Fox: US-Mexican Relations Back on Track

VOA News ^ | 2 May 2003 | Greg Flakus

[JackelopeBreeder]

Mexican President Vicente Fox says that, in spite of differences over the war in Iraq, he believes relations with the United States are back on track after meeting with President Bush at the G8 summit in France this past weekend. Mr. Fox wants to make an immigration accord with the United States a priority in upcoming meetings between officials from both countries.

The summit in France provided the opportunity for the U.S. and Mexican leaders to meet face-to-face for the first time since before the Iraq war began. Mexico opposed the use of force in Iraq and there was widespread speculation here that the United States might cool its relations with its southern neighbor as a result.

But, in an interview with Mexico's Televisa network, President Fox says his meeting with President Bush went well and that the two countries are moving forward to improve relations. He says the meeting with Mr. Bush was very friendly and affable and he says whatever differences they may have had over the issue of Iraq have now been overcome.

One of the most important issues in the bilateral relationship is immigration and Mr. Fox says that, while it did not come up as a topic of direct conversation in his meeting with President Bush, it remains on the agenda for future encounters.

He says Mexico and the United States have returned to the bilateral agenda. He says they are both ready to address the immigration issue in upcoming meetings between Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. He says once there have been advances in those meetings then there will be a formal meeting to develop something concrete.

An immigration accord with the United States has been a top priority for the Fox government for the past two years. Mexico does not produce enough jobs for its burgeoning work force and also benefits from an estimated $10 billion in remittances sent home by immigrants every year. Since the terrorist attacks of September, 2001, however, U.S. officials have concentrated on securing the borders rather than relaxing regulations to allow more Mexican workers to enter the country.

At the G-8 meeting, President Fox pressed for more inclusion of developing nations in future meetings so that issues that affect them can be discussed in a forum that already includes the world's richest nations. Mr. Fox says Mexico will be attending at least the next two summits, although he apparently failed in his attempt to have his country accepted as a full member of the group.

[JackelopeBreeder]

One of the most important issues in the bilateral relationship is immigration and Mr. Fox says that, while it did not come up as a topic of direct conversation in his meeting with President Bush, it remains on the agenda for future encounters.

Here's hoping this clown is engaged in wishful thinking.

Hey, Vicente. Go fix your own damn country.

[JackelopeBreeder]

What a dork! Ping!

[JackelopeBreeder]

Maybe I should have posted this under Political Humor.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

CRIMINAL INVADERS
round em up
move em out
make mexico return property to Americans
stolen in 1938
make cuba return property to Americans stolen
by castro and also money got from stolen
property used by other countries like
canada.

[AbsoluteJustice]

Where was this A$$face when 9/11 came about?? If I remeber correctly he was pushing for a huge gaping hole on the border to take all of his criminals and turd worlders across our borders to take care of them so he is rid of them. Remember all? Remember the huge agenda he was pushing for Bush to legitimize all ILLEGAL ALIENS over 4 million of them? Well 9/11 came and that RAT Foxhole hid and did not say a WORD!! Where was his support when out country was attacked? Where was his country's assistance when 9/11 came? Did he send emergency workers to help dig? NA. Now this rat has surfaced again and this is ONE DAMNED AMERICAN THAT DOES NOT FORGET. REFORM OUR BORDERS MR. BUSH LOCK EM UP before our whole country goes down the big $HITE tube!!!

[c-b 1]

Hey, Vicente. Go fix your own damn country.

That is what he is trying to do, convince us to pay him to export his problems over here.

[liberalnot]

boy!

that sure got fixed right quick!

[JackelopeBreeder]

Damn, son. Looks like I got on your very last nerve.

[liberalnot]

you know there is a way that fox and his billionaire buddies could fix mexico up.

open the country up to foreign ownership and investment. put governmental safeguards into effect so that middle class mexicans don't get burned. for example, i read once of a mexican family that bought a house and the owner took their money and didn't give them their house. he did this by bribing the local government.

if mexico modernized, then foreign investment would re-make the country.

with millions of american baby boomers nearing retirement, many would buy homes or second homes in mexico. but the retrograde mexican legal system prevents this from happening. thus, it prevents mexico from grabbing onto even larger foreign investment monies.

[BillyBoy]

>> He says the meeting with Mr. Bush was very friendly and affable and he says whatever differences they may have had over the issue of Iraq have now been overcome. <<

But in the meantime, our "best friend" in Mexico has to kiss the butts of Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussien, Bill Clinton, Gray Davis, George Ryan, Jac ChIRAQ, Jean Chretien, Vladmir Putin, and a whole host of other assorted corrupt socialists hell-bent on ruining America.

Hey Vince, when is your next schuduled trip here to protest the execution of one of your mass-murdering evil scumbags on death row?

I'd like to know how this @$$hole managed to get the "center-right" PAN party into letting a two-faced leftist moron like him run the party.

[FITZ]

Speaking of Bill Clinton...... who is Fox beginning to remind us of more and more?

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[JackelopeBreeder]

This guy is kissing so much butt right now he qualifies as walking toilet paper.

[RLK]

That means Fox is getting his way as he was before 9/11 interupted the Fox-Bush doctrine.

[Digger]

Yep. Nothing changes in this two-party oligarthy/cartel. Cool the sheeple down & then stick it to them when the polls are high. Wanna make a bet that he gives anmesty to millions when he's re-elected???? But why should he wait? Jimbo here & the rest will still vote for him. They are still locked in this fake 2-party crapola. This is what no competition gives one.

[4Freedom]

His latest protest will be of the shooting of one of his undocumented, Mexican tourists in front of his 3 "traveling companions" by a biggoted, racist, vigilante, terrorist ranch-hand in Texas by the name of Mendoza.

If Fox has his way, Americans won't be allowed to carry any guns, let alone hunt, within 300 miles of the borders.

[RnMomof7]

He says Mexico and the United States have returned to the bilateral agenda. He says they are both ready to address the immigration issue in upcoming meetings between Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. He says once there have been advances in those meetings then there will be a formal meeting to develop something concrete.

I REALLY needed to read this first thing in the morning...I may have to buy french wine to get through the day.!!!

[ImpotentRage]

Turned my stomach, too. If the legitimizing of the millions and millions of illegal aliens in this country takes place I really don't think I will be able to vote for Bush. I know the alternative, but we seem to be going to hell in a handbasket anyway, so bring it on.

[occam's chainsaw]

One of the most important issues in the bilateral relationship is immigration

Souinds great! Redirect the flood of undocumented criminals to Russia!

[occam's chainsaw]

You think I would learn - do not post comments while still waking up. I got this thread confused with the Mexico-Russia thread.

must...have...more coffee...

[janetgreen]

Vicente Fox - a miserable failure of a leader who has no clue about how to help his countrymen other than to ship them out to us to take care of.

If Bush falls for any amnesty deal with Mexico, he should realize that all the other third world countries will be lining up for a similar deal. They will say "why just Mexico, how about us"?

I thought I was voting for a conservative who would have better sense than a Democrat about the borders, but I was wrong.