Mexico's new southern border fence - paid for by US taxpayers?

[WhiskeyGirl]

What’s worse is that even as the United States has been elected to assume the responsibility for the issue of illegal immigration in Mexico, the American taxpayers are allegedly footing the bill for the construction of Mexico’s fence. According to the article “Mexico Builds a Fence on Their Own Southern Border,” the United States has provided Mexico with some of the funding to help build the fence on Mexico’s border, by way of the Merida Initiative. The State Department calls the Initiative a demonstration of “the United States’ commitment to partner with governments in Mexico, Central America, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic to confront criminal organizations whose actions plague the region and spill over into the United States." What the Initiative entails, however, is massive amounts of American tax dollars being funneled into Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.

In 2010 alone, the United States has given $450 million to Mexico, with an additional $100 million requested from Congress to be sent to Central America, in order to “provide equipment and training to support law enforcement operations and technical assistance for long-term reform and oversight of security agencies,” says the State Department.

It is disheartening to know that the State Department has placed the needs of other countries over those of the United States. One wonders, however, if Mexico will have better luck completing the construction of its fence than the United States has had.

more here - http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/north-america-mainmenu-36/4666-mexican-government-proves-to-be-supreme-hypocrite

When will American's come first?  Those that are citizens of the United States?  When will our southern border be secured?