Posted on 03/09/2002 12:14:17 PM PST by sarcasm
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Mexico’s Consul General for Colorado called Thursday for the repeal of a state law prohibiting undocumented residents from obtaining driver’s licenses.
Consul General Leticia Calzada, who serves a multi-state region that includes Colorado, called the restriction “very tough for them and for me, too.”
Undocumented residents are being cited for minor offenses that “are clogging courthouses in many counties because these Mexicans need to drive,” she said.
On Feb. 14, the Colorado Senate voted down a bill that would have granted driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrant workers who do not have a Social Security number, but who could provide an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number issued by the IRS.
Calzada’s comments came during a meeting with educators at Colorado Mountain College’s Glenwood Springs campus Thursday.
At that meeting, she also called for a new U.S./Mexican accord on immigration, and promised to serve as a resource for educators confronting challenges with the influx of Mexicans in local schools.
An immigration agreement is needed “to put order in this disorder” involving undocumented Mexicans in the United States, she said.
For the sake of the United States, and Colorado in particular, the issue of undocumented Mexicans must be resolved, she said.
“They are providing labor and energy to the economy of Colorado,” she said, adding that she finds Mexican workers in every resort-area hotel and restaurant she visits.
“Without Mexicans, Beaver Creek could not run,” she said.
An immigration agreement, Calzada said, also would be good for Mexico, “because Mexico needs some time — I don’t know, maybe 15 or 20 years — to improve its economy, its situation.”
In response to concerns from some Americans that Mexicans threaten to overpopulate the United States, Calzada assured her audience that Mexico wants its citizens to find good work at home.
“We would like to see the people of Mexico living in Mexico,” she said.
Mexico President Vicente Fox considers the Mexicans living in the United States “the forgotten ones” — economic exiles who deserve more attention, Calzada said.
Does Colorado have any mechanism to appeal the Mexican Consul General's decision, or is it something they'll just have to shut up and accept?
/sarcasm -- for the time being, at least
"these Mexicans need to drive"
Oh, then it's OK, I guess. Give them a choice. Let them drive to Mexico, or if they'd prefer not to return there, let them drive off a cliff.
"On Feb. 14, the Colorado Senate voted down a bill that would have granted driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrant workers who do not have a Social Security number, but who could provide an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number issued by the IRS."
It's surreal that such a bill would even exist in the first place.
"“Without Mexicans, Beaver Creek could not run,” she said."
I'll type this real slow:
I d o n ' t c a r e.
"Mexico needs some time — I don’t know, maybe 15 or 20 years — to improve its economy, its situation."
Tough sh*t. Let 'em do it on their land, on their time, and on their nickel.
"Mexico President Vicente Fox considers the Mexicans living in the United States 'the forgotten ones' — economic exiles who deserve more attention, Calzada said."
Oh, please, gimmeaf'nbreak. Fox and his "Spanish" aristocrats make a career out of driving the mestizo population across our border. They don't like 'em, they don't want 'em, and they have no compunctions at all about making them our problem.
The Mexican underclass's exodus into the US is nothing else than the worlds biggest case of "ethnic cleansing", and Fox and Gang come out of it smelling like a rose. (At least in some quarters.)
If nothing is done to put a halt to it, the US as we've known it is finished. Kaput. End of story.
Politically-correct euphemisms, such as "undocumented" are the red flag.
--Boris
Won't these 'rich and famous' groups ever be satisfied? Now they want to hire a bucket brigade to dump water into a creek.
Wouldn't want that creek to run dry. '-)
You catch on quick.
Yeah, brer rabbit, sure; I won't throw you in those thorn bushes. Nah.
Just think of all the horrible things that could happen: businesses having to pay people a decent wage, or to look for more effecient ways of getting work done with fewer employees via automation. Why, we might have a self-sufficient America, with full employment (real full employment, without resorting to bogus government statistics).
Yikes! We can't have that! Open the borders, boys! Farmer John needs his crops harvested, we need vegies to be 10 cents cheaper (and never mind our taxes going to farm subsidies).
Clearly we can't have someone deciding our national policy based on our national interest, rather than based upon the private self-interest of a few. Horrors!
Undocumented is now going out of style - the new term is migrant. The New York Times now simply says that they moved to the United States.
The next step will be the claim that they have "always lived here". Then we'll be the interlopers and the aliens. I'm starting to feel like a Serb in Kosovo.
Was Beaver Creek a ghost town before the illegals showed up? I don't know. I have never been there.
It's about time they get sick and tired of them!!
Maybe then the rest of us can set up meaningful borders..and if Bush wants to he and Fox can be co-Presidents there!
15 or 20 years of "good for Mexico" will finish the US economy off
Yeah, but it is too late. My nephew who is one year old is going to be like a Serb in Kosovo by the time he is 50. (as the earlier poster said)
If those here legally got in trouble, the lady would have a duty to try to help. But this is too close to putting the Mexican Government, itself, into the role of promoting an invasion. (I know from other threads, that that is in fact going on. But that does not make it tolerable.)
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