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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2006 
Mexico Drafts UN Resolution Criticizing US Border Fence
 Associated Press
| | A young boy looks into the United States from Mexico along the US-Mexico border fence in San Ysidro, California. A fence along the US border with Mexico, which US lawmakers approved to stop illegal immigrants, became a sounding board for criticism from Mexico, Latinos and opposition Democrats weeks before elections. (AFP/Getty) |
The Mexican government said Monday that it is drafting a resolution for the United Nations Human Rights Council criticizing U.S. plans to build hundreds of miles of fencing on its southern border.
Mexican Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba, who is president of the 47-member council, said the resolution will denounce the fence for violating human rights and driving undocumented migrants to cross the border in more remote and dangerous areas.
The resolution will be presented to the council next week, he said.
The United States is an observer but not a member of the council, which this year replaced the widely discredited U.N. Human Rights Commission.
At the council's first sessions this year, members failed to reach agreement on the most hotly debated issues such as on human rights violations in Sudan.
Last month, the U.S. Senate approved the bill to build 700 miles (1,100 kilometers) of border fencing and President Bush has said he will sign it into law - despite pleas from the Mexican government for a veto.
Mexican President Vicente Fox has called the plans "shameful" and compared it to the Berlin Wall.
There are an estimated 11 million Mexicans living in the United States, about half whom don't have the proper documentation. |
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