Posted on 03/01/2006 6:43:50 PM PST by AZRepublican
ABOARD THE PRESIDENTE JUAREZ - Flying high above the Yucatan peninsula, Mexican President Vicente Fox leaned forward and pointed a finger to make this point: In a few years, he said, the United States may be begging Mexico for the very workers it's now trying to keep out by building a wall along the border.
With the looming retirement from the work force of the U.S. baby boom generation, and with Mexico's population growth-rate declining, immigration from Mexico will slow just as demand for workers in the United States will be growing, he told Knight Ridder in an interview aboard his presidential jet.
"I am absolutely convinced that by 2010, the United States will have a great demand for workers and laborers to sustain its economy and to sustain its population of retirees and pensioners," the president said. "And in that very year, Mexico will need its young people to help its own economy and to attend to its own retirees."
When Fox took office in 2000, he vowed to make an immigration accord with the United States a top priority, and he thought he had a likely partner in President Bush, who took office less than two months later. But the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks derailed Bush's plans for an immigration accord as the United States adopted a tough, national-security view of all border issues.
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Legal ones who apply for a temporay job and visa, fine.
Those that want to illegally come in and access everything they don't have at home at our expense? NO!
Fox anticipates excessively. The US has the rest of the world from which to pick and choose.
It's the same-old same-old. Mike Royko was right. The only thing Mexico excelled in was making Tequila.
Sorry Vincenty, the US will never beg for your criminals.
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But he didn't say that Mexico will be clamoring for its own workers because he knows he's a parasite without a future.
The fem in Nazi's have promoted aborting so many lives of the next generation.
The US won't have any trouble attracting immigrants as long as there is a huge salary differential. Funny how that works.
Just looked at the building being built across from my shop, I don't think there's a single anglo working there. Whatever happened to American construction workers? Where did they all go?
Aren't so called "African American's" always complaining about being unemployed? Why are all construction workers now from South of the border?
No problamo Vicente. Considering the birth rate among the illegal Mexican aliens you have sent to the USA, we will have plenty of Mexicans for our own needs , and may even be able to provide peons to Mexico within ten years.
I don't even know if it's legal or illegal, it's assimilation and culture. It's values. Western-European-Anglo-American culture, values, ethics and knowledge are the best, fairest, freest and most productive in the world. Ever. Period.
With the future flight of Europeans escaping their Moslem-dominated countries, I don't think we'll need the Mexicans, Senor Fox.
A ping to a previous topic that we have discussed.
There are plenty of east asians who will work as well as the mexicans.
He's right you know: one day there'll be complaints that the Rio Grande is getting too deep in places, and some wetbacks are needed for fill.
I have no problem with Mexicans coming here, I just want them to do it legally, and learn the language.
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