Mexico's Fox Defends Comments on Radio

SFGate.com ^ | May 22, 2005 | MORGAN LEE, Associated Press Writer

[madfly]

President Vicente Fox on Sunday defended his commitment to minorities and human rights on a U.S. radio program, in his first public response to his controversial comment that Mexicans take the U.S. jobs that "not even" blacks want.

U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson pressed the Mexican president for an apology for the remark that has strained already tense relations between U.S. blacks and Hispanics, during an interview on a Chicago gospel station.

"I very much regret the misinterpretation," said Fox, touting laws created under his administration that outlaw discrimination and protect minorities.

Fox met with Jackson behind closed doors on Wednesday in Mexico City after the president's comments about blacks ignited a firestorm of criticism from the black community and angered the U.S. government.

[janetgreen]

If our government doesn't seal the borders by 2006, I will forget what a republican looks like

DITTO!

You're lucky to have Gallehy - I'm stuck with Jane Harman, and would vote for Mickey Mouse before voting for her.

[international american]

Harman? Oh yeah, Harman Kardon. Just like Boxer and Feinstein; married big money, and spends it trying to wreak havok with anyone and anything decent.

[international american]

BTTT

[Kenny Bunk]

The fact is illegals have pushed alot of Americans out of the trades.

Int, you have violated not one, but TWO, rules of debate on the illegal immigration issue:

1. You have used a fact.
2. You have used common sense and
your powers of observation

Last warning, dude.

[Cinnamon]

Fox is a socialist, which is another term for Left winger... the left wing in america thinks like that too, they just don't tell it straight

[livius]

Actually, Fox was from the (relatively) conservative party, and was the first non PRI (raving Socialist party) candidate elected in something like 70 years.

He's been a terrible disappointment to both the US and Mexico, however, and his own party is not even running him again.

That said, he should simply shut his mouth and let Jesse go stew in his own juice. It was a dumb thing to say, one apology would have been sufficient, but now he's making it worse. Fox is a loser, no matter how you cut it.

[international american]

Mea Culpa.....................



R O T F L M A O !!!!

[LowOiL]

Wow... Jesse Jackson must have $$$ to be made somewhere in this.

[LowOiL]

I've seen Mexicans riding bicycles to work in a rainstorm to make sure that they made it to work. Most Americans I know--yours truly included--would call in sick if no other transportation was available.

I've been plowed under by one of those illegals driving a car without the ability to even read the street signs. I never see them driving bicycles above the age of 14 around here. BTW.. I have no idea where that illegal person that hit me is now... Do you?

[american spirit]

Could've fooled me....here in Dallas I see them driving around $30K pickups and $40K SUV's......pretty good for folks that can't even speak the language. My guess is the false ID places work overtime to make sure all their clientele have multiple identities for obtaining more taxpayer paid "services".

[TERMINATTOR]

That poor illegal invader was just stealing bicycles that Americans won't.

[L.N. Smithee]

Fox could do us all a big favor if he worked to make the lives of the people living in his own country better instead of shipping them northward.

If there wasn't already scads of evidence of liberal media bias, the fact that no network takes up that point and examines it in-depth proves it.

[sheik yerbouty]

Yeah. Watching the race racketeers indicted under RICO or indicted for tax evasion..

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The liberal media never will either, not with all those democratic voters pouring in.