MEXICO DRAFTS RESOLUTION CRITICIZING BORDER FENCE AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCI

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created Tue Oct 24, 06
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government said Monday that it is drafting a resolution for the United Nations Human Rights Council criticizing U.S. plans to build hundreds of miles of fencing on its southern border.
Mexican Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba, who is president of the 47-member council, said the resolution will denounce the fence for violating human rights and driving undocumented migrants to cross the border in more remote and dangerous areas.
The resolution will be presented to the council next week, he said.
The United States is an observer but not a member of the council, which this year replaced the widely discredited U.N. Human Rights Commission.
At the council's first sessions this year, members failed to reach agreement on the most hotly debated issues such as on human rights violations in Sudan.
Last month, the U.S. Senate approved the bill to build 700 miles (1,100 kilometers) of border fencing and President Bush has said he will sign it into law - despite pleas from the Mexican government for a veto.
Mexican President Vicente Fox has called the plans "shameful" and compared it to the Berlin Wall.
There are an estimated 11 million Mexicans living in the United States, about half whom don't have the proper documentation.

AP

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Do you think building a fence to keep out illegal immigrants after all other attempts have failed constitutes a violation of human rights?

And as a follow up question, is this something the UN should be addressing in light of the situation in Iran, north korea, sudan, etc?

Yes this is a violation of human rights, yes the UN should address this issue now
Yes this is a violation of human rights, but they should wait to address it until later
No it is not a violation of human rights and they should never address it

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COMMENTS:
A country without Borders is no country at all.

by ploink on Tue Oct 24, 06 10:34pm [+]

Violation of human rights? If Mexico wants to crack down on human rights violations, they need to take a look at their own country and ask themselves why their own citizens are risking their lives to come here for work.

by Grumpy_Person on Tue Oct 24, 06 10:36pm [+]

Voted : No it is not a violation of human rights and they should never address it
No and no. Its our side of the border and none of their business. what really pisses me off is that if I tried to go live in Mexico they'd deport me right back. Bunch of hypocrits. Meanwhile its a known fact that Mexico has draconian immigration policies towards its neighbors to south The Mexican government is making an ass out of itself

by TomSmith on Wed Oct 25, 06 4:36am [+]

Ploink, Grumpy, and Tom said it all. I don't know how anyone can disagree with their points.

by Bostonian on Wed Oct 25, 06 6:05am [+]

Voted : No it is not a violation of human rights and they should never address it
Fuck Vicente Fox and fuck his mother for having him. mad

by _Beelzebubba on Wed Oct 25, 06 9:33am [+]

"A country without Borders is no country at all."

parroting rush limbaugh doesn't require brain at all.

Hey, are you a repubelican?

by LCD on Wed Oct 25, 06 10:13am [+]

Gee, whatever happened to entering a country legally.

by mindy on Wed Oct 25, 06 12:44pm [+]

Besides I've heard Mexicans aren't to keen on people who enter their own country illegally. I think they're a bit hypocritical.

by mindy on Wed Oct 25, 06 12:46pm [+]

LCD: is that quote untrue? Does a country exist if it has no borders?

If rush says the earth revolves around the sun does that disprove modern astronomy?

by herzog on Wed Oct 25, 06 4:43pm [+]

Herzog asks a question.

LCD mentions republicans.

Herzog points out the flaw in LCDs logic.

Hey, is this a typical bestandworst argument?

by Narcissus on Wed Oct 25, 06 9:08pm [+]

The whole border question is just the wizard hiding behind the curtain, a distraction from the problems the US really face.

Mexicans have been pouring over the borders for 100 years, why is it such a problem now? Can anyone say scapegoat?

by Steelhamster on Tue Nov 07, 06 11:12am [+]