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May 21, 2006
With Friends Like These...
This is not encouraging. From the Sunday's Houston Chronicle:
U.S. envoy to Mexico blasts fence planAUSTIN - U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza described building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border as un-American in a speech to the University of Texas at Austin graduating class Saturday night.
"Simply building walls does not speak America to me," said Garza, a former Texas railroad commissioner and a close friend to President Bush. "I know we can be both a welcoming society and a secure and lawful one." [...]
"America didn't get where we are today off the sweat of just one race, one religion or one culture," Garza said.
"And if you ever need a reminder of all that we have, simply ask any of the hardworking immigrants here why they endured days in a scorching desert or why they crossed an ocean in a crowded boat to get to the United States," Garza said.
Emphases mine. This close friend of the president should realize that a miserably crowded boat crossing was merely the last of many ordeals endured by those immigrants--ordeals endured precisely because they wanted to make sure they were legal immigrants.
This fact the United States needs to build a barrier doesn't reflect badly upon us. It reflects badly upon Mexico.
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