Felipe Calderón
Posted on 04/21/2008 10:43:15 AM PDT by BGHater
Mexico's President Felipe Calderón comes to Dallas on Tuesday with bridge-building credentials. He has a Harvard master's degree, English fluency – and relatives who work illegally in the U.S.
All three attributes should serve him well when he meets separately with Mexican immigrant leaders and Texas business executives.
A crackdown against illegal immigrants is roiling Texas and much of the U.S., and its scope and fury haven't been seen in this country in at least 50 years, historians have said.
Dallas is the setting this week for a three-day conference of an advisory board to the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME), an organization founded in 2003 by the Mexican government. The board's mission is to promote economic development in Mexico and the U.S. while defending migrants working outside Mexico.
With about 125 members, the advisory board's influence is growing, analysts and Mexican government officials say. And that is why Mexico's president chose to visit the group's semiannual conference, which is being held outside Mexico for only the second time.
"The access of these Mexican migrants to the decision-making process in Mexico is rare, if not unprecedented, and it's growing," said Carlos González Gutiérrez, IME's director. "Sometimes we're not in total agreement with IME advisers, but the consultation between us is real, and this meeting in Dallas is a reflection of that. These are people who want to influence both sides of the border, so our relationship is far from being one-sided."
Indeed, the advisory board is often at odds with the Mexican government. Board members have said that Mexico remains a place of great social inequities because, for generations, its politicians have mismanaged the economy.
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Orwellian.
"I hope that Calderón acknowledges the fact that he understands that the U.S. is a sovereign country, just like Mexico is," said Jean Towell, president of Citizens for Immigration Reform in North Texas, which has no plans to protest the IME meeting. "I hope he understands that we have rules and a rule of law, and that he knows better than to tell us how we should apply our own immigration laws."
Anybody know his Freeper name?
"It is his responsibility to visit the Mexican communities abroad," said Dr. Tony Payan, a political scientist at the University of Texas at El Paso. "It is still a Mexican community under siege."
WTF? Mexican community under siege? What about America?
And has been said time and time again, if it were Americans that were going to Mexico for the same reasons, we’d be in their jails.
Big double standard.....
Would like to see the comparisons between Mexico’s illegal alien laws and ours .... then have him read it at this conference ....
If he’s so well educated why isn’t he solving Mexico’s problemos?...............
That guy has a lot of balls with relatives in this country that are illegal, to come here and try and bargain for them and the other 20 million illegal wetbacks.
It’s time to run these parasites out on a rail once and for all and jail or heavily fine any employer who puts them to work. If employers would not give them YOBS then their motivation to come here would be seriously hampered.
show of hands, how many hear the president of mexico’s name and think of Miami Vice
Calderon needs to stay home and fix his own problems.
If Mexico wasn’t such a shithole, Mexicans wouldn’t have to come to America to find work.
gezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
and this clown graduated from Harvard?
Who took his exams for him? LMAO
“Amid the clapping and cheers when we see the president, there will also be a sense of resentment because the majority of Mexicans I know were people who had no choice but to leave Mexico,” said Mr. Ramírez, 39, a U.S. citizen and advisory board member. “If Bill Gates had started Microsoft in Mexico, he’d still be in the garage 30 years later.”
Mexico doesn’t see that they have any problem. We’ve been taking care of their poor for years. Remember how trendy Mexico was back when we were babies and Carmen Miranda was making movies? Visiting the future upon us...
I guess that 'Harvard master's degree' didn't help him understand 'ILLEGALLY' work in the U.S. as in BREAKING THE LAW! /s
Try breaking the law in Mexico and she how 'bridge building' he is.
Folks, if he doesn't (or can't) clean up the crap in his own backyard, then it's time for us to officially annex Mexico and make it a part of the US. And put it under strict martial law if necessary. Because of its proximity, its instability poses almost as great a danger to the US and its interests as Saddam Hussein in Iraq did.
Annex them before they can say Aztlan?
Mexico + mafia = no problems
Felipe Calderón
Then it was fruit ON the head.......
I wanna tee shirt that says:
Kiss my Aztlan!............
Egad! She reminds me of Eva Longoria!
Here's a better pic.........BTW, she was Brazilian.......
“and this clown graduated from Harvard?
Who took his exams for him?”
This explains why Bush is his sock puppet - they BOTH graduated from Harvard!!!
‘because, for generations, its politicians have mismanaged the economy.’
Boy, you said a mouthful Felipe! And you’ve been expecting the US to pick up the tab for the last generation.
We’re returning your people along with a bill for their services. Feel free to pay it with your $115 bbl oil revenues.
Calderón is doing more for law and order to deal with problems in Mexico than the past five presdents. (I live and work in Mexico.) I believe in legal immigration. The laws and the communities in the U. S. promote illegal immigration more than they oppose it. Ask any immigration officer.
We should damn well annex them before they annex us.
Again and again, and definately now I remember 3AngelaD’s comparison with the cuckoo bird. Calderon’s looking out for his nestlings.
That is by DESIGN...............
This conference should be monitored. If they are promoting illegal activities or subversion to our constitution, it should be shut down.
This conference needs to be freeped!!!
I am sorry I don’t live in the US so I can do my part.
I just think we were set up by the popularity of her and Ricky Ricardo to be enthralled with all things Latin.
And *maybe* in about 30 years we can get around to their Tribunal.
AND JOSE JIMENEZ?..........
If Mexico wants so badly to be taken care of by the US, is it too unreasonable to suggest we take over Mexico? After all, then they would have a stable government, we would have a smaller Southern border, no more illegals, a steady supply of domestic oil and we could fix their/our drug problem. Hmmmm.
‘Sawright?
‘Sawright!...............
Ping!
I miss Speedy Gonzales and either Hanna or Barbera passed away not long ago...
and the Frito Bandito..........
Yo quiero Taco Bell...
You couldn’t pay me to eat at Taco Bell............
Try to imagine the reaction in Mexico (or any other country) if a US President jetted in to meet with a group dedicated to promoting law-breaking and subversion of the local and national law enforcement agencies..........
Good heavens, the outcries about US ‘arrogance’ and ‘imperialism’ would be deafening as every media and political entity went crazy raging at the US interference in the domestic affairs of another country.
Why do WE put up with such outrageous and offensive behavior directed at subverting OUR laws?
Me, neither. But the little dog was cute!
Oh. I wonder what happened to him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco_Bell_chihuahua
We have a Chihuahua........Chocolate brown named Coco......
Oil Bill Protest Shuts Mexican Congress
MEXICO CITY — The scene inside the lower house of Congress here on Friday morning resembled a college political rally more than a legislative chamber. A giant tarp dragged over the dais was painted with the word “CLOSED.”
Chairs blockaded entrances to the stage. Signs draped over the desks of congressional leaders called for a “national debate” on overhauling the state’s ailing oil monopoly, Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex for short. A group of left-leaning lawmakers in hard hats waved Mexican flags while the chairman of the energy committee, Alejandro Sánchez Comacho, chanted into a bullhorn.
“You don’t sell Pemex,” he shouted. “You defend Pemex.”
For eight days, leftist lawmakers have paralyzed both houses of Congress with a sit-in to stop a proposal by President Felipe Calderón that would revamp the oil monopoly and allow it greater freedom to hire private companies to build and operate refineries, find undersea oil fields and transport oil.
The protests have been orchestrated by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the populist leader who narrowly lost to Mr. Calderón in 2006.
Are Obrador’s clowns in the blockade protests a real threat or not?
The propaganda, agitation, bias and oblivious commentary coming from English language media on the situation makes it really hard to get a grasp on what’s going on with the Pemex protests.
We have a mini Dachsund named Buster. He likes BBQ - sausage in particular - and beer. He also likes breakfast tacos.
Our Chihuahua is the pickiest eater I've ever had. She will sniff and walk away if something is not to her liking......even hamburgers!.......
Presidente Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Oh. I wonder what happened to him?
He looked big enough to fill one taco. ;-)
The plan of Obrador and the duces that follow him is for him to become a leftist dictator of Mexico in cahoots with those of Central, South Am. and Cuba.
I don’t think they will make it. However, the risk of him becoming a president and later dictator is very real in my opinion. He is one of the biggest liars in the history of Mexico. For the poor people he says. From which of his mansions does he care for them? He uses class warfare better than a Clinton. I better shut up.
WTF???? Where’d my comment go? Oh, well; try again.
Sus amigo, Alberto del Mierda de Toro.
Not me. This is the image I have of mexico.
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