Mexican hypocricy.
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Check this out, also sent by NAFBPO....It’s Honduras’ turn to whine and demand. Maddening!
A Honduran views migratory reform in the United States
La Hora (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 8/17/09
(Following is a portion of an op/col. by Raul Molina)
It seems that immigration (in the U.S.) is acceptable only when it deals with the theft of brains and talent from other countries. But that is not the case when the workers of the world propose that, in today’s globalized world, human resources ought to enjoy total mobility. Once again, the leaders of neocolonialism strive to place limits on our aspirations.
Migratory reform has been suspended. This does not mean that Guatemala should stop its efforts to obtain a more just treatment for our fellow citizens. Guatemala is the most victimized country in the area of deportations. We’ll restart the discussions begun a few weeks ago in Chicago to redefine the concrete proposals which Guatemala’s government and society, including the migrants, must take to the United States authorities.
Guatemala must set forth clearly that Guatemalan migration to the North carries with it benefits for the United States economy, but high social costs and no growth for our country. For now, it serves only as an escape valve for our underdevelopment and dependency, but at the risk of losing the younger generations, the country’s future. The United States, as a dominant country which attracts masses of the unemployed and the poor, doesn’t wish the immigration of the undocumented, and neither do we. But the only way to halt the flow from Middle America is to generate growth in this region. If the United States doesn’t understand this, and it seems there is no lucidity, the migration from the south will not stop no matter how many fences, physical, virtual or repressive, they might put up on the border. Until the United States gets serious about the issue, it has the obligation of stopping its policies of persecution and criminalization of what it calls “illegal” immigration; to do otherwise, no matter how many excuses they use, must deserve our permanent and total condemnation.
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And more whining from MEXICO!
Illegal alien students pay in-state tuition in some U.S. public universities; they are even admitted to the exclusion of others in order to fulfill minority quotas, but read what happens in Mexico.(note by NAFBPO)
El Universal (Mexico City) 8/17/09
According to the Population, Borders and Migratory Issues Committee of the Chamber of Deputies (House of Reps. of Mexico) thousands of migrant children are rejected in public schools in different cities of Mexico due to the lack of a Mexican birth certificate, which will affect their reentry into the national educational system. The chairman of the committee, Edmundo Ramirez Martinez, said “There are complaints from at least two thousand parents in states such as Michoacan, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Oaxaca, Queretaro and even the Distrito Federal that, after having returned from the United States some months ago, now they have that impediment from officials in order to enroll their children in public schools.” The PRI (pol. party) federal congressman explained that all those youths have U.S. citizenship and now face rejection and discrimination when they are denied entry into Mexican pre-school, elementary and high school education, “who are denied the enrolment of these children of Mexican parents and origin, due to the lack of a national certificate.” He pointed out that as a result of the crisis in the United States, thousands of families have returned temporarily or permanently to Mexico and now face the dilemma of obtaining a Mexican registration, at the risk of not getting it or simply not wanting to get it for fear that their children might lose their rights as U.S. citizens.
He pointed out that these children who were born in the United States and who have returned to Mexico “are practically non-existent as far as the educational and health systems, which reject them because they cannot prove their Mexican citizenship.”
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