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Mexico's frustration with U.S. immigration policy builds
The Statesman ^ | November 17, 2007 | Jeremy Schwartz

Posted on 11/21/2007 7:50:42 AM PST by Sonora

Mexico's frustration with U.S. immigration policy builds

Government, advocates are calling for measures to influence U.S. public opinion.

By Jeremy Schwartz

MEXICO CITY BUREAU

Saturday, November 17, 2007

MEXICO CITY — Anger in Mexico is growing in the wake of a number of new state laws in the United States considered by critics to be anti-Mexican, a shift probably reflected in President Felipe Calderón's verbal lashing this week of U.S. presidential candidates.

In tougher rhetoric toward U.S. immigration policies, Calderón scolded presidential candidates for using migrants as thematic hostages and announced a media campaign aimed at influencing American public opinion.

Calderón's comments represented a dramatic departure from the statements of past leaders and were welcomed by many in Mexico.

"I think the current American government has gone too far against illegal Mexicans," said Fernando Garcia, a 36-year-old Mexico City administrator. "I don't like the raids and how they destroy families (and) ... the hate they are generating against Mexicans."

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(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; bravosierra; immigrantlist; ingrates; mexicoillegals; thirdworldkaka; wtf
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"I think the current American government has gone too far against illegal Mexicans,"

Let's think about this - they are illegal - how far is too far - is sending them back too far? What a load of codswallop. I’m going to need a bigger wheelbarrow, if the Mexican government doesn't just shut up.

1 posted on 11/21/2007 7:50:44 AM PST by Sonora
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To: Sonora

Oh, trust me, Meheeco, OUR frustration with YOUR laws (or lack thereof) is building as well. Frustration is quite mutual right now.

Where’s Black Jack Pershing when you need him?

}:-)4


2 posted on 11/21/2007 7:52:35 AM PST by Moose4 (Wasting away again in Michaelnifongville.)
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To: Sonora

Frustration? The feeling is mutual.


3 posted on 11/21/2007 7:52:43 AM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: Sonora
We have an immigration policy?
4 posted on 11/21/2007 7:53:54 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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"I think the current American government has gone too far against illegal Mexicans,"

What a maroon.

5 posted on 11/21/2007 7:54:07 AM PST by LasVegasMac (Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
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To: Sonora

L.O.L.!!!...how about TO DAMN BAD?


7 posted on 11/21/2007 7:54:14 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sonora

Adios, inmigrante ilegal.


8 posted on 11/21/2007 7:54:20 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Sonora

.."tuffo"

9 posted on 11/21/2007 7:54:29 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: null and void

Call 60 Minutes !


10 posted on 11/21/2007 7:57:09 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Sonora

This is the same mentality that psses me off about welfare recipients and leftists in general -

WE’RE ENTITLED TO YOUR STUFF.


12 posted on 11/21/2007 7:58:39 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Sonora

Mexico, my “Give A Damn” is broken.


13 posted on 11/21/2007 7:59:27 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Sonora
Am I the only person that hears this clowns name and thinks of “Miami Vice”
14 posted on 11/21/2007 7:59:32 AM PST by sticker
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"I think the current American government has gone too far against illegal Mexicans,"

Gee, Fernando, have we even gone as far as Mexico's handling of their illegal immigrants? Hmm?

15 posted on 11/21/2007 8:00:39 AM PST by polymuser (There is one war and one enemy.)
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To: Sonora

Put the military on the border...with tanks and F-16s.


16 posted on 11/21/2007 8:01:46 AM PST by abercrombie_guy_38
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To: Sonora
awwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I just don’t think I can sleep at night knowing the ILLIGALS are being sent home. (SNIFFLE)
17 posted on 11/21/2007 8:01:56 AM PST by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: abercrombie_guy_38

...with tanks and A-10s...


18 posted on 11/21/2007 8:03:04 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: Sonora

“Anger in Mexico is growing in the wake of a number of new state laws
in the United States considered by critics to be anti-Mexican...”

Critics are wrong.
Americans just want ILLEGAL repatriated to wherever they came from.

E.g., Charlotte, NC has spent at least a year checking immigration
status of detainees and arrestees. Of the illegals they find, about
10 percent are NOT from “south of the border”.
And they get the boot just like any other Illegal.


19 posted on 11/21/2007 8:04:03 AM PST by VOA
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To: Sonora

I get sick and tired of tin-horn, third world idiots like Calderon trying to tell the citizens of the USA how to run our affairs. I’ll listen to him when he cleans up the mess in his own freakin’ house.


20 posted on 11/21/2007 8:04:44 AM PST by 50mm (Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist - G. Carlin)
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To: polymuser
I think the current American government has gone too far against illegal Mexicans,"...

O.K. I guess I just don't understand why the U.S. doesn't simply adopt reciprocal laws from other countries. We should have the same laws regarding illegal immigrants as the Mexican gubmint! Then, let them complain. Our response would then simply be, You change your laws, we'll change ours!".

21 posted on 11/21/2007 8:05:50 AM PST by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: Sonora

Well, Mexico, we’ll be glad do the honorable thing and send these poor, mistreated illegals back to their southern paradise. Have the buses waiting at the border.


22 posted on 11/21/2007 8:06:04 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: Sonora

Screw ‘em!


23 posted on 11/21/2007 8:07:09 AM PST by TankerKC (You don't have to believe everything you think.)
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To: Sonora

It is amazing that Mexicans aren’t frustrated with the villainy within their own country

I haven’t confirmed this but I spoke with a Mexican woman a couple years ago. She said that in Mexico City that kidnapping is so rampant that if you keep the victim for no more than two days that it is only a misdemeanor.

When I ran it by another Mexican, he said that he had never heard of it, but since she was talking about Mexico City which all Mexicans know is the light-years more corrupt than the rest of the county that it might be possible.


24 posted on 11/21/2007 8:08:01 AM PST by Psychic Dice (ArtOfPsychicDice.com)
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To: cripplecreek

I am thinking our ‘visitors’ are feeling the pinch of the slowing economy, They are upset the amount of $ their relatives in the states are sending back is slowing. The changing laws will further slow the cash, and the lack of opportunity and welfare will slowly lead to their returning to Mexico. The last thing Calderon wants is the unemployed masses to start returning home.


25 posted on 11/21/2007 8:08:16 AM PST by milwguy (........)
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To: Sonora

We need another General Winfield Scott to go down there and administer some strict Yankee Justice.


26 posted on 11/21/2007 8:08:20 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: VOA
Critics are wrong.
Americans just want ILLEGAL repatriated to wherever they came from.

Soooo true. With the self serving B. S. arguments they use they must believe everyone is dumb as a rock.

27 posted on 11/21/2007 8:08:29 AM PST by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: Sonora

We need to restructure our immigration laws to be just like those of Mexico, and then ENFORCE THEM VIGOROUSLY.

Then, Mr. Cauldron, you can just STFU.


28 posted on 11/21/2007 8:09:35 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Scrape the bottom, vote for Rodham!)
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To: Sonora

I wish Americans would stop going there for vacation.


29 posted on 11/21/2007 8:09:54 AM PST by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: milwguy

I am thinking our ‘visitors’ are feeling the pinch of the slowing economy, They are upset the amount of $ their relatives in the states are sending back is slowing. The changing laws will further slow the cash, and the lack of opportunity and welfare will slowly lead to their returning to Mexico. The last thing Calderon wants is the unemployed masses to start returning home.

Your comment is right on mark. But, I expect they’ll be wanting unemployment too.


30 posted on 11/21/2007 8:11:15 AM PST by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: Sonora

A good President would invoke the Riot Act for the border states.


31 posted on 11/21/2007 8:14:28 AM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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To: Moose4

Where’s Teddy Roosevelt when you need him?


33 posted on 11/21/2007 8:15:40 AM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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To: Sonora

“announced a media campaign aimed at influencing American public opinion.”

I am sure it will get alot of play from the media and alot of attention from the moonbat left.....as well as the Senor Bush administration.


35 posted on 11/21/2007 8:16:43 AM PST by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: TexasRedeye

I guess in the end it’s all about cheap labor, voting blocks and Mexico’s oil reserves. Our demands mean squat.


36 posted on 11/21/2007 8:16:47 AM PST by polymuser (There is one war and one enemy.)
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To: Moose4

John Joseph is rolling in his grave.


38 posted on 11/21/2007 8:17:44 AM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Sonora
Dear President Calderon:

We have reconsidered the immigration policy of the United States in light of your recent comments and have decided to allow all Mexicans who currently reside illegally in this country to remain in return for unrestricted access to all your petroleum and other natural resources.

I have instructed the Joint Chiefs of Staff to begin the resource reclamation project immediately. You should be hearing the sounds of their efforts shortly. I suggest you seek shelter without delay.

Sincerely,

Jorge W. Bush

39 posted on 11/21/2007 8:17:58 AM PST by T. Rustin Noone (Angels want to wear my red shoes...)
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If you cannot make your point without using profanity, I will give you a day off to learn how.


41 posted on 11/21/2007 8:21:08 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Sonora

“Just the idea that our children will live in ... humiliation is something we cannot allow,”

Here’s an alternative. Live in Mexico. Problem solved.


42 posted on 11/21/2007 8:22:08 AM PST by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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43 posted on 11/21/2007 8:22:50 AM PST by tumblindice
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Dear Fernando Garcia,

Guess what, bubbe, we’re even more frustrated with Mexico’s corruption, incompetent government, and the dumping of people Mexico doesn’t want on the USA and then pitching a conniption whenever these “undocumented guests” aren’t given treament in the USA like they were the bloddy House of Windsor jetting in for a weekend visit! STHU, “mister” Garcia! You and President Calderon would be better served by cleaning up the mess in Mexico, its corrupt goverment, and minding your own effing damn business!

Where’s Teddy Roosevelt when you need him! A different Administration would have considered these shenangigans by Calerdon, Fox, and their minions as not only unwarrented and outrageous interference in US internal affairs, but any other country whose neighbors acted like this would consider such antics as borderline (if not actual) declaration of hostitilies!

Mexico is about as much of a “friend” to the USA as Hamas and Fata are “friends” of Israel.


44 posted on 11/21/2007 8:24:29 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA (A voter wavering between wanting radical change and burning the damn place down)
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To: wastedyears
Hmmm. We know that:

1.) Illegals are looking for work in the U. S. .

2.) Many farmers depend on Illegals to do agricultural work at low, low cost.

3.) It costs the U.S. lots of money to patrol the borders process and either repatriate Illegals.

How about, we put each undocumented guest worker to a year of hard labor on farms before deporting them to their country of origin. This would go a long way toward financing border security, provide cheap farm labor and dry up the cycle of people crossing our borders, being deported and returning.

45 posted on 11/21/2007 8:27:08 AM PST by robertc5 (Erm)
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To: All

Canada prospers, Mexico doesn’t. Doesn’t matter how much free-trade we got with anyone.


46 posted on 11/21/2007 8:27:12 AM PST by Hunterite
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To: wastedyears

“A good President would invoke the Riot Act for the border states.”

Well, that leaves out Senor Bush. And I predict none of the current wannabe clowns would be any better.


47 posted on 11/21/2007 8:27:42 AM PST by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: Sonora
What a load of codswallop. I'm going to need a bigger wheelbarrow, if the Mexican government doesn't just shut up.

Time to go buy a bigger wheelbarrow 'cause here comes some more codswallop.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox and his pal Rob Allyn advocating for the downtrodden and trying to influence U.S. public opinion:

The American dream: A beacon of hope, not walls of fear
By Vicente Fox & Rob Allyn
Nov. 10, 2007

Excerpts:

As Americans [that's right, Vicente Fox is an American] we are, most of us, descendants of immigrants.

America is more than the name the United States gives to itself. In Canada, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, we consider the entire hemisphere to be the Americas. America is the New World, a beacon of hope to the bold and the desperate. In this sense we are all Americans.

America is not just a country or even a hemisphere, but an ideal.

[The haunting strains of Kumbaya can be heard in the background if you listen carefully.]

We long for an America of bridges, not walls. An America where gates of love open to those caught in the barbed wire of hate. An America of open hearts and arms, where today, we find too many closed minds.

Most of all, we pray for a revolution of hope to restore the founding spirit of our hemisphere, where the Statue of Liberty once welcomed the eager dreams of our forebears.

Such a revolution of hope could help heal the divide between haves and have-nots, between America and the rest of the world.

It is the ideals of the American dream — liberty, equal opportunity, free trade, immigration, open doors of opportunity to every child — that make this country the last, best hope of freedom on this Earth.

A wall around the United States would suffocate the American dream.

It would be a terrible mistake to allow fear and xenophobia to wall the United States off from the rest of the world... The America we love, the America of our grandfathers, could never build that wall.

As neighbors, friends and partners in the American dream, we should stop building walls between us. Instead, we should join hands together, and build the American dream we all share.

/ Kumbaya

48 posted on 11/21/2007 8:29:09 AM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: Sonora
He favors the creation of a kind of anti-defamation league for Mexican immigrants in the United States and has supported the idea of building support centers along the border for deported Mexicans. Such centers would offer food, clothing and shelter for deportees.

Of course, Calderon. Start suing our local governments with the money you're getting back from your slave trade to the North.

Border Shelters, huh? Give the deportees a rest right at the border and let them try to sneak back ASAP. When some are deported again, it's OK, more get through than are captured.

Calderon, you idiot, you're playing with many lives of your slaves-for-export and illegals will get no sympathy from this side of the border, soon.

Our ball-less government and politicians, allow Calderon’s meddling in the US internal affairs. I doubt very much the US citizenry will follow suit.

Don't cry, Calderon, when your own ass will be on the line trying to stop a giant from crushing your arrogant slaves and cartels.

49 posted on 11/21/2007 8:29:21 AM PST by melancholy (Beware of Ho Chi Minh's offspring, Ho She Marx , invading the WH.)
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To: Sonora

Just once, I’d like to hear our government answer: Sucks to be you, Mexico


50 posted on 11/21/2007 8:33:00 AM PST by Hoffer Rand
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