So says out-going Mexican Foreign Minister, Luis Ernesto Derbez, in an interview with French center-right daily Le Figaro (translation here). It appears that Mexico is unhappy with Congress' decision, last Wednesday, to authorize construction of a 700 mile long fence along the southern frontier with Mexico.

Alas, it is universally acknowledged that our government has no such intention. So what to make of all the fuss south of the border? Le Figaro reports:

As a protest against the manipulation of this law, Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon is reluctant to visit the United States before his inauguration. Calderon has already visited nine Latin American countries as well as scheduled a forthcoming trip to Canada.

Apparently, the very idea that elected American representatives might for once bow to public opinion on the question of immigration -- symbolically and in complete bad faith, I hasten to add -- is enough to generate a mini-crisis in Mexican-American diplomatic relations.

You shouldn't take it so hard, Felipe. George Bush has let us down, too.