[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Mexico seeks international support against deadly US border wall

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      Mexico seeks international support against deadly US border wall 
      12/28/2005 11:53 
      US lawmakers proposed to build some 700 miles of barriers to stop illegal 
immigration from the South.

      Sixteen years after the fall of the Berlin wall, another barrier of 
bricks is being fuelled to separate two nations and stop immigration. A 
proposal by U.S. lawmakers to build some 1,130 kilometers of barriers along 
their nation's southern border as part of efforts to stop illegal immigration 
has irritated Mexicans, who are seeking international support to block 
Washington's plans.

      The Mexican Congress is asking legislatures in Spain, Portugal and Latin 
American countries to join a coalition against the US proposal.  The request, 
backed by the Mexican President Vicente Fox, is contained in a letter drafted 
by the speaker of the Mexican lower house, Heliodoro Diaz.

      "I hereby ask you, in an act of unity among Ibero-American Congresses, 
that you share our concern about and condemnation of (the U.S. wall), and that 
you express the deepest solidarity with the Mexican Congress, in order to 
impede the construction of a wall on the border of the United States of America 
with Mexico, and the approval of the law promoting it," says the missive.

      On Dec. 16, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that 
envisions building 700 miles of fences along the border with Mexico, makes 
illegal immigration a crime - it is currently a civil offense - and calls for 
prosecuting U.S. citizens who aid undocumented migrants.

      Mexican authorities have expressed their concerns on the proposals, as if 
it is finally approved by the Senate, it could become a hot spot in what 
already is a key issue for the relations between both North American nations. 

      In his letter, Diaz expresses his respect for the legislative function of 
the United States Congress, but points out that the phenomenon of migration, 
for its social and economic effects, should be looked at in a comprehensive way 
within a bilateral framework.

      "The aforesaid law, should it be approved, will result in highly negative 
effects for our countries, such as criminalizing migration, violating the human 
rights of migrants to that nation, exacerbating racism against minorities, and 
repudiating various agreements achieved through existing free-trade treaties," 
the document says.

      Mexican Foreign Minister, Luis Ernesto Derbez, met Monday with the US 
Secretary of Commerce, Roberto Zoellick, to complain about the initiative. 
Derbez said the bill was "racist." President Fox had said last week that the 
new wall was "a shame" and a "bad signal of the United States to Latin America."

      According to Human Rights groups, about 500 Latin American immigrants die 
annually in the US-Mexican border, many of them killed by US guards. Those 
immigrants looking for better conditions of life are only from Mexico but from 
close U.S. allies such as El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and other Central 
American nations.

      If finally built, the wall will be the longest in world's history, not 
including the Chinese one in the list.

      Photo: A section of the wall that already separates both countries   
     


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