Did anyone hear if this funding has been approved - the Merida Initiative - where the US provides the funding for Mexico to secure ITS southern border?
We can't seem to get our own built, but we're helping Mexico build THEIR border fence between them and Guatemala....
Seems Mexico doesn't want illegals coming into their country, so the US taxpayers get to foot the bill!
This has been going on "behind closed doors" with the State Dept for over a year. Appears to be part of the plan for the North American Union...
"The plan is called “
The Merida Initiative.” Seems that the White House has had this plan in the works for nearly a year with little congressional input on either side of the border.
We can’t finish
our own border fence, properly supply our immigration agents and border patrol with all the equipment and resources they need, or get our house in order. Yet, the Bush administration wants to fork over $1.4 billion to Mexico and Central America–with much of it going into the hands of corrupt law enforcement officials and government bureaucrats who have worked tirelessly to undermine our immigration laws. The funding is tucked into the 2008 supplemental budget.
Naturally, the
State Department has taken a lead role. They’ve held meetings in secret and cut out members of Congress from discussion. You’ll love the explanation for the secrecy: Mexico is “
sensitive,” you see. Also, according to one expert, “Mexico is very protective of its sovereignty and very worried about any incursion of U.S. security forces or private contractors—like Blackwater—coming in to train Mexicans.” Yeah,
they’re worried about
incursions and sovereignty.
The State Dept. disclosed the first phase of the Merida Initiative last October, involving some $550 million in aid for inspection scanners, helicopters, surveillance tools, and case management software..."
Unfortunately, I suspect that Hillary, Obama AND McCain are probably all "on board" with this plan , since they all seem to support the open border philosophy...
