Posted on 09/13/2017 4:01:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico Luis Videgaray Caso on Tuesday made his first visit to Los Angeles, where he joined Mexican officials for the inauguration of a mental health hub and the announcement of services for DREAMers in the U.S. and in Mexico.
As part of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's initiative titled "Somos Mexicanos" or "We are Mexican," officials discussed new job programs for DREAMers and other undocumented immigrants returning to Mexico.
They also announced credit opportunities with favorable interested rates for young people between the ages of 18 to 35 living in the U.S. or Mexico who begin or continue entrepreneurial ventures in Mexico.
Authorities also said they're working to simplify the process of revalidating degrees from foreign institutions, and they plan to offer free health insurance to immigrants returning to Mexico.
"What we have said is that young people in the DACA program add a tremendous value to the U.S. These are young people (who are) talented, well-educated -- most of them with a college education and with a bright future in the U.S.," said Videgaray.
With an Oct. 5 deadline nearing, the consulate general of Mexico in L.A. will also offer free help for DACA recipients looking to renew their permits.
"The idea is to provide in the assistance through workshops or through direct legal assistance with our network of partners of organizations and attorneys so that they can renew the program without delay," said Felipe Carrera, who is in charge of the Mexican Consular Protection Department in L.A.
Videgaray met with DREAMers in Sacramento this week and said what they want is the most important question.
"What the DREAMers want is to stay and therefore the Mexican government will provide any support that we can within the law of the land, understanding that immigration decisions belong only to Americans and American institutions, but we will provide our diplomatic efforts and our legal support for them to fulfill their dream, which is to stay in America," added Videgaray.
Accounting major and Mexican immigrant Ansiris Salas interned at the Consulate General of Mexico. She said the newly announced programs make her feel supported by the Mexican government if she were forced to return to Mexico.
Still, she hopes to accept a job offer in the U.S. when she graduates from Cal State L.A. next year.
"As of right now, I already have three job offers and I'm really, really hopeful that something positive is going to happen for us DREAMers within the next six months," she said. "Because otherwise I'm going to have to turn down these firms."
How about promoting jobs and security in your own country so those “Dreamers” can go home?
If Mexican DACA ‘children’ (avg age 26 or 27) receive loans from the Mexican government and are living here, Trump should add additional taxes on that to pay for the wall.
Was Governor Ramirez Brown there to greet them???
If Mexico had done this in their own country a long time ago, perhaps even the parents of these “Dreamers” may never have come to the U.S. Mexico could also start trade schools, etc., teach them a skill that is NEEDED IN MEXICO.
Great, take ‘em all home with you!!
Should we bill them for educating their citizens? Of course, you notice they only want the DREAMERs back and not the millions upon millions of low-educated and unskilled they encouraged to leave Mexico.
“tremendous value to the US”
We’ll be the judges of that. No. DACAns would be like Americans playing pro basketball in Italy. Without AA and preferences, they would ride the bench here.
So, Luis, save your BS for the peasants back home who can read. We’ve got plenty of your Bund, many also named Luis, squeezing out that toro merde. GTHOOMC
More interference and meddling in America by the Mexican Criminals in charge of Mexico.
Lawlessness Is Not Compassion
American Thinker.com ^ | September 13, 2017 | E. W.Jackson
Posted on 9/13/2017, 9:47:26 AM by Kaslin
There is probably not an adult in America who hasn’t experienced having someone cut in line. It’s exasperating not only because it’s fundamentally unfair, but because it’s highly disrespectful of those already waiting. More confrontational personalities will tell the person to go to the end of the line. Others will say nothing. Nobody likes it.
Would it make you feel any better if the line breaker walked his cute teen-aged daughter to the front of the line and inserted her after you’ve been waiting an hour? It would be a deft move, intended to disarm you, but it would still be wrong. You might be less inclined to get aggressive with the young girl, but you still would not like it.
That, in a nutshell, is DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. It is adult illegal immigrants using their children to cut in line. There are closely analogous situations when we allow people to automatically go to the front and we don’t object. We don’t complain when pilots and flight attendants breeze past us to get on a plane. None of us grumbles when a handicapped person gets a reserved parking place while you’ve driven around the parking lot three times. We do make exceptions, but not in cases where someone has done something wrong or illegal to put themselves at an advantage.
There is appeal to the argument that minor children who came to America illegally under their parents’ authority should not be punished. However, they shouldn’t be rewarded either. Allowing them to stay and obtain a work permit brings with it other advantages. Some colleges, for example, brag about the number of “Dreamers” they have enrolled and the scholarships awarded to them.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3585507/posts
I would not trust the Mexican government on anything. They are a corrupt bunch just looking to steal more money from the US.
Some little skank did that to me in a Wal-Mart several years ago and when I called her out on it she got belligerent. I weigh 325lbs and look like a biker, so I said to the cashier “is she on drugs?”
If Mexico had done this in their own country a long time ago, perhaps even the parents of these “Dreamers” may never have come to the U.S. Mexico could also start trade schools, etc., teach them a skill that is NEEDED IN MEXICO.
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Why do that? Cost them nothing for their law-breaking citizens to come here, live on our welfare system, and become educated on our dime.
Well said.
Give the LA Basin back to Mexico.
What would Mexican officials know about creating jobs? Look at Mexico’s economy.
I thought most of these Dreamers were Central Americans and not Mexicans. If so Mexico would have very little incentive to train\educate them.
Whose UC is it? Legal California kids or a DACA UC Freeloader?
Everyone of these undocumenteds, who got a college education, $crewed a California kid out of being able to go to college besides increasing the cost of college to those legal citizens enrolled a California college.
UCLA admitted just 14.6 percent of California hopefuls this year, even as it became the first American public university to get more than 100,000 admission applications. Berkeley took just 19.7 percent, with out-of-staters eating up many slots that otherwise could go to Californians. As they previously have, UC officials predicted in-state enrollments would actually rise, noting they have longstanding analyses of how many admission offers are acted on by non-Californians.
Whose UC is it? — still a valid question
By THOMAS D. ELIAS | Orange County Register PUBLISHED: August 8, 2017 at 12:02 am | UPDATED: August 8, 2017 at 11:01 am
As a new school year approaches on the nine campuses of the University of California, it’s fair for parents of prospective students to ask once again, as many have for at least the last eight years, whose UC will it be?
The question first arose during the Great Recession that began about nine years ago, a time when UC began accepting more and more out-of-state and foreign students to help make up for funding cuts inflicted by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators.
Over 12 years, the foreign and out-of-state enrollment at UC — some of whose campuses are routinely listed among the top five public universities in America and the world — rose from 5 percent to more than 21 percent. University administrators were forced to concede the $26,000 in extra tuition paid by the children of Arab oil sheiks and Chinese multi-millionaires and government-subsidized students from myriad other places had a lot to do with their vastly increased numbers at UC.
Meanwhile, the proportion of highly eligible California high school graduates who actually went to UC was falling despite their supposedly being guaranteed a slot somewhere in the university.
About two years ago, administrators began feeling some heat over this, with state legislators threatening to cut the taxpayer contributions to UC coffers unless the trend stopped. So UC regents voted overwhelmingly in late 2015 for a plan to increase in-state enrollment by 5,000 students in each of the next two years, this fall being the plan’s second year.
This action, proposed by UC President Janet Napolitano, amounted to a tacit admission that the critics were correct.
Since then, there has been a bit of a shift toward higher enrollments of Californians at UC. The system announced as it sent out acceptance offers this spring it would have 2,500 more California undergraduates than it did two years ago. Not exactly the 10,000 promised by the university’s governing board back then, but progress nonetheless.
In fact, UC reported that admission offers to Californians declined this year by about 1,200 from last year, a drop of almost 2 percent. Meanwhile, a reported 31,030 non-Californians got admission offers, a jump of about 4 percent from last year.
Justifiable outcries began immediately. “UC officials are tone deaf and insensitive to Californians and the (state’s) master plan for higher education,” said state Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Roseville. “Californians subsidize UC so that their children may attend and learn to be competitive in this global economy. Instead, UC officials are admitting non-Californians to the detriment of California students.”
What Nielsen said is more true of the primo UC campuses like Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego and Irvine than it is of those at Riverside, Merced and Santa Cruz, which are in somewhat less demand by out-of-staters.
UCLA admitted just 14.6 percent of California hopefuls this year, even as it became the first American public university to get more than 100,000 admission applications. Berkeley took just 19.7 percent, with out-of-staters eating up many slots that otherwise could go to Californians. As they previously have, UC officials predicted in-state enrollments would actually rise, noting they have longstanding analyses of how many admission offers are acted on by non-Californians.
But there are new questions about the reliability of statements from Napolitano and her staff. A state audit, for example, showed the president’s office squirreled away about $175 million over the last few years in a slush fund, at the same time tuition rose by almost the same amount. That led to great mistrust, which many governors would have resolved by firing the perpetrators.
But, as usual with financial chicanery conducted by officials associated with Gov. Jerry Brown, no one was punished and business carried on, following pious pledges to clean up their act from Napolitano and other administrators.
All of which leads parents of prospective UC students to feel betrayed by and untrusting of a system originally created to serve people like their children. Thomas D. Elias is a writer in Southern California.
http://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/08/whose-uc-is-it-still-a-valid-question/
Good for you.
I’m not about to get in a fight with a woman.
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