President Bush signed into law a bill mandating a fence be constructed on the US Mexico border.
"This bill will help protect the American people. This bill will make our borders more secure," Mr. Bush said at a morning ceremony with top Republicans in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. "It is an important step toward immigration reform."
Mexican president-elect Felipe Calderon was heard to say
"The wall will not solve any problem.
"Humanity made a huge mistake by building the Berlin Wall and I believe that today the United States is committing a grave error in building the wall on our border. It is much more useful to solve common problems and foster prosperity in both countries."
Gee, if I remember correctly, the Berlin Wall was built to keep people in, not out. The deplorable conditions of Communist East Germany caused people to want to flee.
Is Calderon trying to equate Mexico to Communist East Germany?
But it turns out, Mexicans don't like illegal immigrants from south of their border either.
A poll (link in Spanish) published by the news paper El Universal shows that 50% of interviewed Mexicans are in favor of redoubling the police security in the border with 51% of the Mexicans wanting immigration with Central American citizens to the country to diminish, according to a survey published Monday by the newspaper El Universal. In the USA, 39% think the same in regards to total immigration....
...34% considers that the Central American immigrants take jobs from Mexicans. On the other hand, 46% think that they obtain jobs that the Mexicans do not want. 38% consider that it is more probable that the Central American immigrants get involved in criminal activities than the Mexicans....
According to a poll by Bumeran, in a survery of 3,180 companies, 41% didn’t want to hire foreign workers. A respondent to the survey said he believed that the reasons for this are protectionism, unjustified nationalism, and not being sure of foreign workers talent.
Huh.
