan as "a kick in the teeth" to law-abiding people who seek to immigrate legally. A spokesman for Tancredo told the Times that the White House "is pressuring representatives" to act on amnesty legislation.
The Bush budget contains another gift to illegal aliens: federal funding to build water and sewage systems in "colonias" -- wretched shantytowns erected on the U.S. side of the border. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which would disburse the funds, notes that the ...
- Mexico struggles to secure its southern border.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) March 4, 2004 700+ words
...Dellios CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico _ Within hours of crossing Mexico's untamed southern border, Rigoberto Rivas suffered...illegally through its southern border on the way to the United States. Concerns about Mexico's neglect of the jungle...
- Mexico struggles to secure its southern border.(Chicago Tribune)
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Dellios, Hugh March 4, 2004 700+ words
...Dellios CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico _ Within hours of crossing Mexico's untamed southern border, Rigoberto Rivas suffered...illegally through its southern border on the way to the United States. Concerns about Mexico's neglect of the jungle...
- Our "Friend" to the south: even as it seals off its own southern border, the...
- Magazine article from: The New American Grigg, William Norman December 16, 2002 700+ words
...Americans crossing Mexico's southern border." The Mexican police...United States. But from Mexico's perspective, they...entitled to seal their southern border, while America supposedly...the illegal aliens Mexico cares to sent northward...
- Mexico tightens own southern border.(World)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor August 24, 2001 700+ words
...we can transform Mexico into the vast guardian of the southern border," says the Rev...Americans died crossing Mexico last year, but...Ironically, the southern border itself is the easiest...Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, is a good vantage...
- Emery Worldwide Launches U.S.-Mexico Border Customs Brokerage Service...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 27, 2001 700+ words
...in September a southern border expansion of its...along the U.S.-Mexico border to key cities...along the U.S.-Mexico border. Emery...promoted to manager, Southern Border Network for the...expansion on the southern border," Hammond said...along the U.S.-Mexico ...
- Troubled crossing: Mexico to tighten 750 miles of southern border.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Brooks, Karen August 27, 2001 700+ words
...immigrants who cross into Mexico don't intend to stay...150,000 deportees in Mexico last year were heading...and had crossed at the southern border. At the same time...the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, because Mexicans...issues affecting the southern border are analagous to ...
- Troubled crossing: Mexico to tighten 750 miles of southern border.
- News wire article from: Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) August 19, 2001 700+ words
...immigrants who cross into Mexico don't intend to stay...150,000 deportees in Mexico last year were heading...and had crossed at the southern border. At the same time...the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, because Mexicans...issues affecting the southern border are analagous to ...
- Mexico promises better treatment for migrants crossing its southern border.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 30, 2005 700+ words
...Byline: ARIEL DAVID Mexico has drawn up a new...Americans _ on its southern border, the Interior Department...States for employing. Mexico has condemned a U...extending border walls. Mexico's southern border with Guatemala and...
- Southern border of Mexico serves as path for illegal immigrants.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) July 9, 2003 700+ words
...Ricardo Chavira CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico _ The man charged with keeping...tropical swath of southern Mexico watched bemusedly as dozens...a train yard in Tapachula, Mexico, with other Central Americans...begin the journey from the southern border each year _ won't reach American...
- Mexico: Southern border home to arms trade.(UPI Top Stories)
- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack July 21, 2004 700+ words
MEXICO CITY, July 21 (UPI) -- Mexico's southern border with Guatemala is highly vulnerable to arms trafficking...Police, Jose Solis Cortes, said that the border between Mexico and Guatemala is a "fragile" zone and susceptible to...
Source: HighBeam Research, Abolishing Our Southern Border. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)