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 ...
As I recall, Castañeda put it this way to U.S. Hispanic activists: “You know the age-old saying about how to eat an elephant. You do it a bite at a time.” Yummy. Thanks, gringos.
I am the first one to laugh at conspiracy theories and the whackos who come up with them. So if anyone here thinks what I’m about to say is nothing but a nutty conspiracy theory please feel free to slap me around and tell me so for my own good, but.....
I am really starting to think that our government deliberately doesn’t secure the border or enforce immigration laws. The Big Business WSJ Republicans (and I’m in their camp most of the time) want the cheap labor.
The Republican Congress passed the fence bill in October of 2006 so they can go back to their constituents and say that we were tough on illegal immigration before the election. Then turned around and didn’t supply the funds to build the entire thing.
You are right Jorge, this is a BAD law.
Let’s just pattern our immigration laws on Mexico’s and we will be much better off!
Seriously! They are RUTHLESS.
They stop people at the border, no excuses.
They track people with visas and make them leave on time.
AND they instantly deport any visitors who try to meddle in their political affairs.
I can think of a million or two ‘protestors’ I would like to subject to that kind of treatment.
Mine the border.
Make parts of it look like the Berlin Wall.
Jorge G. Castaneda is a recycled leftist-communist who saw the light, or not, when Fox was elected, quickly recreated himself and hooked himself to Fox’s wagon. He is the author of a book glorifying Che Guevarra. Back in the late 70s, early 80s, he was one of the PRI-Mexican communists who was baying at the moon about any attempt to introduce free market reforms in Mexico’s economy. He is one of the Mexican elites who preached socialism to Mexicans for 20 years, so now they are here demanding what he and his party promised but couldn’t deliver years ago. His goal in life has been to set up a welfare state, but Mexico has never had the resources. So he is encouraging Mexicans to come here, thinking we do have the resources and will be dumb enough to turn them over to the likes of him. His close ally in this campaign is Senator Kennedy. He has all the credibility of Hugo Chavez, without the charisma.
Let me fix that....
Jorge G. Castanada (D-or-R Mexico City)
FMCDH(BITS)
WTH? Proposing what they want from ourcountry?! Boy, do I ever feel stupid thinking my vote counted, here are four people, trading away MY(family) country and MY future like baseball cards. I spit on the four of them, and everyone else who is selling out America.
LOL That's true. They 'care' about all things liberal.
........."they" 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.......... and you sucker Americans will pay for all of it(there fixed it)
Money quote; nothing has changed, it's just a tad later than expected.
Beginning? Eric, where you been?
Regards.
It looks to me like the traitors in our government work for Mexico these days. They ALL need to be tried for TREASON, and punished according to their crimes! Starting with elPresidente Jorge Boosh and then right on down the line.
Why not make him president?
They need to add to the bill, if an illegal wants an American citizen’s house, the owner has 24 hrs to vacate the premises.
Who the hell cares? I know Americans would like Mexicans to shut the hell up, since they have no real say in this matter. Better yet, how about making that country less of a third world dump so its citizens don't feel the need to break our laws.
Never good when you start out with a humongous bald-faced lie.
Thanks for the background on the stooge, Jorge Castaneda.
It certainly helps, never would we get this from the Slime Times, I curse the NY Times daily....
Thanks for the background on the stooge, Jorge Castaneda.
It certainly helps, never would we get this from the Slime Times, I curse the NY Times daily....
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