Posted on 06/01/2007 10:31:41 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
Mexico City
NO nation is as involved in United States immigration as Mexico, and no government’s cooperation will be as necessary as Mexico’s if immigration reform is to succeed.
Fortunately, most of the reform proposals represent a very good deal for Mexico, however questionable they might appear to the Latino community in the United States. The current Senate package greatly resembles what President Vicente Fox and I proposed back in 2001, in meetings with President Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
First, the Senate plan would legalize almost all of the roughly six million Mexicans in the United States today without papers. This will allow them to get better wages and working conditions, to become eligible for mortgages and driver’s licenses, to travel back home and to have an immensely better everyday life.
Yes, the road to citizenship is a long one — up to 13 years — but that is essentially an American issue. We Mexicans cannot encourage or discourage our fellow countrymen from seeking naturalization.
Second, the bill provides for a guest worker program that will include several hundred thousand Mexicans: exactly what we always wanted. The requirement that they return home for a year after working across the border for two, while cumbersome and perhaps unenforceable, would actually help Mexico. It would ensure the continued flow of money back to workers’ families here; and the returning workers would bring the skills they acquire in the United States to demonstrate to others and use to start businesses here.
And as for complaints that these guest workers could not take their families with them, the roughly 75,000 Mexicans who legally emigrate to the north every year can’t do so either.
There are three Mexican objections to the bill as it stands.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
See? I'll bet a lot of us thought this was a one-way street, and a lot of the article pretty much confirms that. But after seeing how how great this deal is for Mexico, it turns out that there is something good in it for the United States too. Probably.
No, Chilango’s
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His remarks are not all that different from Kennedy, McCain, Graham, and the rest of the Senate traitors.
Thanks, Whore-hay, for helping us to make our point. When we finally invade Mexico as part of cleaning your corrupt government up, we'll shoot you last.
Nothing quite like a false premise to get you going in the morning.
And why should we care about what the government of Mexico thinks of our immigration policy?
What’s good for Mexico?
Ha, Ha, Ha!
How bout Mexico getting all the land back taken in the Mexican American war?
Now that would include Los Angeles.
/Sarc.
p.s. Have you checked with La Raza lately?
Huh?
With a load of Toro-Caca.
Apparently the NY Times does.
“Do we get to pick which six?”
No, that would be racist.
Basically this says... we broke your stupid laws over and over again for 3 decades and now we got what we set out to get. We* win.
*Mexico
“He’s not really from Tijuana, I just made that part up. All I know is he is not from America and he doesn’t get a vote on this.”
We should all call the mexican capital and tell them to stop messing in our affairs.
Why don’t we just move the White House and Senate to Mexico City. The marching orders given to our elected officials by their elected officials won’t have to travel as far.
Are there any DC politicians left that haven’t completely surrendered to some other nation?
Deal Breaker? With who? You? HAHAHAHAHA!
Jorge, is your sombrero on too tight?
So I have noticed!
Mexican Consulates Offer Healthcare Help
A program called Ventanillas de Salud, or Health Windows, aims to provide Mexican immigrants with basic health information, cholesterol checks and other preventive tests. It also makes referrals to U.S. hospitals, health centers and government programs where patients can get care without fear of being turned over to immigration authorities.
SNIP
Health services to illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County cost the Medi-Cal program nearly $440 million in 2005, according to the California Department of Health Services. Statewide, that number was more than $1.1 billion last year.
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Link to the printer-friendly article.
Link to the thread on FR.
“It would ensure the continued flow of money back to workers’ families here; and the returning workers would bring the skills they acquire in the United States to demonstrate to others and use to start businesses here.”
Continued flow of money back to Mexico....
Demonstrate skills learned here to start businesses there..
It blows my mind... How long has Mexico been a nation??
Amid all the sound and fury, I stand ready to be the first to proclaim that the status quo was the objective and will be proved so when all the smoke clears and the yelling stops.
Not one of the major players wants to lose what he has if he can’t gain what another has.
A standoff plays as well as any so-called victory.
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