From CNN.com:

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- A spokesman for Mexican President Vincente Fox on Wednesday said the United States will likely never build 700 miles of new fencing along the border dividing the two nations.

The fence received final approval in the United States last week.

But Fox's spokesman Ruben Aguilar said the U.S. Congress is unlikely to approve enough funding to finish the project.

"There is no money to build it, so it won't be built," Aguilar told reporters. "Even though the wall was approved, there is no funding."

No one knows how much the 700-mile (1,125-kilometer) fence will cost, but Congress sent a bill to the White House making a $1.2 billion down payment. A 14-mile (23-kilometer) segment of fence under construction in San Diego is costing $126.5 million.

On Monday, the Mexican government sent a diplomatic note to Washington criticizing last week's U.S. Senate vote to authorize the new fencing as part of congressional efforts to combat illegal immigration. (Watch U.S. Congress debate border fence -- 1:45)

On Tuesday, all eight parties in Mexico's Congress joined forces to exhort Fox to use all the diplomatic means at his disposal to try to stop the construction of the fence.

The bill must still be signed into law by President Bush, but Mexico is lobbying Bush to veto it.

U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey said Tuesday the U.S. was talking to Mexico about the issue of immigration, but he did not give details.

Aguilar said on Tuesday his country still wants comprehensive immigration reform that would allow more people to migrate to the United States legally.

"The wall will be useless and unworkable," Aguilar said, adding that it would adversely affect the environment, including the reproduction of some species.

Yes, I believe Mr. Aguilar is referring to the Mexican Species.

The other day while attending a get-together up in Hanover, PA I was shocked to hear people complaining that US Immigration and Citzenship forms were only in English! My initial reaction was, "Well, that's kinda the point isn't it?" The people in question were not hispanic, they are not in any way a minority. In fact, only one was an immigrant and he's a white from South Africa. They were noting the seemingly anachronistic questions US immigration officials pose on prior activity with either the Communist Party, Nazi Party or terrorist organizations. While they joked on these questions, the more pertinent question I thought would've been if this immigrant from South Africa had been involved in or benefited from Apartheid and the racist regime in Pretoria! I thought it best to be civil, as my views on immigration and society were decidedly in the minority, and didn't broach the subject...