Posted on 02/07/2008 10:20:10 AM PST by ruination
MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that a shifting political climate in the U.S. could improve the chances that a new administration in Washington will help bring a comprehensive reform law that would legalize the status of Mexican immigrants.
In a wide-ranging conversation with The Times, Calderon, scheduled to visit California next week, also addressed the decline of the government-owned oil fields and the war against drug traffickers that has claimed thousands of lives.
"My hope is that whoever the next president is, and whoever is in the new [U.S.] Congress, will have a broader and more comprehensive view" of the immigration problem, Calderon said. Speaking at the presidential residence Los Pinos on the morning after the Super Tuesday presidential primaries in the U.S., Calderon said he took heart from the results, though he did not mention specific candidates.
"It seems to me that the most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate," Calderon said.
He arrives in Sacramento on Feb. 13 on the final leg of a five-day U.S. trip that will also take him to Chicago, Boston and New York to visit local officials and representatives of Mexican immigrant communities.
In Sacramento, he is scheduled to meet with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Latino legislators. In Los Angeles the following day, he is to meet Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and migrant groups' representatives assembled by the nine Mexican consulates in California.
He will tell fellow Mexican citizens "that we are actively working to defend their human rights," Calderon said. "No matter their immigration status, they are human beings with dignity and rights that should be respected. We are working, with the full effort of the government, to bring a halt to the campaigns that harass migrants."
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UGH. Makes me want to drink a 5th of really cheap tequila.
That ‘put in their place’ comment is un-american. Must be either a mexican thing or a Democrat thing.
Go to hell Flipping Calzone. You are President of Mexico, not America.
I can’t say what I want to say here or I’ll be banned.
Except to say that Senor Calderon could do a much better job of honoring the dignity and rights of Mexican citizens by keeping them in their own country and providing a better environment for them there, instead of offloading their problems here.
I am seriously beginning to think we’re going to end up in an armed conflict over this. Whether it’s some sort of civil war from within or an invasion of or from Mexico, I’m beginning to see it happening.
}:-)4
You mean he’s celebrating Mexico’s win in the second Mexican American War, in which hardly a shot was fired.
Yet.
There will be a lot of killing of Americans to come, but it will be hushed up as usual.
Sadly, he is 100% correct.
legalize the status of Mexican immigrantsAll of our Mexican immigrants are already legal.
It's the many folks who've crossed the border without going through the process of legally immigrating who are illegal.
I am strongly of the opinion that our legal processes for immigration are too rigid, too slow, too expensive, and too byzantine. They need to be fixed.
But that's an issue that is almost entirely unrelated to the question of what to do with the illegals.
We’re fast becoming the same third world hellhole they’re escaping from.
Not at the state and local levels, you ignorant jackass!
Isn’t it great we have consensus among our remaining presidential choices here? Isn’t it great we are going to elect a national leader that meets with the approval of the government of Mexico?
Perhaps now we can undo the injustice of the Mexican-American War of 1848 and return the southwest US to Mexico.
Are there any more foreign governments we can appease? Let’s be creative; let’s try. Spain back to Florida, Alaska to Russia, The western Mississippi/Missouri Valley to France? /sarc/
He is right. Time has come to boycott everything Mexcian.
That’s no accident.
Other than crime victims,and the world’s worst food, what does Mexico make?
Why not give the 13 original states to the British crown altogether? Heck let’s leave America and give it to the American Indians? Back to 1491 baby!!!
Hey Felipe, how come all these Mexicans want to leave your country? I mean you got a lot of oil and a nice climate. So, what’s the deal?
The people put an end to that attempted corruption before, and we'll do it again.
Don’t tell me that the president of Mexico is now campaigning for McCain?
I wonder how Hillary and Barack will respond to this news?
Calderon hands me one more nail to hammer into the vote coffin for John McCain.
I will sit it out and let Hillary or Obama get all the credit for the demise of the US.
I guess my last vote for Prez happened in 2004. Most likely it won’t happen again.
‘”It seems to me that the most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate,” Calderon said.’
It seems that the MSM is still deadly relevant. It has managed to trick an electorate that is solidly anti illegal immigration into voting out all the strong candidates on the issue.
What it truly shows is that illegal immigration is not the main issue for most voters. Not this time.
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