{"id":666,"date":"2007-04-18T17:13:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T21:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2007-04-18T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T21:13:48","slug":"eu-official-criticizes-us-mexico-wallwhat-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/eu-official-criticizes-us-mexico-wallwhat-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Official Criticizes U.S.-Mexico Wall&#8230;WHAT WALL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-mexico-eu-border-wall%2C0%2C1320414.story\">Newsday:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EU Official Criticizes U.S.-Mexico Wall&#8230;WHAT WALL?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EU Official Criticizes U.S.-Mexico Wall<\/p>\n<p>By Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>April 18, 2007, 12:13 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>MEXICO CITY &#8212; European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Tuesday criticized U.S. plans to extend barriers along its border with Mexico, saying immigrants should not be treated like criminals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A wall that separates one country from another is not something that I like or that the European Union members like,&#8221; Solana said at a news conference in Mexico City. &#8220;We don&#8217;t think walls are reasonable instruments to stop people from crossing into a country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EU believes immigrants should be treated &#8220;like people, not like criminals,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In October, President Bush signed a bill calling for 680 miles of new fencing to be built along the border, despite objections from the Mexican government.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico has lobbied for comprehensive immigration reform that would let more migrants enter the United States legally.<\/p>\n<p>More than 11 million Mexicans live in the United States, most illegally.<br \/>\nCopyright 2007 Newsday Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Newsday: EU Official Criticizes U.S.-Mexico Wall&#8230;WHAT WALL? EU Official Criticizes U.S.-Mexico Wall By Associated Press April 18, 2007, 12:13 AM EDT MEXICO CITY &#8212; European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Tuesday criticized U.S. plans to extend barriers along its border with Mexico, saying immigrants should not be treated like criminals. &#8220;A wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}