Posted on 03/30/2006 8:39:28 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
Mexican President Vicente Fox is defending earlier comments where he insisted that the U.S. will soon be "begging" Mexico to send workers to alleviate a coming U.S. labor shortage.
"I dare say that in 10 years, the U.S. will be begging, will be pleading with Mexico to send it workers," said Fox, who meets with President Bush in Cancun today to discuss what he calls the "migration" problem.
In his March 3 remarks to the BBC, Fox warned that the U.S. had better take advantage of the Mexican labor pool while it has the chance, because when America starts begging for Mexican workers, "Mexico won't do it because it will have its people employed [here at home]."
In an interview Wednesday night, Fox said he stood by his comments.
"Let's put it this way," he told MSNBC's Rita Cosby. "[The] U.S. economy will need additional labor than what they have, because population growth in United States is not growing."
Fox said he foresaw the day when his country's excess labor pool would dry up.
"Mexico will level off it's population by year 2030," he explained. "Mexico will never pass 130 - 135 million people and then it will level-off so we won't have that kind of energy that youth, but more so, we will need them here in Mexico to sustain our retirement, pension families which will be many."
For the time being, however, the Mexican leader said he remained opposed to U.S. proposals that would crack down on workers who leave Mexico and enter the U.S. illegally.
Asked about U.S. plans to build a border fence, Fox told Cosby: "I don't think building a wall or try to take that kind of measure will help the issue. I think we both have the capacity . . . give migration a legal form, an ordered flow and a full respect to human rights of everybody."
He also opposes plans to station the U.S. military along the Mexican border, saying:
"No, it's not the way to solve it."
Instead he credited illegal Mexican shoppers with keeping malls along the border in business.
"Right there in the border, there is one million persons, people crossing every day . . . The way they cross to consume on the U.S. side, this incredible amount of big shopping centers in the border on the U.S. side, it's Mexican consumption makes them successful."
"he thinks he can do the same to us"
Well, uh, with Pres Bushs' help he can and will.
Exactly, right now Costa Rica is working on laws to keep out illegal Nicaraguans, who are doing the exact same thing to their country as illegals are doing here...crime, social services, lowered wages, etc...Personally If we have guest workers, I'd prefer Costa Ricans over Mexicans, at least they can speak Castillian Spanish and most want to return home and don't dream of a reconquista...
Okay. Sorry.
Fox sounds like a fatally overconfident d*ckhead.
OTOH, he has known how to play our feckless politicos
for years, so why shouldn'/t his rhetoric continue to
work? Everyone is increasingly fonder of quoting demographics, falling or rising birth rates, retirement ages,etc. as being the deciding factors in how policy should be formulated. It makes everything seem more, uh,
"scientific".
"guest worker" program.......
he hadn't been that wasted since the time he promised 6% annual growth in the Mexican economy throughout his term
they do need a visa, one called a Border Crossing Card. It allows them to visit areas within 25 miles of the border, and they can stay in that area for 30 days in a row before they have to go back to Mexico. If they pay $6, they get a permit which allows them to travel nationwide and stay for several months. It allows for unlimited crossing privileges, and has a 10-year duration. This is the card that most "legal" (those who crossed legally, but overstayed) illegals have, and 11 million of them have been issued over the last 10 years to Mexicans.
Right, working age people with seventh grade educations. A lot of good that's going to do!
Doesn't the sheer gall of these people blow you away? Between the protests here and the stuff that comes out of that idiots mouth, its mindboggling!!! Their total lack of class is just another reason they don't belong here.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.