The Three Amigos’ summit in New Orleans
President Bush will be in New Orleans today for his final summit with Mexican president Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The main focus is NAFTA. But free trade isn’t the only thing on Calderon’s mind. He’ll be meeting in the US with shamnesty peddlers and immigration enforcement saboteurs in Dallas, as they prepare for another round of massive May Day illegal alien rallies to protest workplace enforcement actions, enforcement of deportation orders against hundreds of thousands of fugitive absconders, and enforcement of every other immigration rule and requirement. This is his top agenda:
In his first trip to Texas as president, Mexico’s Felipe Calderon will make a brief stop in Dallas on Tuesday to talk about an issue that has become more and more contentious in recent months — immigration.
Calderon will appear at a conference of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, a 125-member advisory council formed by the Mexican government in 2003 to strengthen ties between Mexico and its sons and daughters working in other countries.
It will be only the second time that the group, which meets twice a year, will meet in the U.S. The first was in Atlanta in 2004.
“The Mexican government believes that protection assistance programs for Mexicans in the United States should be strengthened continuously, and Texas, as the second-largest state with Mexicans, represents the ideal geographic place for these programs,” said a spokeswoman for Calderon. She added that the president believes it’s important “to personally connect with Mexicans who live and work in Texas.”
Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert invited Calderon to Dallas during a January trade mission to Monterrey, Mexico. Leppert called Dallas a “culturally diverse city with a strong Hispanic presence.”
Other cities in the region, including Farmers Branch and Irving, have generated controversy by taking strong stands and implementing policies against illegal immigration.
For his part, Calderon has criticized the “growing harassment” of Mexicans in the United States.
You’ll recall that while GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo and California GOP state legislator Tom McClintock challenged Calderon’s scathing criticism in February, President Bush had nothing to say. In fact, as Calderon persists in badmouthing the U.S., Bush will be moving forward with the $1.4 billion Merida Initiative at the summit today, which will help bolster Mexico’s southern border fence and fund their surveillance tools.
How’s our own fence doing? Well, you may recall that on April Fools’ Day, DHS trumpeted its decision to exercise its waiver authority to expedite construction of the fence along the southern border. Many folks took it as a hopeful sign that the administration was getting serious about homeland security. I did not join the cheering. The dog-and-pony charade is too familiar.
Now, we learn–as I expected–that those environmental waivers were waivers in name only for the still-unbuilt fence in name only:
Earlier this month, however, the Bush administration waived more than 30 environmental and land-management laws to meet its deadline for building at least 360 miles of the border fence. Two advocacy groups, the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife, have gone to court to challenge the constitutionality of the authority that Congress gave the administration to set aside federally required environmental reviews.
Amy Kudwa, spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said that despite the waivers, the agency has prepared draft environmental assessments or impact statements for much of the fence — which will be composed of metal, concrete or wire along different stretches — and that officials will continue to explore ways to mitigate its effect on vulnerable wildlife.
“Just because we’re using this waiver authority doesn’t mean we’ve not been mindful of our obligation to be stewards of the environment,” she said in an interview. “For a number of miles, we’ve determined that it would have only insignificant impact.”
Kudwa could not specify which areas would feel the greatest effects from the barrier, but she said Homeland Security is negotiating to give the Fish and Wildlife Service $800,000 to mitigate the wall’s impact on the Sonoran pronghorn and the long-nose bat in the Cabeza Prieta refuge, even though DHS has waived its obligation to comply with Endangered Species Act requirements there.
Meantime, a bunch of scientists who put ocelots above national security are threatening to throw themselves in front of bulldozers:
“This wall is so asinine, and so wrong, I am one of a dozen scientists ready to lay our bodies down in front of tractors,” Healy Hamilton, who directs the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information at the California Academy of Sciences, told colleagues at a recent scientific retreat here. “This is one thing we might be able to stop.”
“Make it 13!” said Allison Jones, a conservation biologist at the Wild Utah Project, an advocacy group.
Hamilton and Jones have yet to throw themselves before bulldozers, but their call to arms reflects the researchers’ growing fears that the wall will imperil species that, in Hamilton’s words, “walk, fly or crawl across that border.”
DHS’s fence construction authority sunsets 12/31/08.
The open-borders lobby knows it can do what it has always taught its law-evaders to do:
Run out the clock.
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I did read the article.
For all you ‘conspiracy’ theorists like me it is no longer the NAU or SPP but NASRA.
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2008/apr08/08-04-16.html
I’m not a fan of Phyllis’ but this was the best link I could find. Also check out the alipac.us discussion area for several more articles.
We are unfortunately losing to the greed of the elites and the Globalists.
The food supply was just mentioned on Glenn Beck this evening…..interesting.
We may need to stock up on cooking oil, wheat, flour, cornmeal,etc.
This is the result of taking corn out of the food chain for ethenol. 100% predictable. It has nothing to do with illegal immagration.
All food prices will go thru the roof over the next few years: wheat, soy, poultry/eggs, pork, beef,and all foods.
Juan Hernandez describes the 20 million plus illegals in this country as “new pioneers”. Calderon is of the same mindset, and wants to insure that his pioneering efforts continue to grow and flourish.
Perhaps it is time to wake up and recognize that this is now a well orchestrated plan on the part of Mexico to colonize parts of the US. The mantra of “racial” superiority, the total rejection of assimilation, the demand for rights of citizenship with none of the corresponding duties and responsibilities, the open defiance of law and order, the slow bleeding of our infrastructure, and the continued mass influx of similairly minded invaders are strong evidence that we are well beyond the possibility of people coming here illegally merely for better paying jobs.
Illegals now represent close to 10% of the entire population of the US, and Mexican illegals now represent over one third of all Mexican citizens. If you illegally relocate a third of your population in another country, chances are that your intentions are geared toward extending your sovereign borders into that country.
I remain convinced that the Three Banditos meeting in New orleans are selling this country out from underneath us. No matter who gets into office they will be controlled by corporations who want the slave labor to continue. Americans remain mostly in a coma as far as “getting the picture”.
I don’t think they will even rally to fight it with a civil war which I hear texans and others deeply buried in illegal morass have hinted at often. I am angry and people think I am overeacting….When will people realize we are being invaded and we are funding our own demise ???? Bush should be Impeached for TREASON.
The Dems were right, Bush is stupid.
according to immigrationcounters.com
Cost of Social Services for Illegal Immigrants Since 1996
over $397 BILLION dollars
the politicians, Clinton, Bush, Kennedy, McCain, etc. all get personally richer while the American people get taxed to death, and lose their country to boot.
DISGRACEFUL !
So what to do? What action do we take?
Americans had their chance in Tom Tancredo. By rejecting Tom, Americans signed their own disaster. Still, to answer your question, Fish starts to rot in the head first. Start with impeaching the traitor in the White House, you elected twice!
See how foolish Americans are?
…. and Americans rejected Tom Tancredo, who would have brought an end to the ‘illegal immigration’ disaster. yet, Americans rejected him. Now, Americans deserve what is coming..
did you see the priest on the o’reilly show?
he said he wants EVERYONE to be able to come here. he says it is OUR responsibility to take care of the world. he says it is OUR policies that keep them down.
do the catholic church defenders on this board still want to defend the pope’s stance on illegals, or wonder why people are angry with the church.