Posted on 11/05/2004 4:00:52 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
AUSTIN - Flanked by Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez, U.S. Sen Kay Bailey Hutchinson on Thursday said reviving an immigration agreement with Mexico will be among the top priorities for President Bush during his second term.
Derbez, responding to a question, said those "discussions have already begun," indicating the topic of an immigration accord was broached during a brief early-morning phone conversation Wednesday between Mexican President Vicente Fox and Bush hours before the U.S. president acknowledged his victory against Sen. John Kerry.
Saying Fox had called Bush at 7 a.m. to congratulate him on his re-election, Derbez said in Spanish that the two leaders "talked about their mutual agenda and agreed to initiate high-priority talks, especially with respect to immigration."
The U.S.-educated diplomat said both men agreed that "reforming a migration accord will receive high consideration" when the two leaders are scheduled to meet at a conference in Santiago, Chile on Nov. 19 and 20.
Later, speaking in English to a reporter, Derbez noted that "we appear to be moving in the right direction, but in the end, (immigration) is a U.S. issue and a (Bush immigration plan) is one that will have to be workrd out between the (U.S.) Congress and the White House.
Hutchison, a Texas Republican, invited Derbez and U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans to give the inagural talk to the Kay Baily Hutchison Chair in Latin American Law at the University of Texas at austi Law School.
The academic's chair goal, she said, will be to enhance academic collaboration and create a center to foster research on international relations, trade and investment in the Americas and Latin American law.
In introducing Derbez, Hutchison said "there is a sense of urgency to deal with the (immigration) issue, and I believe that with the president's resounding victory, his next four years will give him the chance to do what he intended to do before 9-11."
Bush and Fox were said to have been working on a guest worker program that would have allowed Mexican workers to legally reside and work in the United States for a specific period of time, between three to six years, before returning to Mexico.
But 9-11 and the resulting emphasis on homeland security shelved those plans.
"The devil is in the details," Hutchison said. "But I do believe that (Bush) will have as his priority to ...have a worker program that will permit a free flow (of workers) across the border, but one that will have to mesh workers' needs with our homeland security needs, and that will take time."
She noted that whatever program might be adopted by Congress may not resemble the specific plan Bush envisioned early in his first administration.
That doesn't sound like a lot of gratitude for the $1 billion more of taxpayer dollars for free health care.
You want your children and grandchildren working in a sweatshop for some greedy slob? Whatever floats your boat, but don't wish it on the rest of us.
'Course we all know that's Swahili country.....
That's the real fear with that one. Near-slave labor only benefits those who are profitting by it --- they never intend to pay for the costs of their cheap labor --- that's for the taxpayers.
Just the other day I saw someone suggest "Tancredo/Hutchison 2008". I'm not sure if the person was joking.
That's because Kerry would have given them twice as much. They know whose store has more free candy in it.
I've seen everything from 17% to 45%.
That's our best hope --- the choice was between Kerry giving up our sovereignty to the UN and Bush giving it up to the Mexican government --- but the Mexican government is easier to defeat in the long-run.
Naw! The ACLU would just file suit because of the over crowded living conditions.
We'll probably never know for sure, especially with all the illegal aliens voting.
If they weren't they need to be fitted for a strait jacket.
If Bush asumes that somehow translates into a mandate for a guest worker plan he avoided talking about like the plague during his campaign, he's a fool.
Obviously Bush knows better --- or he wouldn't have tried to disguise blanket amnesty as a guest worker plan, he would have just come out with it --- be honest. For whatever reason, on this issue, Vicente Fox has him by the scruff of his neck. Vicente Fox will make no effort to improve anything in Mexico because he knows he has the upper hand in this issue. He has sent 1/5 of his citizens over to the USA and is even more forceful in demanding we take in more. There is no end in sight to Fox's demands.
We don't need 20-story pink buildings -- not one 40 year old single wide trailers can hold 3 large families or building codes can be ignored so that shacks made of discarded wood pallets can be built.
Hit the keyword for 'guestworker' for the old threads from January when this proposal first was floated. Maybe one of the most unpopular Bush proposals ever.
From the recently re-elected by a landslide, Honorable Tom Tancredo:
President's guest worker proposal is both dangerous and unworkable (1-24-04)
Time for Tom to break out the typewriter again.
Hey no prob, the more the merrier.
Time for Tom to break out the typewriter again.
I'm sure he will.
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