Posted on 08/06/2009 10:19:31 AM PDT by neverdem
A senior Mexican official spoke with reporters today, in advance of the North American Leaders summit this weekend. The official, speaking on background, explain that this summit is basically laying the ground work for future endeavors, and advised not expect to see any obvious deliverables – that developing the relationship is essentially the goal.
“No two countries are more important to each other’s security, prosperity, and well being than these two countries – simply by virtue of having a 2,000 mile border,” the official said.
President Obama will meet with President Filipe Calderon and Prime Minister Harper – in bi-lats and a tri-lat. The leaders will focus on four key areas.
1. Economic Recovery in North America The leaders will focus on the auto industry, which affects all three nations. They will also discuss the issue of balancing security concerns along the border, with trade concerns – specifically the keeping trucks flowing in and out of Mexico, which are a ma
The official reminded reporters that while there is a lot of emphasis on the economic relationship with China, the Canada and Mexico are the US’s largest trading partners.
“For all of the mythology about China these days, for every dollar that China buys from the United States, Mexico and Canada together are buying $8 of American exports. We are your second largest buyer of exports. Canada is your first buyer of exports. So as we seek to ensure that our border is safe, and that we are monitoring and we’re ensuring that nobody uses it undermine the security of our three nations, we also need to make sure that as we thicken and strengthen our security on the border that we leave doors open for the free-flow of goods and services,” the official said.
2. Citizen Security This is a broad area, that includes health issues like H1N1, along with the violent criminal activity along the border. “A great deal of the discussion will hinge on drugs and thugs,” the official said. To that end, the official said that drug related crime is still a major issue in Mexico – and directly connected to the demand in the U.S.
“The fight against drugs cannot be won in the traditional sense of a battle, a war or a soccer game,” the official said, “Until you really take control of demand and consumer markets, the demand for drugs is completely inelastic so the economics and dynamics will be such that as long as Mexico sits next to the largest consumer market of illicit drugs in the world.”
Mexico also wants more gun control in the U.S., particularly when it comes to assault weapons.
“I would like to see the assault weapons ban reinstated – it’s not philosophical, it’s because of what we have seen on the ground…There is a direct correlation between the assault ban and expiring in 2004 and the numbers – simply the sheer numbers – of assault weapons that we seize in Mexico…We are both cognizant of what can and cannot be done right now – we will softly, diplomatically…continue to say that this is an important issue for us but I think the real perspectives of this moving on Capitol Hill these days are slim to say the least,” the official said.
““The Mexican government is not about challenging the Second Amendment. That’s a sovereign decision of the United States. It’s a sovereign decision of the U.S. Congress. That’s up to you guys. But the Second Amendment wasn’t adopted by the Founding Fathers to allow transnational organized crime to illicitly buy weapons in the Unites States and be illicitly cross them over international borders into countries where those calibers and types of weapons are prohibited,” the official said.
On H1N1, the official did not have much to say, basically just touted the response as an example of efficacy. The official said the two countries had worked together on a plan when SARS began spreading in Asia in 2005, which helped the response to H1N1.
“This is a very clear example of how by preparing ahead, by working together, by trying to ahead of the curve, we have built a mechanism which allowed us to - I think - very efficiently, quickly transparently respond to the H1N1 virus this year. No surprises – this will be an important chunk of the discussion that will take place between the prime minister and the two presidents,” the official said.
3. Enhancing Trade In addition to the economic priorities listed above, immigration reform will also be addressed in the Obama/Calderon bi-lat. They are not expected to talk specifics – more along the lines what the official called a “road map” for when/how reform might be possible.
“We see immigration as not only a challenge of how do you manage border flows but of how two countries – one abundant in labor the other one abundant in capital – can work together to create synergies where in a legal, transparent, orderly fashion can ensure that willing employees can match willing employees,” the official said.
4. Global/Regional Issues Everything from Honduras and Cuba, to Iran and Afghanistan, energy and climate change. The official also spoke about how Mexico would like the three countries to work as more of a block within the other existing partnerships (i.e. G20, G8) to leverage common goals.
This will be President Obama’s sixth meeting with his Mexican counterpart. The official described their relationship as a good one. “Both guys get one another. They understand each other,” the official said, listing off the things they have in common: both were underdogs when they started their bids for office, both left-handed, they got married the same year - both to successful attorneys.
Molon Labe
How about we propose that the dictators of Mexico step down and give freedom to the people of Mexico.
More crap from the Mexican oligarchs who cannot control crime in their own country so they want us to abrogate OUR Constitution.
Just more BRAVO SIERRA.
For any Hispanic non-English speakers in here, that would be GUANO deL TORO!!!
Blaming firearms is a category error by definition.
Calderon is head and shoulders over what has gone before. He was elected legally and is anything but a dictator. He is under constant attack from the PRI and other Mexican leftists. What the Mexican people don’t have is economic freedom because of their legal system (no right to private property), weak rule of law and their oligarchy, which has sided with the Left against Calderon.
“Mexico also wants more gun control in the U.S., particularly when it comes to assault weapons.”
Mexico wants, Mexico demands, Mexico bitches no matter how much we give them!
Enough already! MEXICO IS THE ENEMY!
WHAT IS AN ARMY? (The invasion of the USA)
From The US Border Patrol
http://www.usborderpatrol.com/Border_Patrol901_10.htm
Immigrant Effects, Part 10 (all 10 parts are amazing!)
The United States of America spent over forty years defending itself against a terrible foe. That foe was the Soviet Union.
The United States built 70,000 nuclear weapons of 65 different types to protect ourselves from a Soviet army of two million men. That two million man army was composed of Christians (the govenment leaders were definately not Christian) who were responsible for fine art, fine music, the first man in space and rockets to the moon.
What makes up an army? An army is made of men between the age of 15 and 35.
What comes across our border by the millions each year? Men between the ages of 15 and 35.
Afghan drug lords are now teamed with Mexican drug cartels to flood our cities with heroin. In Mexico, this Muslim Connnection to the drug cartels has brought beheadings to the streets of border towns. Many Mexican cities are now surrounded by Mexican Army troops and tanks — all to quel the violence. The city of Tijuana had its entire 3,000 man police force disarmed and replaced with Mexican Federal Troops.
What we have below are two images. One is of an enemy we fought tooth and claw for seventy years nearly bankrupting our country. The other we today invite across our border with welfare, free medical care, and more. The centers of many American cities are now controlled by MS-13 and others of the most violent gangs in America’s entire history. These gangs want to kill police and federal agents to rise in reputation among their own kind. Our prisons are now filled with a violent criminal class never seen before anywhere on earth.
In all of the 70 years of the Soviet Union — including the years of the proxy war of Vietnam.— they killed fewer Americans in total than Mexican Illegal Aliens do inside this country in a single year.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=What+is+an+army%3F
“But the Second Amendment wasn’t adopted by the Founding Fathers to allow transnational organized crime to illicitly buy weapons in the Unites States and be illicitly cross them over international borders into countries where those calibers and types of weapons are prohibited ...”
`Senior Mexican Official’
Senor Official must not be following USAGringo Today news: we’ve already tripped-up our own official liars by forcing them to admit that their figures, which supported the foregoing liberal lie that he just cited, were cooked.
By our own crooks. So save your bull, Pedro—our cow died.
Just a little historical perspective. Gun running was quite common from the US to Mexico during the time period post Civil War to the 1920’s. Mexican officials know that. They ARE trying to influence internal US gun policy. Wait until enough Mexicans are in Official positions here so that when the word goes out all hell will break loose! There will be total chaos within the USA when the blacks, perverts, aliens all begin struggling to divide up the loot, women and little boys.
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Yes that’s true, he is trying — but the ruling class will not be denied ... And that is where the dictators are, with their poor and downtrodden idiot supporters.
And who developed their legal system?
I loath to give the Statist Demonrats any ideas, but here’s a thought:
Why don’t they make a big announcement that they are going to put up a “Smart Fence”- sort of like ‘smart power’.
This would be a special fence that would stop the “Flow” of arms south – especially the Soviet made ‘Guideline’ SA-2 SAMS and other such heavy weaponry that freely available an any corner gun store, or at a gun kiosk at the local mall.
But it wouldn’t stop the flow of illegal immigrants – sorry, undocumented Illegal immigrants AKA new Democratic voters – Northward.
It would be a VERY smart fence you understand.
The great thing about this scheme is that since the really isn’t a flow of weapons south, there’s really no real need for a Smart fence. It can be a complete sham – like most of the rest of Fauxbama’s schemes.
It’s a win-win for everyone – well NOT everyone – the country will still go down the tubes, but hey nobody’s perfect.
Only one response...Build the fence...And build it high...
BS. Maybe that Mex official better worry more about his own troops deserting to become drug runners. They're taking their fully automatic 'assault' weapons with them.
The US/Canadian border is 5,525 miles long, senior Mexican official!
“’No two countries are more important to each other’s security, prosperity, and well being than these two countries – simply by virtue of having a 2,000 mile border,’ the official said”
Uh, isn’t the Canadian border longer?
“The US/Canadian border is 5,525 miles long, senior Mexican official!”
Beat me to it. And they tell us Americans are bad at geography.
May be he went to school in US, heh?;^)
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