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.
The poor, the tired, the hungry can enter the U.S. LEGALLY. In accordance with our immigration laws.
They are welcome if they want to obey our laws. Entering illegally is NOT obeying our laws!
yanno, if they treated illegals the way they want to treat guns, the guest worker program would be good. get them all to fill out registration, then use registration to track them all down for arrest and deportation.
The illegal aliens and the criminals who hire them and the criminals who harbor them are getting out in the street making their desires known. It is way past time those of us who support the rule of law and secure borders did the same.
Join Veterans for Secure Borders, The Minuteman Project, Latino Americans for Immigration Reform, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, and other groups protesting amnesty for these criminals, and demanding the government protect our borders.
http://www.areckoning.com/
FReepers should be at this rally in strength. Saturday, May 6, in Crawford, TX.
I don't think Emma Lazarus' poem rises to the level
of statute. We do not have to let them in.
No, of course not, but it does illustrate a difference in sentiment.
Oh, really? Christopher Hitchens has been waiting since 9/11 and the process is still not complete. That part of the immigration system is just as broken as the rest. The INS was understaffed, technologically backward and way out of date.
Saddly these marches are extremely precise in their statement that they will let Mexico coopt them but not the US coopt them to overthrow Mexican corruption...
THe illegal issue is bad enough, but actual treasonous coopting like this is beyond the pale.
This Christopher Hitchens?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens
Please explain what you mean. I'm listening.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
So was Mao, and Lenin, and Marx, and...
WHY is "our" country concerning itself with this avaricious dictator's quest for "legacy" -- at OUR expense?
What the hell has happened to OUR country?
We are looking after the best interest of EVERYONE except for ourselves -- and I assure you, NO ONE ELSE is looking after our interests!
That is tantamount to a declartion of war, n'est ce pas? ("Pardon my French.")
With apologies to Von Clausewitz, what we are observing is nothing but the continuation of terrorism by other means.
To: JudgemAllAs 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."
24 posted on 03/28/2006 8:04:12 AM EST by kittymyribTo: JudgemAllThe Gov't is scared. Plain and simple. How the hell could well over half a million people organize all across the country... and no one knew about it until the news reports started coming in? Just think if the one in LA turned violent. LA would certainly belong to Mexico with in a week!! We've painted ourselves into a corner.
And call me cynical, but I cannot shake the suspicion that the events transpiring this very moment in France are more than mere "coincidence."
I would not be at all shocked to find the finger of George Soros and his ilk involved in stirring up the riots in both countries. I fear the nation-breakers have sensed that the time is ripe to play their hand -- and our "courageous leaders" are demonstrating via their cowardice and concession to the demands of the rioters that they are correct in that assessment.
God have mercy on us, and on our children...
Sorry, I forgot to include you in the pingline for the post above.
Fine, they're yours. Knock yerself out.
Where would you like them delivered?
Oh, and please take measures to ensure that they stay on your property, OK?
PS: I must have slept through the part of the Constitutional Convention when they decided that a rhyme written by a socialist, attached to a statue, would have the same force of law as the Constitution of the United States of America.
My thinking is along these same lines. Seal the border, step one of any reasonable plan. Step two, remove the economic advantage the illegal worker has. I am sure the illegal problem differs depending on where you live. In the midwest, the illegals are taking work for half the pay because they are being paid in cash and don't get half their pay confiscated. Contributing to this is the graduated income tax code. Like you, I think MANY illegals would self-deport if we implemented an NRST.
Guest worker plans and making illegals felons neither one address to root cause.
When you have tens of millions of "motor-voter"-empowered illegal aliens voting, the game is rigged, bigtime.
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