I get the feeling that the reporter heard a different speech than I did.
Nah, same speech...it's just that the reporter was expecting to hear one set of facts, and heard something entirely different. That is, our President spoke to our concerns, not Mexico's, for a change.
Yeah, it kind of works that way, unless you forbid any of your people from immigrating here.
BWWHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I wonder if the guy puffed out his chest when he wrote that.
Mexico has the right to set its' own immigration policy without US intervention, and we retain that very same right. it goes along with sovereignty. doesn't make us xenophobes or whatever clever names they want to call us.
I think diplomats should suggest to Mexico that they open their borders to any USA citizen who wants to go to Mexico and live forever, but allow them to retain USA citizenship, but vote in Mexican elections. Yhey can buy any property they wish, any business they wish, be eligible for any government program available to Mexican citizens, travel anywhere they wish. If they want to talk about fair, make it fair, not just one sided in Mexico's favor. Then all our retirees can buy property in Mexico and we can take over their economy as well. Mexico can be the 51st State as far as I'm concerned.
I understand you can be shot trying to enter Mexico from the south. No hypocrisy here, nosiree...
Mexican go home. And stay there, damnit!
Meanwhile, the Mexican government has military troops stationed on its southern border to prevent foreigners from Central America and South America from illegally entering Mexico. It looks as if the xenophobic Mexican government is cracking down on immigrants who want to enter Mexico.
Poor babies. How about these messages to the author of this article and all of his ilk:
#1, it's not a Berlin style wall you bellyaching fool. That wall kept people bottled up in a repressive regime inside that oppressive regime. This one will keep illegal entrants out of a free one. If you can't see the difference, its either because you are hoplelessly ignorant, hopelessly biased, or you have another agenda entirely that is not in the best interest of the US...and for us Americans, that is what this is about.
#2, OF COURSE it is a plan fashioned by Americans that Mexicans will have to live with. It impacts issues on American soil, in our soveriegn territory. Soveriegn means we have exclusive control of it. Again...check on your literacy or your bias. In either case, we Americans will take care of our own problems on our soveriegn soil to our best interests.
If that happens to be something Mexicans agree with...great. If not, elect a government that can deal with it yourselves there south of the border on your soveriegn soil.
Finally, as much as this writer and his ilk would like to try and paint it differently...none of the issues currently under serious consideration are anti-immigration. They are anti-illegal entry. And that is how it should be. If you have a problem with that, take it up with the Mexicans themselves and the measures they use on their own southern border. Talk about hypocritical...but hey, that's their border and their way of handling their own problem.
We allow them that...and we will handle our own in our own way as well.
"As a flood of xenophobia-tinged border security and immigrant-crackdown bills work their way through both houses of the U.S. Congress,..."
"A more justifiable dose of reality that sovereignty-minded Mexico should have no trouble swallowing is the United States' right to control its borders and regulate immigration."
I won't believe a word Bush or the rest of the politicians speak about border control until I see cement being poured at the border for the fence.
So far, its been broken promises and hotair.
"It will not work with Mexico to find creative solutions to what's essentially a cross-border job supply-and-demand inequity. Instead it will seal the border against Mexican workers using every means available, from Berlin-style walls to unmanned aircraft."
Amigo spoke with hypocrisy. I haven't noticed ole Mexico inviting in millions of Guatemalans, Hondurans, and other neighbors to its South. Also, I haven't read anywhere about Mexican taxpayers paying emergency room bills for American tourists, etc.
Ignore the broadsides from the Mexican media. Build a fence. Seal the border. Deport the illegals.
Then open the door to legal Mexicans or others who seek a work permit valid for one year only.
Now that this subject of Illegal Immigration has finally reached a White House that has purposelessly deafened it's ears to it for the last six years (for the profit margins of it's highest contributors utilizing neo-slave labor) are we expected to believe that our government is serious about tightening security? All yap and no action has allowed 80,000 non Mexicans in, at least 5,000 from Islamic radical countries posing as physically similar Mexicans. Those radicals, unlike the Mexicans, have a pre-prepared network of mosques ready and willing to hide and support them once they're in country. As 80% of those mosques are supported by Wahabbist fundamentalist Saudi Arabian sources I can't see how this potential crisis remains non-news - especially considering the travesty of how Arabic-appearing men of young age are NOT to be checked out lest they bring up accusations of profiling. WHAT A LOAD! Tick, tick, tick...
As a legal immigrant myself I can say it without fear of the PC police: "mutual respect" is possible only among equals. Countries and "groups" who demand it probably have a thousand years of evolution left before they qualify as "civilized", and demand anything.
Yes, U.S. immigration reform is none of Mexico's damned business!
Perhaps the reporter needs a refresher course on the definition of "sovereign"?