Mugger to mugging victim: It's YOUR fault.
Wasting no time in pointing up the tensions between Washington and Mexico City, Mr. Calderón also urged Mr. Bush to move more aggressively to create a temporary-worker program. Such a program would decriminalize the millions of Mexicans and others who enter the United States illegally to fill low-paying jobs.
Mr. Calderón said his countrymen “fully respect the right that the government and the people of the United States of America have to decide, within its territory, what will be best for their concerns and security.”
But he said the resources devoted to the security fence would better be used on development: “We do consider in a respectful way that we may more truly stop the migration by building a kilometer of highway in Michoac or Zacatecas than 10 kilometers of walls” on the border.
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Calderon, on a trip to Canada, said that just as we now view the building of the Berlin Wall as wrong, we'll someday view building a fence on the US/Mexican border similarly.
Um. Except. The Berlin Wall was built to IMPRISON people. This wall is designed to KEEP PEOPLE OUT. Big difference.
I'm infuriated by how sclerotic and immune to the popular will is our government. If you took a fairly-worded poll, you'd find that a large majority of Americans, left & right, want a secure, enforced border and the expulsion of most or all illegal aliens. Yet our government refuses to act, because our government, rather than serve the people, now serve whoever shouts loudest & whoever stuffs the most money in their pockets.