New, Old, What’s The Difference?

I was reading the Yahoo News and saw that this particular item was placed second behind a blurb about Hillary Clinton and how many people really don't like her all that much. But the Washington Post also caught it and moved it into first place, so to speak. It seems Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico has a wee bit of trouble understanding exactly who his constituents are. He appears to believe he represents Mexico, not New Mexico.

WASHINGTON — New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson says a fence at the Mexican border authorized by Congress this fall "gets in the way" of U.S.-Mexico relations, and he wants the new Democratic Congress to reverse the legislation.

"The fence is very unpopular on the border in Texas and New Mexico, in Chihuahua," Richardson, a Democrat, said after meeting Wednesday with leaders from the Mexican state of Chihuahua. "So one of the most significant and constructive acts the U.S. Congress should take is to get rid of it."

The border fence is unpopular in Chihuahua. Ok. And that matters to the citizens of the United States how, exactly? I've seen quite a lot of other articles describing how very unhappy American citizens are that the border is a sieve that allows a flood of people across every day. I've read a bunch of articles that said residents who live on the border are scared to death of the flood of people tearing across their land. Of course those are American citizens and legal residents.

But heck, Richardson appears to be more worried about the folks in Chihuahua.