Posted on 03/30/2006 6:13:19 PM PST by SandRat
BISBEE As Congress has taken up the issue of immigration reform, the Mexican government of President Vicente Fox has been anything but a disinterested bystander.
When the House of Representatives approved a bill in December that would have built 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border and made it a felony to reside illegally in the U.S., Fox denounced the measure as shameful. His foreign minister, Luis Ernesto Derbez, went further and called it stupid and underhanded.
After thousands of marchers took to the streets of U.S. cities last week to protest the pending immigration legislation, Foxs spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, said the demonstrations showed the imminent need for an immigration accord that meets the interests of both the United States and Mexico.
And when the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill Monday that offered both a guest-worker program and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented residents, Aguilar said the bill was headed in the right direction, but from Mexicos point of view it doesnt resolve the entire problem.
Such statements have so angered U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth, a Republican from Arizonas Fifth Congressional District, he wrote a letter to President Bush asking him to tell Fox and Derbez to butt out of U.S. internal affairs when they meet this week in Cancun.
I respectfully request that you publicly make it clear to both men that their clumsy, over-the-top rhetoric about internal U.S. political matters pertaining to our border security is unwarranted and unacceptable, he wrote.
According to George Grayson, a professor of government and Mexico expert at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., Hayworth has a point at least in asking Mexico to practice what it preaches.
The Mexicans have elevated hypocrisy from an art form to an exact science, he said.
Mexico has long been sensitive to foreign intervention in its domestic matters. In fact, Mexican law on the matter is so strict that foreign nationals can be detained and deported for taking part in a political rally.
This week, after Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez demanded that his image be removed from ad spots placed by Foxs conservative National Action Party that tried to tie him to leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the federal election agency opened an investigation into whether Chavez had broken Mexicos law against foreign interference in elections.
And when U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza last year criticized Mexicos ability to control drug-related violence in the countrys northern border region, Fox lashed out, saying, Mexicos government cannot permit any foreign government to judge or express itself regarding policy actions undertaken to deal with its problems.
Grayson said such statements make Foxs comments on U.S. immigration law untenable.
Hayworth would like Bush to convey a similar message directly to Fox and Derbez.
Please let them know that they should henceforth refrain from making these kinds of reckless remarks, he wrote, and that they should stop meddling in our internal political affairs.
We can not allow them into our schools and universities.
We can eliminate the onerous mandates on businesses hiring legal migrant workers.
Plus all titles to real estate held by illegals are forfeited. And no dual citizenship or voting in Mexican elections.
At any rate to continue this discussion, we could more easily secure our borders if most of North America was within the United States (forget New France). Yes the border towns are full of criminals. We would be much better off if we could prosecute the corrupt mexican police under US law. That is a major problem that not even the Mexico government can solve.
Vicente and Jorge should be posing next to the ruins of trashed apartment complex.
"---10 points---point 4 auto insurance---"
they do that now in a number of states to get the plates--then let the policy lapse so when they have an accident they just run off and leave the cars---these people have no character or responsibility to this country---(something like a number of our present day American citizens)---that is why so many seem to "feel their pain" and oppose sending them back where they came from
Bush has lost all my support and I've lost all respect for him because he refuses to do anything constructive about the immigration problem and our borders.
This Chichen-Itza photo sums up our situation very well. Our American (and now multinational) elites travel and communicate globally, profiting and expanding their opportunities while forgetting their duty to the country that made it all possible. They're selling us out, pure and simple.
It's a good day to read the Declaration of Independence again.
$6500 x 14MM illegals comes out to $109B, not $9T.
However, the structure of your idea is good.
It's heartening to see that there are still some American patriots in the leadership. Not many, but a few. Hayworth, Tancredo and others in congress standing against this sellout of American sovereignty.
We can also charge the criminal employers under the RICO law and seize the personal assets of the board, the officers, and the executives. Under RICO the government doesnt even have to wait until they are convicted. They can get a forfeiture order as soon as the defendant is indicted.
Impoverish one group of corporate big shots and the other criminals will be firing illegal aliens so fast heads will spin. Then station INS agents at all schools, hospitals, welfare offices, etc., and the illegal aliens will go back where they belong.
One 55 gal barrel for each illegal alien crossing will be a good start!
$91B. Still, mucho dinero.
"then let the policy lapse so when they have an accident they just run off and leave the cars."
That's why gas pumps will require gas i.d. cards with a photo, prepaid. so when they go inside to get their hotdog or chiquito, they have to present it to get gas. Oh I can get clever if given enough time.
"Weve got vays of makin you legal."
It's the only sensible alternative the illegal aliens would have.
It was great!
And make them pay a hefty deposit before receiving any health care at any clinic or hospital ... they are bankrupting many hospitals in border states .. crossing the border to deliver their children at our expense so they will have children who are citizens... what crazy law is that -- it needs to be repealed.
Yes, perhaps after a multitude of crimes (other than being illegal) that they will commit here on our soil.
Mexico Offers Help in Exchange for Visas
March 27, 2006
The Mexican government placed a full-page advertisement [Allyn & Co., a U.S. public relations firm placed the ads for the Mexican government] in major U.S. newspapers last week that said Mexican efforts to stop illegal emigration into the U.S. would be contingent on the United States' providing a "sufficient number of appropriate visas" to Mexican nationals who now enter the U.S. illegally.
"If a guest country offers a sufficient number of appropriate visas to cover the largest possible number of workers and their families, who currently cross the border without document because of the impossibility of obtaining them, Mexico should be responsible for guaranteeing that each person who decides to leave does so following legal channels."
Mexican Embassy Communications Director Rafael Laveaga declined to say what the Mexican government would do about illegal emigration if the U.S did not supply "sufficient" visas.
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LMAO! Yes we can wish.
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