Mexicans doubt National Guard will be solution

For some ordinary citizens, "no wall will keep us from crossing"
The Associated Press

Photo by John Miller / AP

Updated: 8:08 p.m. ET May 15, 2006

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Looking for someone to help him cross into the United States, Jorge Gutierrez said Monday it will take a lot more than U.S. National Guard troops to keep him and other migrants out.

Most Mexicans believe the plan, to be announced Monday night by President Bush, will do little to stop the flow north. President Vicente Fox called Bush this weekend to say he didn'’t believe sending soldiers to the border was the answer.

The countries have rarely seen eye-to-eye since Bush and Fox agreed to work toward immigration reform five years ago at a meeting at Fox’s ranch in Mexico. Fox wants the Bush administration to give amnesty to millions of migrants living in the U.S. and allow more to seek jobs legally from outside the country.

Here's as question for you. Who cares what Fox and Mexico think? Until such time as they treat their immigrants, legal and illegal, in the same manner that they what Mexicans in the US treated, they need to keep quiet and maybe nobody will notice their glaring hypocrisy! -mm