Posted on 01/19/2005 8:17:46 AM PST by JustAnotherSavage
DOBBS: The Mexican government has made yet another outrageous demand of the United States. Mexico is demanding the United States relax its immigration policy and standards.
CASEY WIAN, CNN : It's the last scheduled meeting between U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Mexican Interior Secretary Santiago Creel before Ridge leaves office in two weeks.
TOM RIDGE: I like being his amigo.
SANTIAGO CREEL : The government of President Fox will continue to work with his American counterpart until we can come to an agreement. We have proposed as a government five central points.
Those demands are what he calls the regularization of Mexican undocumented workers in the United States, a temporary worker program, an increase in the number of visas for Mexicans, better economic development of the border region and proper human rights for migrants.
RIDGE: The president of the United States believes that with the help of the Congress, with their working together to create a temporary worker program, that will further enhance security and facilitate the integration of the economies of two great economic partners.
WIAN: Secretary Ridge , saying in his opinion there must be strong enforcement provisions, including sanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens outside of the program. He says the failure to do that is the reason the last mass legalization in 1986 failed to control illegal immigration
DOBBS: Well, that's certainly a contributing factor, as you point out, Casey, but hardly the whole story. I take it the Homeland Security chief didn't mention perhaps controlling the nation's borders?
WIAN: No he really didn't say much about that at all. He had a couple references to it, but most of the discussion was focused on trade and ways to facilitate more cross-border traffic faster
(Excerpt) Read more at transcripts.cnn.com ...
WIAN: Absolutely. It's a very interesting point that you make. The Mexicans are demanding the U.S. government take actions, but it seems that the Mexicans are willing to offer very little in the way of action on their own, and the U.S. isn't demanding much of them on the other side.-snip----
CURRENT POLL:
Do you believe the Bush Administration should inform Mexico's interior secretary that there is no 'right' for Mexican citizens to work in the United States?
Yes 95% 4405 votes
No 5% 253 votes
Total: 4658 votes
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
Creel cited Arizona's Proposition 200, which prohibits illegal aliens from receiving state benefits, as incompatible with human rights.
He's joking right!!!
RIDGE: The president of the United States believes that with the help of the Congress, with their working together to create a temporary worker program, that will further enhance security and facilitate the integration of the economies of two great economic partners.
"facilitate the integration of the economies of two great economic partners"....
Mr. Ridge....do you truly believe Mexico is a great economic partner??? And facilitate the "integration" of the two economies....yes boil us down to Mexico's lowest common denominator!
See #4.
Ridge does not live in the real world.
LOL!!
Well, there you have it. Right from the horses mouth, so to speak. The "integration" of the USofA and Mexico.
AND Reagans policy WAS working, until the DUMS got control and stopped it's enforcement. Maybe if states pass a LAW, that any business that hires illegal aliens will lose their business license then we'll see some action.
Yeah, I think Ridge finally let the truth slip.
More on Prop 200:
Dobbs:
The most liberal federal appeals court in the country has rejected a request to block Arizona's Proposition 200, the proposition that's so offends the Mexican government. That law bars illegal aliens from voting or receiving public benefits.
The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund petitioned the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop enforcement of the law. A two-judge panel rejected the petition without ruling on or considering the constitutionality of the law. Proposition 200 in effect. The millions of illegal aliens in this country are adding to the tremendous strain on our health-care system. Emergency health care for illegals cost the United States more than $1 billion every year. In our special report, "Assault on the Middle Class," tonight, rapidly rising health-care costs have forced 45 million Americans to do without even basic health insurance.
Do you believe the Bush Administration should inform Mexico's interior secretary that there is no 'right' for Mexican citizens to work in the United States?
Yes 95% 4565 votes
No 5% 264 votes
Total: 4829 votes
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
I watched Lou Dobbs last night. Thanks for alerting me to that news item.
Selling America down the river, again.
Gompers, Samuel - (founder and pres. of AFL, an immigrant)
"America must not be overwhelmed. Every effort to enact immigration legislation must expect to meet a number of hostile forces and, in particular, two hostile forces of considerable strength. One of these is composed of corporation employers who desire to employ physical strength (broad backs) at the lowest possible wage and who prefer a rapidly revolving labor supply at low wages to a regular supply of American wage earners at fair wages. The other is composed of racial groups in the United States who oppose all restrictive legislation because they want the doors left open for an influx of their countrymen regardless of the menace to the people of their adopted country."
(Letter to Congress, March 19, 1924)
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http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
Do you believe the Bush Administration should inform Mexico's interior secretary that there is no 'right' for Mexican citizens to work in the United States?
Yes 94% 4616 votes
No 6% 275 votes
Total: 4891 votes
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I voted, too. Thanks. But a lot of good that seems to do. Our representatives seem hell-bent on eliminating our borders. I guess one day we will be part of a North American Union.
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