Mexico looks to assure Americans with new immigration campaign

Charlotte Observer ^ | March 26, 2006 | HUGH DELLIOS

[FairOpinion]

I hope Mexico isn't just doing something "to convince Americans" but will actually work on creating a better economic climate in Mexico and stop encouraging illegal immmigration to the US.

[HiJinx]

I'm From Missouri (Show Me) Ping!

[xcamel]

Or not...

[SandRat]

LESS TALK el ZORRO and more ACTION!!!

[rolling_stone]

this is funny....what have they been waiting for the last 30 years? Their leaders seem to care as much (little)about their people as ours do about us...

[stopem]

If you beleive that one....well you know the rest.

[Serenissima Venezia]

We have to speak out loud and clear that there is another side to the story - by the people who can actually vote in this country. The Senate Judiciary Committee will meet on Tuesday (I think) to make a mockery of their constituents' desires and of the Sensenbrenner bill waiting for them.

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[Lobbyist]

I'm from Missouri also.

[afz400]

If they're so serious about helping us out, then why aren't the Mexicans asking their citizens who are in America illegally to "please come home we want you back"?

[isthisnickcool]

Mexico can pay me back for all the extra tax I've had to pay in Texas to pay for the bums that have left their country.

[spectre]

Mexico sits on an ocean of oil with more yet to be discovered.

Their tourism industry generates billions a year. All that money is looted by less than 5% of the population (Elites, and politicians).

Nothing will change. You know why? They don't have to.

[Ladycalif]

[Lobbyist]

The Mexican government cannot be trusted.

[Isabelle]

undocumented workers

It's ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!!If you can't trust the Mexican government to get that name right---why trust them to do anything else---corrupt bunch of idiots!

[HiJinx]

I'm from Missouri also.

Literally? Or, as in, "Show me"? A whole bunch of us are neither ready nor willing to believe what we're being told by the folks in DC and Mexico City.

[marron]

I won't trust anyone on immigration reform until the border is secure. Anyone who starts with the assumption that it can't be done, can't be trusted on immigration reform.

Secure the border, and then we'll talk.

As for Mexico, they don't open their borders to Honduran immigrants, they aren't looking to the miracle of "cheap Honduran labor" to kick start their economy, so I see no reason to listen to their prescriptions for us.

Mexico is one of the great oil producers in the world. It is a manufacturing powerhouse, and it sells most of its goods for dollars. Mexico should not be a poor country.

Its poverty is a direct result of lawlessness, a lack of clear, enforceable law, a lack of personal security, a lack of judicial clarity. Contrary to popular reasoning, poverty does not cause crime, rather crime causes poverty. The lack of legal clarity, the lack of personal security, the lack of clear property rights, makes it difficult to invest and protect your investment. Solve that, and Mexico will become a labor importer, rather than an exporter of its people.

[just deserts]

If they're so serious about helping us out, then why aren't the Mexicans asking their citizens who are in America illegally to "please come home we want you back"?

Because they're too busy asking their citizens to "please send your MONEY back".

[TomGuy]

Even this CBS poll is showing how Americans feel:

Do You Support A Congressional Bill That Would Make Illegal Immigrants Felons?

Yes 69%
No 31%

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_084102644.html

[rrrod]

The Mexican guv is lying thru their teeth!

[Lobbyist]

Literally