Posted on 06/25/2002 12:05:07 AM PDT by sarcasm
President Vicente Fox on Monday said he was concerned by the phenomenon of Central American emigration into Mexico and the United States.
Immigration is one of the issues he and his Central American counterparts will focus on at a regional summit scheduled for June 27-28 in Merida, Yucatan.
Hundreds of Central American emigrants illegally cross into Mexico on their way to the U.S. every day.
While most are detained and deported, the flow is increasing on a daily basis.
During the first five months of this year alone, officials in the southern state of Chiapas expelled more than 30,000 immigrants who had entered the country illegally, a National Migration Institute official said.
Fox also acknowledged the need to improve the treatment authorities mete out to detainees.
"You have to work on respect for human rights, that's why we have asked Central American countries to open consulates in the south and southeast," he said at a press conference with foreign reporters.
Fox stressed the main challenge lies in changing the conditions that cause massive immigration toward the United States. Aside from immigration, the Puebla-Panama Plan will also take center stage at the Merida meeting.
The Puebla-Panama Plan envisions the implementation of joint projects aimed at giving the region an economic and social boost.
The plan entails, among other goals, a four-lane highway running from southern Mexico to Panama, creating greater access to electricity and building tourist infrastructure.
Financing for the Mexican stretch of the roadway has been secured and construction is already underway.
Under the leadership of Jorge Bush we are going to become a 3rd world nation. Just what we need! a 4 lane highway with an unending flow of immigration from Central and South America. Close the Borders NOW!!!
But President Fox, these 30,000 immigrants are just looking for a better life for themselves and their children. Why not just grant them an amnesty, and provide them with driver's licenses, and welfare, and a free public school education for their children, and free medical care. You know, the same things that the Mexican government keeps demanding that the U.S. should provide to Mexican illegal aliens in the U.S.
We cannot stand for this, Denny's has a shortage of dishwashers right now, and the crops need a picking! Not enough of my tax dollars are going to fund their medical expenses, I want to waste more money on supporting illegal immigrants, come on Mr. Fox, make it easy for them!
Screw the American citizens without insurance, let them rot, I feel the need to support some migrant workers, lord knows they are the lifeline of the U.S.
Maybe we can ALL learn spanish to make it easier on them!
Now labor laws make that impossible. During the past 30 years we have had a flood of 80 million emigrants into this country and our government services, such as welfare, is severly overburdened. Makes no sense.
What makes you feel he is a jerk?
We are stuck for everyone who entered before today until they die because of their drain on the medicare and welfare system. While they are here they have 5, 6, 7 kids who drain on medicare, welfare, and the schools system they attend for which their parents pay no tax dollars into.
We are stuck paying to keep the ones who have commited crimes in jail.
We are stuck paying higher insurance costs for our medical and for our cars to cover those illegals who are uninsured.
We are stuck paying for lawsuits filed by them, we are stuck paying for welfare cliams, we are stuck paying for people to live ILLEGALLY in this country while some American citizens lose everything and move their family to the streets because their job can be done by an illegal for a lot less.
We are stuck because we are American citizens and we have less opportunities and services than an illegal immigrant.
/sarcasm
That is a very valid point. You can only slice the cake so thin before it starts to crumble.
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