News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, May 22, 2006

Fox's U.S. trip slated at 'terrible time' in debate on immigration

By S. Lynne Walker
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
May 21, 2006

MEXICO CITY – In politics, timing is everything – and pundits say the timing of President Vicente Fox's visit next week to California and the West couldn't be worse.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is deciding whether the California National Guard will participate in President Bush's plan to send 6,000 troops to the border. The Utah Minutemen are planning a protest in Salt Lake City, where Fox will meet with several hundred Mexicans during the first stop of a four-day trip that also takes him to Washington state.

And as Fox is speaking to a joint session of the California Legislature on Thursday, the U.S. Senate might be preparing to vote on an immigration bill that declares English the national language of the United States and calls for the construction of double-and triple-layered fencing along 370 miles of the border.

The stated purpose of Fox's visit to Sacramento on Thursday and to Los Angeles on Friday is to strengthen economic and political ties between California and Mexico.

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