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Virtual Fence on Hold, Physical Fence 400 Million Over Budget

10:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration · Comments Off

10 Sep 2008

Seems that the government is struggling to get that damn border wall up and in place. Reuters is reporting that for right now, the virtual wall that was planned for the U.S./Mexican border is on hold and the physical wall they are building will need $400 million dollars to complete. But at least we have our priorities in order:

The highest priority is to put out a system of physical fences and barriers that will keep people and vehicles from illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Jayson Ahern, U.S. Customs and Border Protection deputy commissioner, told the Journal.

My own priorities are not quite so neatly in order, and I tend to feel a bit outraged that my taxes are going towards a virtual mess that is destroying the environment, harming human beings, and not to mention accomplishing next to nothing–I wonder when we can all agree to take legitimate steps towards solving the broken immigration system?

via/Reuters

Homeland Securty Has Secret Invisible Blogger Corp

1:20 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Blogs| Immigration| Politics · Comments Off

4 Apr 2008

Bloggers like to blog. We like to blog about meetings with important government people about issues our readers care about (or not). So can someone tell me who the hell were the bloggers at the a roundtable discussion that Sec. Chertoff had where he discussed why his department “cannot afford to get enmeshed in the kinds of litigation that have traditionally caused projects [in this case the border fence] to take decades to complete…” you know because of troublesome environmental laws?

Marisa at Latina Lista points out some wavig red flags:

Reading the transcript, which was released as a press release, and is only a partial transcript at that, not one blogger is identified.

The strangeness of this situation immediately waves red flags.

Before the government releases a bogus statement about protecting privacy, there exists something in the blogosphere that is an universal truth — no blogger wants to be anonymous, especially if they were lucky enough to score an interview with a high-profile individual like Chertoff.

Real bloggers would make that a headline post and it would have surely been “talked” about in the blogosphere. Strange that I ran across the item by accident doing a news seach on Chertoff.

Given the track record of this administration that sees nothing wrong in staging press conferences, I tend to believe that this may also have been the case – though I don’t have any proof but a lot of circumstantial evidence.

Ay the government wouldn’t lie like that and stage an event right?

Via / Latina Lista

Border Fence is Good for the Environment

7:56 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Politics · 3 Comments

2 Oct 2007

Did you just spit up your coffee reading that headline? That was the reaction this morning at my local Colombian/Mexican bakery when Univision’s morning show, Despierta America reported that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that the proposed fence on the Mexico U.S. border was good for the environment. The news story was met with loud sighs and head shakes by Latinos on my morning cafecito line. I haven’t been able to find the story anywhere else but what I was able to find is that Chertoff is doing some serious damage control because communities on the U.S. side of the border are concerned about the environmental impact the fence will have.

Europe is against the border fence

6:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| World · 3 Comments

3 May 2007

Barack Obama might be for building a fence on the border between Mexico and the United States to quell the flow of immigrants into this country, but the head of Foreign Policy for the European Union, Javier Solana, says “no”:

“A wall that separates one country from another is not something that I like or that the European Union members like,” Solana said at a Tuesday news conference in Mexico City.

“We don’t think walls are reasonable instruments to stop people from crossing into a country.”

The EU believes immigrants should be treated “like people, not like criminals,” he said.

Europe has an “immigration problem” as well. In fact, Spain, from where Solana hails, is the European country which bears the weight of much of the immigrants entering Western Europe. In 2006, Spain took in over 600,000 immigrants — 44% of the total number for the entire European Union (!) — and in spite of that fact, the EU’s stance is one of tolerance. Interesting.

Via / CNN

Latinos angered at Obama’s support of fence

3:34 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| Politics · 4 Comments

24 Nov 2006

While many liberals anxiously await the announcement that Illinois senator Barack Obama will make a bid for the presidency in 2008, some Latinos are up in arms over Obama’s support of the proposed fence on the U.S. Mexico border:

Hispanic leaders say he has betrayed the trust of the people who always gave him their votes.

“He’s lost his vision; he’s lost his feet on the ground,” said Hispanic leader Carmen Velasquez.

Obama is being criticized after siding with Republicans in the Senate to approve a 700-mile wall across the Mexican border. The vote happened almost two months ago.

Obama defended his position, saying “I am confident that, if you look at my track record, there hasn’t been a stronger friend to the Latino community than me.” Chicago’s CBS2 reports that Obama met with Latino leaders in Illinois and assured them that the vote was “part of a larger strategy”.

Via / CBS2 Chicago and Hispanic Tips

Mexican President-Elect: Border wall a big mistake

7:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Politics| mexico · 1 Comment

26 Oct 2006

Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderón today called the extension of the border wall proposed by the U.S. government “a serious mistake”.

The comments were made in a press conference during a visit with the Canadian Prime Minister in which, according to Mexican daily El Universal he compared the building of the border wall with that of the Berlin Wall.

Calderón also called the decision on the part of the U.S. to continue with the project “deplorable” and claimed that “it won’t resolve anything”.

Meanwhile, Mexican president Vicente Fox is calling the wall “useless and shameful”, and went on to say:

“I think this is shameful for the U.S. and proof of its inability to see the immigration issue as one of mutual responsibility.”

Via / El Universal

The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Doesn’t Like Fences

10:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| business · Comments Off

26 Oct 2006

The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, an advocacy organization representing two million Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S. issued a statement today regarding the planned signing by President Bush of the U.S. Mexico Border Bill that will put in place a 700-mile long fence along the southern border.

“On behalf of our USHCC Board of Directors, we are extremely disappointed by the President’s decision to sign the U.S.-Mexico Border Bill into law and do it during a nationally-televised White House ceremony. Rather than cheering and applauding the President and our Congressional leaders for a law that promotes misguided enforcement- only legislation that builds fences between allies, hurts small businesses and pushes 12 million people further into the shadows, we should be demanding that our national leadership seek comprehensive solutions to this complex issue. We further call on the President and those Congressional leaders that originally promised to seek true comprehensive reform to live up to their commitments.” said David C. Lizárraga, USHCC, Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Via / Hispanic PR Wire

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