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 governments cooperation will be as necessary as Mexicos 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 drivers 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 cant do so either.
There are three Mexican objections to the bill as it stands.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Jorge G. Castaneda (D-Mexico City)
There are three Mexican objections to the bill as it stands........Only three?...Get in line!
“Why not just make him a US Congressman while we’re at it.”
You mean ours aren’t Mexican Congressmen?
Bridge for sale!
There are three Mexican objections to the bill as it stands.
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No REAL AMERICAN gives a flying F*** what Mexico thinks of OUR legislation. Send all of them back home where they belong and build the DOUBLE fence. And use plenty of constantina wire too....
What do Mexicans call their white elites, “blancos?”
Just six million? What's all the fuss about?
eligible??? They already get these whether they are eligible or not.
...several hundred thousand Mexicans: exactly what we always wanted.
Since when did we "always want" them?
Six million? I've already heard the number 12 or 20 bantied about. Does this mean we have his royal permission to issue only six million Z-Visas? Do we get to pick which six?
After reading the whole article, it appears that the main complaint is not enough guest worker will be allowed. This fellow will only be happy with no caps on any type of entry (open borders).
PING=4 Later
Here are Rep. Jorge Castaneda’s (D-Tijuana), 3 objections to the bill currently in the legislature of a country that he is not a citizen of. Apparently he thinks he can threaten to veto it if he doesn’t like it...............
“First, it has unduly harsh enforcement provisions at the border and the workplace, which will undoubtedly generate abuses and mistreatment. Still, if every Mexican in the United States who arrived before Jan. 1, 2007, is legalized, enforcement inside the United States, including discriminatory raids, will become redundant. And if nearly everyone who wants to go north can obtain a guest-worker visa, there will be no need to cross illegally and face rough treatment at the border.
A second objectionable feature is the steep fines and fees in the Senate bill: up to $5,000. While this is not cheap, its also not much more than the coyote charges to smuggle a migrant across the border.
The last objection is more substantive; it is, in fact, a potential deal breaker. The Senate voted last week to cut the number of guest worker slots to 200,000 from 400,000. The earlier figure would have allowed roughly the same number of workers who now cross illegally to obtain guest status. But if the final law has too few slots, it will not end illegal immigration, but simply perpetuate the status quo.”
Thanks for the imput Jorge. From an American standpoint, your entire country is the continental equivalent of a hemorrhoid.
The guy who’s saying “we” is a Mexican.
It really gets pathetic doesn’t it when a third world hack politico from a cesspool like Tijuana thinks he can put two thoughts together and anyone will even care?
I guess Mexico is now unofficially the 51st state and this guy thinks he is one of the two Senators in the new delegation.
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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.
That’s o.k....I can just fill in the blank for any Mexican town.
I like your ideas, would you run for President?
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