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MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government said Monday that it is drafting a resolution for the United Nations Human Rights Council criticizing U.S. plans to build hundreds of miles of fencing on its southern border.

Mexican Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba, who is president of the 47-member council, said the resolution will denounce the fence for violating human rights and driving undocumented migrants to cross the border in more remote and dangerous areas.

The resolution will be presented to the council next week, he said.

The United States is an observer but not a member of the council, which this year replaced the widely discredited U.N. Human Rights Commission.

At the council's first sessions this year, members failed to reach agreement on the most hotly debated issues such as on human rights violations in Sudan.

Last month, the U.S. Senate approved the bill to build 700 miles of border fencing and President Bush has said he will sign it into law – despite pleas from the Mexican government for a veto.

Mexican President Vicente Fox has called the plans "shameful" and compared it to the Berlin Wall.

There are an estimated 11 million Mexicans living in the United States, about half whom don't have the proper documentation.