Immigration will be key topic when Bush, Fox meet Friday

The Dallas Morning News ^ | March 19, 2002 | ALFREDO CORCHADO

[Love America or move to ......]

Immigration will be key topic when Bush, Fox meet Friday Mexico's ambassador says countries need to regain momentum

03/19/2002

By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON – Mexico's top diplomat in the United States said Monday that the upcoming meeting between President Vicente Fox of Mexico and President Bush will be a reunion aimed at "recuperating momentum" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which stalled high-level migration talks between the countries.

In an interview with reporters, Ambassador Juan José Bremer said the meeting between Mr. Fox and Mr. Bush on Friday at the U.N. Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, will include talks on immigration, border security and poverty.

"Six months after September 11th, we're restarting our negotiation discussions, and I think it's an important project that will continue having its weight in the bilateral relationship," Mr. Bremer said. "How far can we go? It's not for me to say."

A senior administration official echoed Mr. Bremer and said Mr. Bush wanted to "accelerate" the immigration talks.

"The agenda hasn't changed very much," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Migration is a very important topic for both countries."

Separately, one of the Washington's top immigration scholars called on both governments to use the upcoming meeting to move the immigration agenda forward.

Demetrios G. Papademetriou, co-director of the Migration Policy Institute, convened a high-level U.S.-Mexico migration panel a year ago to devise the framework for the current migration talks. On Monday, he called on both governments to consider adopting a four-point program.

The proposal calls for a registration program for the estimated 10 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, a legalization program for those immigrants who register, a broad temporary worker program for new Mexican workers to help meet continued U.S. employer demand, and a new security arrangement along the U.S.-Mexico border.

If the Bush administration doesn't adopt a comprehensive approach and neglects to work closely with Mexico on the migration issue, it will learn another "lesson of unilateralism," Mr. Papademetriou said, referring to the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, or IRCA.

The act was designed to restrict immigration by combining amnesty for 2.8 million immigrants, most of them from Mexico, with tightened border controls, Mr. Papademetriou said. But by 1990, there were as many new undocumented immigrants as there were before 1986. "We were back to where we started," he said.

Staff writer G. Robert Hillman contributed to this report.

[Love America or move to ......]

"If the Bush administration doesn't adopt a comprehensive approach and neglects to work closely with Mexico on the migration issue, it will learn another "lesson of unilateralism," Mr. Papademetriou said"

"Lesson of Unilateralism" : I interpret that to mean Continued Mass Illegal Immigration from Mexico. Or : If you don't give Mexico what it wants vis-a-vis immigration and amnesties, Mexico will continue to send millions of it's citizens illegally and you will have to deal with it later most likely with another amnesty.

"The agenda hasn't changed very much," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Migration is a very important topic for both countries."

[My Favorite Headache]

Do they have a special room at the White House for Fox? Jesus he is always there!

[Arleigh]

Separately, one of the Washington's top immigration scholars called on both governments to use the upcoming meeting to move the immigration agenda forward.

TRANSLATION: "Separately, one of Washington's many internationalist elites called on both tyrannies to ignore the will of 90% of the American people and continue to flood the US with impoverished aliens who do not share our heritage, culture or language in order to destroy the last vestiges of a patriotic middle class that are holding back implementation of a profitable New World Order."

[lsee]

Migration? These aren't herds of buffolo we're talking about...

[Keyes For President]

Immigration is a domestic issue and a United States internal affair. Why in the world is a Foreign president being consulted?

[ATR]

Hmmm, migration, invasion, unchallenged colonization.....

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

This issue will end Bush's political career if he doesn't come to his senses. He doesn't have enough political capital to sell out America's sovereignty. This, I'm afraid, is pure, buck-naked globalism.

[umgud]

The people coming across our southern border are not Mexico's best and brightest (meaning they didn't come from the Mexican space program or biotech industry). Nope, these are people who will, in the next ten years, elect all the politicians who will govern the entire s/w US.

[cynicom]

um...

Bush is going to convince me to stay home 04.

[RodgerD]

For his next trick the Amazing El Foxo will drink a glass of water while Jorgecito squeals "Amnesty"!

[gabby hayes]

Very, very clever. Hopefully this piece will gain wide circulation. By the way, who is the author?

[RodgerD]

just me and Photoshop - which is why its a little rough

[willyone]

Migration is a more hostile form of immigration usually associated with replacing a native population with outsiders who are more determined and ruthless. Since Americans no longer seem able to protect their interests others will take that as a sign of weakness and take what we no longer deem worth protecting. In other words they are going to kick our asses out of the Southwest and anywhere else they feel like and we will do nothing to stop it. In fact Jorge Bush and friends are going to make it easy for them.

[Uncle Bill]

"The proposal calls for a registration program for the estimated 10 million undocumented immigrants illegal aliens living in the United States, a legalization program for those immigrants who register,"

Audio Jorge Bush

Audio - "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders..."

Audio - "We will not tolerate foreign forces dictating and enacting laws on Mexicans."

[lsee]

Thanks for clearing that up. I hadn't heard that term before, but my statement was an attempt to sarcastically point out that a herd of buffalo would be easier to deal with than the "migration" we've been enduring during badpresident's reign...I only pray that Bush won't earn that label, too, with what I consider to be his wrong-headed immigration ideas.

[Righty1]

They will also elect the next president of the USA. Who knows it may be the last election which is for president of the U.S. as we know it. Back Robert C. Byrd's last ditch effort to save America.

[Righty1]

"We will not tolerate foreign forces dictating and enacting laws on Mexicans," said Zedillo in a speech Thursday in Campeche. Congressional legislators and high-ranking Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) members have threatened to appeal the law in an international forum, and several formal communiques have been sent to the different branches of the U.S. government. Zedillo warned that any human rights abuses against "our brothers" living abroad will be answered with the "full force of all the legal instruments at our disposal." The last head of state to agitate for his foreign nationals to this extent was none other than Adolf Hitler.

[dougherty]

LOL, that's cute. Just think of how much material you will have to work with beginning this Friday, lol.

[dougherty]

How sickening. He mentions that our closest relationship (we're not speaking physically either) is with Mexico. Yeah right, lol. Does Jorge see how well Mexico has stood by us during the War on Terror, all the troops they've sent in support? roflol. That title goes to Britain, and NOT the third world cesspool south of the border.