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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | June 2007 
US Wall Violates Mexican Territory
 Prensa Latina
| | A US Border Patrol agent scans the Rio Grande through a fence on the US-Mexico border 26 June. The US Senate on Tuesday resurrected a divisive immigration bill that would offer legal status to 12 million illegal immigrants, even though influential Republicans in the House of Representatives vowed to kill the measure. (AFP/Chip Somodevilla) |
Mexico City - The Mexican government demanded on Tuesday that the United States remove a section of the metallic wall that is building on the common border, after detecting that the structure is violating Mexican territory.
According to a communiqué from the Mexican Foreign Ministry, as a result of periodical inspections on the project, it was detected that the wall is six feet south of the US border, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The press release expresses Mexico's total disagreement with the situation and demands the immediate removal of that section of the wall, because it violates the atmosphere of cooperation and mutual responsibility that must exist between the two countries.
In reply to the communiqué, the US government expressed its willingness to remove that section of the wall "as soon as possible" and prevent, from now on, any action that can violate Mexican territory.
The section of the wall will be demolished by a US working team supervised by the International Commission on Limits and Water, made up by officials from the two countries.
The US Congress approved the construction of the wall in some sections of the 1,865-mile common border by December 2008, in an effort to curb illegal immigration and improve security.
Mexican authorities have repeatedly said that the wall has a negative environmental impact on the border area, especially on migratory species. |
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