Posted on 05/14/2005 8:21:13 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox called recent U.S. measures to stem illegal immigration a step back for bilateral relations on Friday and said Mexican migrants do jobs "that not even blacks want to do."
In comments likely to raise the temperature of the immigration debate, Fox defended the role of undocumented Mexican workers in the United States to a group of Texas business people meeting in Mexico.
"There is no doubt that Mexicans, filled with dignity, willingness and ability to work are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States," he said in a speech broadcast in part on local radio and reported on newspaper web sites.
Fox said recent, tougher measures against immigrants do not represent "the road we should be building between friends and partners."
Mexico has been seeking an accord with Washington for years to make it easier for millions of illegal Mexican immigrants to live and work in the United States. The country expects to repatriate this year more than 250,000 foreigners, mostly Central Americans headed for the U.S. border.
Mexican hopes were raised early last year when President Bush proposed a temporary worker program but it has become bogged down in Congress.
A key partner in U.S. border security, Mexico is upset at new U.S. controls on foreign-born people, including tougher rules to obtain drivers' licenses.
Congressional Republicans attached the immigration changes to legislation providing $82 billion in emergency funds for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush is expected to sign the legislation into law soon.
The law, approved unanimously by the Senate on Tuesday, waives environmental rules to allow the extension of a fence on the border between California and Mexico to stop illegal immigrants. Mexico calls the measure "overly extreme."
But Fox said he was encouraged by a bill put forward on Thursday by Sens. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, to allow some of the estimated 10 to 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to get legal jobs and eventual citizenship.
"I hope President Bush will support and push the initiative, as he has publicly agreed. I have to take his word and hope he delivers," Fox said.
WHAT DOES VICENTE FOX HAVE TO DO WITH OUR IMMIGRATION POLICY?
(Sorry for the yelling but this stuff drives me NUTS)
If we would quit using the brute force of the federal government to take money from people that work to give to people who won't work, those "jobs Americans won't do" would get a whole lot more popular.
The chief parasite speaks.
You have no future in politics....
Yeah but like Sean Hannity says he sounds like a great American,
(This explained a lot to me..)
Conclusions of the U.S.-Mexico Migration Panel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1402132/posts
Fox is the general of an invading army. His government actively encourages and facilitates the illegal alien invasion of the US and, in an alternate reality would suffer severe consequences from the US.
Fox protects his southern borders from central Americans even poorer then his own populace. And he knows he hasn't enopugh employment to keep his uneducated workers working or fed.
If mexican illegals were kicked out of the U.S. his country would go absolutely insane in a minute.
I don't understand Spanish but I know people that do. They tell me I would be surprised of the amount of racism in Mexican newspapers when it comes to blacks. So it doesn't shock me to hear Vicente Fox say something like this.
Hey Foxie, then why don't you promote the concept of coming in legally? What a hypocrite.
One would have to ask "Why would V. Fox even care about his people being allowed to break the law in the US". There can be only one conclusion. He is breaking the law also somehow. Maybe selling border crossing to spies or terrorists as an example.
Friends don't let friends break immigration laws.
I'd like to associate myself with your remarks regarding how to popularize "jobs Americans won't do."
Fox is Mexico's numero uno enemy. All he does when he makes comments like this is pi$$ off the American people. He is not helping his countrymen with his comments.
Say what?
Gee ... good thing this here Fox guy is El Presidente of a third world banana republic, or else he might get hisself in trouble for being a racist.
Kinda remindful of Ross Perot and his "you people" blunder...
Mexican migrants do jobs "that not even blacks want to do."
Y'know, being a "good neighbor" is all well and good, but when your neighbor keeps sending people into your house to do as the please, you get them out. As far as the racist remarks, Fox is just trying to foment controversy (although he's probably a racist anyway).
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