Posted on 12/04/2005 6:52:19 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
Press Release 239-
Mexico City-
Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez met with Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours Castelo as established in the agreements adopted in the Arizona-Mexico Commission on June 17th in Tucson, Arizona.
The Arizona-Mexico Commission is a forum for promoting economic development in the border region. The commission’s goal is to strengthen those aspects of the bilateral relationship that have to do with agriculture, education, communications, economic studies, industry, public health, tourism and trade.
The governors were accompanied by Víctor Flores, President of the Arizona-Mexico Commission; José Santos Gutiérrez, Vice President of the Arizona-Sonora Commission; Dennis Burke, head of Governor Napolitano’s cabinet, and Marco López, Executive Director of the Arizona-Mexico Commission. Foreign Secretary Derbez was accompanied by the Undersecretary for North America, Gerónimo Gutiérrez, and the General Director for North America, Juan Bosco Martí.
Economic development in the Arizona-Sonora area, migration, security and the importance of developing the border infrastructure were discussed, among other issues.
Regarding border infrastructure, the officials discussed the importance of making good progress with the San Luis Rio Colorado II Commercial Port of Entry (POE) project. They also discussed the progress of the FAST lanes project in the Mariposa POE. Regarding security, a report was given by Sonora officials regarding the Sonora Plan, and aspects of the Strong Border, Secure Arizona Program were also discussed.
The Foreign Secretary and the governors agreed on the fundamental role played by Mexican immigrants in the United States and the need to establish mechanisms for legal, safe and orderly migratory flows that respect the migrants’ human rights.
The meeting renewed the federal government’s commitment to giving impetus to economic development in the border area through cooperative mechanisms that guarantee the efficient and safe flow of individuals, goods and services.
The Arizona-Mexico Commission will meet from December 1-3 in San Carlos, Sonora.
Wonder if anyone from our federal government was at this meeting?
Arizonans need to get Janet employed elsewhere.
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Migration. We are witnessing mass migration from the have nots to the have's, regardless of borders and sovereignty. Notice this isn't the case on Mexico's southern border, where Mexico jealously guards its border and sovereignty while telling the US it has no business doing the same. Why the President puts up with this begs common sense and understanding, and the American public has been deceived, lied to for years. Well, here come the '06 elections, and the President and his party finally realize their base is fed up with it. Harriet Miers didn't go down in flames for nothing. Even the press has figured it out.
Haven't they tried all this before, mostly on the Tex-Mex border? Those industrial parks where American firms would build plants, hire Mexican labor cheap, produce the goods and sell them elsewhere? What happened, not much it seems. If it was so effective, why didn't they build hundreds of them? What really is going on?
As long as the Mexican government remains as corrupt as can be and doesn't give two s&$#! about it's citizens, and, American business illegally hires illegal aliens (who also get U.S. taxpayer funded goods and services for just being here), nothing is going to stop the continued flow of illegals. You either enforce the laws you have to contain the problem, or you build a wall. The rest is smoke and mirrors.
"What really is going on?"
Exactly!
Sounds like more of the same from the Mexican Foreign Ministry & the AZ Dimocrats and the RINOs too, I guess. Anyone expect anything different?
"What really is going on?"
IMHO, the welfare state has successfully done away with our manual labor work force. I remember 30 years ago trying to hire day labor and being told the government was paying a better wage to just sit on the porch and do nothing. Thanks to LBJ's 'Great Society', we have generations who feel entitled to a free ride courtesy of the American taxpayer. (can you say 'reparations'?) President Bush is, in effect, allowing the importation of a new (replacement) working class "To do the jobs Americans won't do themselves."
Lots of words on "ports of entry" and "migrants". NOTHING on illegals.
Our congress-critters should be asked: If mexico has this strict immigration/work program in place why can't we have the same???
What would that be, setting up refreshment stands on the illegal immigration and drug smuggling paths?
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