Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Hadrian's Wall

The United States House of Representatives has recently passed a bill that would allow for the construction of a 700 mile fence along the US-Mexican border in addition to increasing funding to troops and police in order to halt the flow if illegal migrants in to the United States. In reaction to this, a group of 11 Latin American countries (Mexico, Central American nations, Colombia, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic) met in Cartagena this week and agreed to send a delegation to lobby Congress (specifically, the Senate) to modify or defeat this bill, noting how greatly hispanic workers contribute to the American economy. If you want to read the article in its entirety go here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe if they kept their people home we wouldn't need a wall.

Huck said...

Anonymous - And maybe, if US businesses stopped hiring them, we wouldn't need a wall, too.