Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, waived several environmental laws to resume building the Mexico border fence; meanwhile President Bush announced he will ask Congress to approve a $500 million package to help Mexico fight drug cartels, the largest international anti-drug effort by the United States in nearly a decade.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced that the completion of a $20 million “virtual fence” pilot project along the Mexican border near Tucson would be delayed because its cameras and radar were unable to distinguish people and vehicles from bushes and cows.
[not a mexican]
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The Bush administration’s proposal to secure the nation’s borders with a high-tech “virtual fence” is likely to cost far more than the $2 billion that industry analysts initially estimated, possibly up to $30 billion, a government watchdog agency warned yesterday.
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Former congressman Tom DeLay gave a speech about abortion to a gathering of college Republicans in Washington, D.C. “If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years,” said DeLay, “we wouldn’t need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.”
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A Mexican man was awarded Guinness Book of Record of the world’s fattest man at 1,234 pounds after losing 440 pounds. “I’m glad to be in the Guinness Book as the fattest man. I am also happy to have lost 200 kilos,” Manuel Uribe, 41, told AFP.
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New Orleans banned taco trucks.
[on the road again]
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A national association of immigration lawyers is suing the federal immigration agency for refusing to accept thousands of applications for work-based permanent visas from highly skilled immigrants who were encouraged by the government to apply.
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The State Department and the immigration service abruptly withdrew tens of thousands of job-based visas they had offered last month to foreign professionals hoping to become permanent residents in the United States.
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3% of Americans approve of Congress’s handling of the immigration issue.
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In Mexico, at least 100,000 people packed Mexico City’s central square Monday to mark the launch of a parallel government led by defeated Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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The State Department has indicated it is not going to press the Mexican government over the murder of American journalist Brad Will. He was shot dead on Friday by Mexican gunmen tied to the government.
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Hundreds of federal riot police officers and soldiers took up positions outside this besieged tourist city in southern Mexico over the weekend. President Vicente Fox, in his final month in office, on Saturday ordered federal troops in after three people, including a New York photographer, were killed in Oaxaca the evening before.
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President Bush signed a law to build a border fence along the US-Mexico border. The fence will be hundreds of miles long and cost about 6 billion dollars. “It’s what the people of this country want,” Bush said.
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Felipe Calderon was declared president-elect Tuesday after two months of uncertainty, but his ability to rule effectively remained in doubt as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador refused to recognize the victory and vowed to lead a parallel leftist government from the streets.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office said Friday that he turned down a White House request to more than double the number of California National Guard troops that will be deployed to the border.
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The Senate has voted to build a 370 mile fence along parts of the Mexico border to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country.
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President Bush has called for 6,000 National Guard troops to be deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border.
“The United States must secure its borders,” he said.
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Mexico is to reconsider a drug law that would have permitted the possession of small quantities of hard drugs, after the US called it stupid.
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President George W. Bush urged U.S. senators on Wednesday to break a stalemate over an immigration law overhaul and pass legislation that includes a temporary worker program but avoids amnesty for an estimated 11 million illegal migrants.
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A new Time poll shows 79% support a guest worker program while only 47% support the Republican House bill. A substantial majority, 75%, say they should not be allowed to have government services, such as health care or food stamps, and 69% say they shouldn’t be able to get a driver’s license. A slight majority, 51%, think public schools ought to be off-limits.
[no school for you]
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