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.
It's Not Xenophobia, It's Xenonausea--It is not Xenophobia. It is Xenonausea. People are sick of having the whole world shoved down their throats at once and being told it tastes like ice cream. They are sick of every street corner and parking lot being filled with criminal aliens waiting to work off the books and outside the laws that are applied so enthusiastically to actual Americans. They are sick of pressing “1” for English. They are sick of being at war with foreign terrorists and simultaneously being economically and demographically bound more tightly to the nations producing these terrorists. They are sick of being told that the world is global or flat or smaller or at their doorstep or all coming for dinner on Tuesday
As Rush said yesterday, this is the Mexican way of legislating in the streets. We don need no steekeen representatives in DC if the laws are going to be made by how many peons are howling in the middle of the freeways of the USA. This is exactly what the Founders warned against when they established a REPUBLIC instead of a democracy. Democracy leads to mob rule. Look at Venezuela today. That may be your house the mob's leader will be kicking you out of to give to "his people."
I asked for rational, not visceral.
No you are disingenuous..you know the answers have been posted time and again.,.to repeat you just don't like the answers presented.
Restate the answers, smart ass.
Here's a question - Why is it called the Senate Judiciary Committee if they don't respect our nation of LAWS anymore than the illegals??
Next, I can't help but leap on Teddy Kennedy's (The "hero" of Chappaquiddick) remarks about these (illegals) being our neighbors, and the people who go to church with us and run the stores and blah, blah, blah. We know what he's been drinking but, if he really believes that BS, why not just throw open the gates of the prisons and let those folks out, too? After all, before they were thrown in prison, they were our neighbors and the people who went to church with us . . . . . . .
What's the difference between one lawbreaker and another?
What does it say on the statue of liberty? I believe it says, give me your poor, your tired, and hungry.
We ned to just make Mexico a state and be done with it.
All I can say is the politics is the art of the possible.
I wonder if there are enough Americans to do the work. If there are, they should be calling 866-347-2423 to report employers who hire illegals instead of them.
Yes - it's rather simple.
1) Build a wall - stop any further illegal immigration.
2) Any time an illegal immigrant is stopped by the police, or has any dealings with government officials and is found to be here illegally - send them back home.
Will it be acceptable? To most Americans, yes - to the illegal immigrants, no.
And too many choose to ignore the fact that there may not be a universally acceptable solution to the disposition of 12 million illegals.
See # 36.
>>>>"Rational ideas anyone?"<<<<
Fair Tax is a start, then Military at our Borders.
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What does it say on the statue of liberty? I believe it says, give me your poor, your tired, and hungry.
Liberty is not free, never has been. It comes with sacrifice and regulation. Only then can a stanger from a foreign land become a citizen of our republic. BTW; Fox can kiss my ASS!
Build a serious wall. (Would cost less than a year of the health care we give them.)
Allow any LEO to arrest illegals.
Sieze all assets, send them back with just the clothes on their back.
Dump them in Mexico (even if they are OTM, let Fox take care of the problem, see how he likes it.)
Let Sheriff Joe handle the temporary housing.
Liberal whine - But that would be too hard - /Liberal whine off.
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