Posted on 03/28/2006 4:41:04 AM PST by billorites
Mexicans cheered the proposal approved yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee to legalize undocumented migrants and provide temporary work visas, and credited huge marches of migrants across the United States as the decisive factor behind the vote.
Mexican President Vicente Fox said the vote was the result of five years of work dating to the start of his presidential term in 2000, and puts Mexico one step closer toward the government’s goal of “legalization for everyone” who works in the United States.
“My recognition and respect for all the Hispanics and all the Mexicans who have made their voice heard,” Fox said. “We saw them turn out this weekend all across the United States, and that’s going to count for a lot as we move forward.”
Some Mexican media outlets were even more euphoric, predicting final approval for the committee bill as drafted, and suggesting the weekend demonstrations showed Mexico still holds some sway over former territories which it lost in the 1846-48 Mexican-American War.
“With all due respect to Uncle Sam, this shows that Los Angeles has never stopped being ours,” reporter Alberto Tinoco said on the Televisa television network’s nightly news broadcast, referring to a Saturday march in Los Angeles that drew an estimated 500,000, mainly Mexicans.
But U.S. ambassador Tony Garza warned Mexicans yesterday that the proposal still faces a long, difficult path through Congress.
“The debate will no doubt be heated and at times contentious,” Garza wrote in an open letter distributed in Mexico City. “The debate in the Senate is only one part of the lengthy process.”
The bill is designed to strengthen enforcement of U.S. borders, regulate the flow into the country of so-called guest workers and determine the legal future of the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally.
The bill would double the Border Patrol and authorizes a “virtual wall” of unmanned vehicles, cameras and sensors to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border. It also allows more visas for nurses and agriculture workers, and shelters humanitarian organizations from prosecution if they provide non-emergency assistance to illegal residents.
The most controversial provision would permit illegal aliens currently in the country to apply for citizenship without first having to return home, a process that would take at least six years.
Fox has been pushing for a migration accord that would grant some form of legal status to many of the estimated 6 million undocumented Mexicans in the United States. He is likely to bring up the topic when he meets with President Bush starting Thursday in Cancun.
Although a bill granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is unlikely to be approved by Congress, Fox remains hopeful that at least a guest-worker program will be put in place before he leaves office on Dec. 1.
If the United States approves such a program, it would bolster Fox’s image and aid the prospects of Felipe Calderon, presidential candidate for Fox’s National Action Party, or PAN, said George Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William & Mary.
“Fox is looking for some way to be remembered in history,” Grayson said.
Illegal migration has emerged as a significant issue in the campaigns of Mexico’s three major presidential hopefuls for the July 2 elections, and the United States has asked Mexico to do more to strengthen security along their common border.
My solution is for you to go down to Mexico where the real problem is and foment revolution there.
Welcome to the new world order of Globalism, where the desires and portfolios of the rich corporate business elite take precedent over the borders, the sovereignty,the independence and the freedom of any country or people.
Our leaders in both parties have just about finished their sellout of their country to the interests of their big business comrades and none moreso than that party which is at present in power.
All aboard! :)
Have you noticed that our little troll is following a by-formula routine for disrupting a discussion?
He demands "a specific plan" -- and then, when one is given, he doesn't debate its points, he merely insults the poster with a below-the-belt one-liner, dismisses his argument, and repeats his demand for "a specific plan."
This sort of crap was de rigueur for Usenet trolls in The Olden Days. Sad to see it taking root here, too.
Well maybe the INS, now called ICE, is understaffed because they are scurrying around trying to catch illegals who are encouraged by our media, our politicians and their own preidente to act as criminals and cross the border illegaly. The system isn't necessarily broken, it's just overwhelmed since the laws aren't enforced anyway.
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He demands "a specific plan" -- and then, when one is given, he doesn't debate its points, he merely insults the poster with a below-the-belt one-liner, dismisses his argument, and repeats his demand for "a specific plan."
Must have been trained by a Politician.LOL
You keep repeating this over and over as if it is some sort of argument. The answer is simple: send them home.
Don't tell me it can't be done. I am sure the drivers of the first skiploaders that pulled up to the WTC remains after 9/11 saw a mountain that "couldn't be cleaned up."
But the frst bucket was filled. And thus the task was begun. After a lot of time and effort, eventually the entire thing was cleared out.
That is how yo do ANY difficult task. It starts with a will, then it gets executed, no MATTER HOW HARD.
What happens when a more left leaning government friendly toward Chavez takes control in Mexico. We will then have an army of subversives within our borders. This is the "Trojan Horse" that will destroy this country.
Cut off the benefits and hope they return home. OK. That's a plan. It was not so difficult, was it. Unfortunately, using the expression "DUH" is degrading [to you].
Strange way to admit you have no proposed solution.
That labor aint cheap. At the tune of $55K per unit in welfare/overhead.
Your screen name is fitting.
As usual, you can't argue.
You just toss ad hominems.
What are the implementing instructions for such a grandiose scheme? Ask nicely? Cattleprods?
We did it for MANY MANY years. It used to be that the INS had green buses that would show up at employers and ask for their green cards.
Those without went home.
It ain't that tough. Your mind is just too simple to wrap itself around doing the right thing.
There are hundred of thousands of crimes happening. DAILY! That is too many to actually COMBAT.
Your way of doing nothing is clearly the proper way to proceed.
Just try to take it, buddy. Americans will not be pushed much further.
As long as we have Immigration Quislings like Dane and verity, these alien invaders have nothing to fear.
This is.. this makes me want to..
I don't have the words.
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