Senior E.U. official condemns U.S.-Mexico fence

While visiting Mexico City yesterday, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana criticized plans to erect additional fencing along the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Said Solana (image):

“A wall that separates one country from another is not something that I like or that the European Union members like. The EU believes immigrants should be treated like people, not like criminals.”

Solana also expressed his deepest sympathies with the victims of Monday’s shootings at Virginia Tech University. He is accompanied by several other E.U. officials during a tour this week of five Latin American countries.

Solana’s comments come in light of an ABC News/Washington Post poll that shows how most Americans do not approve of the way President George W. Bush and Congress are handling the issue of immigration.

Links- CNN, Monsters & Critics, Prensa Latina, ABC News

Image- Al Jazeera