If a fence wouldn't work REAL WELL I don't think they would be so dead set against it
One thing is for sure, they won't be able to claim their military is just "lost" anymore
Mexican leftist attacks US border fence planJan 27, 2006
Lizbeth Diaz
REUTERS
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1547191TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's leftist presidential front-runner on Thursday attacked Washington's plans to build a high-security border fence that aims to crack down on illegal immigration.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a crowd of about 7,000 in the gritty border city of Tijuana that fences and additional border police would only create more conflict.
"It must be made clear to our neighbors that nothing will be resolved by building fences, nor with more border patrol agents, nor with more severe laws or with firm hand threats," Lopez Obrador told supporters in the town center.
"All these measures will only provoke more human rights violations and more conflicts in bilateral relations between the two governments," the former Indian rights activist said in the city that already has a border fence.
The plan to extend fences to other regions, approved by the U.S. House of Representatives last month, has angered many Mexicans. The government of President Vicente Fox is lobbying U.S. Senate leaders to block it.
Fox's government has pushed hard for U.S. immigration reform in favor of millions of Mexicans living and working illegally in the United States.
U.S. President George W. Bush is backing a guest worker program to match immigrants with jobs for a set time period.
The plan faces stiff opposition inside the Republican Party and many of its lawmakers supported the fence plan as a way of tightening security along the long, porous border.
Lopez Obrador, of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, said Fox's inability to create jobs had forced about 2 million Mexicans to leave Mexico for the United States to seek work in the five years of his government.
"The failure of economic policy is behind the failure of immigration policy for President Fox," the former mayor of Mexico City said.
Lopez Obrador said if he won the July 2 presidential vote he would propose immigration reform with the United States that included the generation of jobs in Mexico.