Posted on 05/14/2005 11:39:27 AM PDT by AllieOop
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox called recent U.S. measures to stem illegal immigration a step back for bilateral relations on Friday and said Mexican migrants do jobs "that not even blacks want to do."
In comments likely to raise the temperature of the immigration debate, Fox defended the role of undocumented Mexican workers in the United States to a group of Texas business people meeting in Mexico.
"There is no doubt that Mexicans, filled with dignity, willingness and ability to work are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States," he said in a speech broadcast in part on local radio and reported on newspaper web sites.
Fox said recent, tougher measures against immigrants do not represent "the road we should be building between friends and partners."
Mexico has been seeking an accord with Washington for years to make it easier for millions of illegal Mexican immigrants to live and work in the United States. The country expects to repatriate this year more than 250,000 foreigners, mostly Central Americans headed for the U.S. border.
Mexican hopes were raised early last year when President Bush proposed a temporary worker program but it has become bogged down in Congress.
A key partner in U.S. border security, Mexico is upset at new U.S. controls on foreign-born people, including tougher rules to obtain drivers' licenses.
Congressional Republicans attached the immigration changes to legislation providing $82 billion in emergency funds for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush is expected to sign the legislation into law soon.
The law, approved unanimously by the Senate on Tuesday, waives environmental rules to allow the extension of a fence on the border between California and Mexico to stop illegal immigrants. Mexico calls the measure "overly extreme."
But Fox said he was encouraged by a bill put forward on Thursday by Sens. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, to allow some of the estimated 10 to 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to get legal jobs and eventual citizenship.
"I hope President Bush will support and push the initiative, as he has publicly agreed. I have to take his word and hope he delivers," Fox said.
Well planned, no coincidence...
Our culture of free govt money inhibits many from taking low pay jobs. You can make more just taking child support or charity or pan handling.
The employers just want to hire the illegal because they can get around government regulations and taxes.
Some do and some don't. One thing for sure, employers like seeing a friendly face to work with, not the surly unionistas that have stagnated our work ethic with "we'd rather die than take a paycut".
Even a partial border fence would be a huge improvement. Suppose the fence covered only 1/3 of the border, in the areas with the most traffic and where construction is easiest. The Border Patrol resources would be mostly concentrated on the remaining open 2/3 of the border. A team would be contantly fixing the holes and tunnels in the portion of the completed fence. The problem can be managed, with a huge reduction in people crossing.
why doesn't fox just say mexico, or more acturatly their states/prefectures, are applying for US statehood. If mexican lands are stats of the USA it solves all the issue fox is so worried about. Of course it wipes out his source of corruption money.
Whatsamatta?
No speaka de Spanish?
See Post #55, I translate for the Hard-of-Spanish.
From a previous thread I wrote:
I have been pondering this situation myself. I think it has to do more with arrogance. Bush, Clinton, McCain, the WSJ, and the myraid other open borders/free trade crowd simnply just can't envision the destruction of our culture and the erosion of our society. They believe the power and strength of the U.S. is immutable. It's just not possible for them to believe that their actions and decisions will be ever be detrimental to the U.S.
The republicans see themselves as both benevolent to immigrants and providing a source of labor for industry (such as it is these days). The left, of course, is only advocating illegal immigration to create a class of people who feel beholden to them so they can return to power.
In any case, neither side can look into the future far enough to imagine a U.S. that has been ruined. Both have evolved into political parties that believe that they are not bound by the history of human societal evolution: They each believe their way will be the first in the histoyr of man to triumph.
Our "leaders", both political and corporate, today are so insulated from the world of the common man that they think their insulation extends to the rest of us. They have enough wealth and power to protect themselves from any societal destruction that they simply cannot imagine it happening at any level of U.S. society.
There is historical precedent to show that when the top of society becomes to heavy it becomes unbalanced and is that much easier to topple. The U.S. is becoming more and more top heavy every year. Soon, external and internal forces will cause it to topple. Unless something is done to change the direction our "leaders" are taking us.
Señor Fox, con respeto a NUESTRAS leyes de inmigración...Siéntate, y cállate la jeta chingada.
Sometimes you've got to put things in a language that they will understand.
That picture is friggin hilarious.
I don't understand---why would you want to "get ahead" by taking Spanish at UTA?
Shouldn't it be that THEY take English? I am not so ready to turn over our AMERICANISM to a bunch of foreigners!
If I were going to take a foreign language it might be Japanese or some language that would help be in BUSINESS---
Do you think you are gonna get rich by learning Spanish?
I am not flaming you---on the contrary, the idea of an American taking Spanish so he/she can "fit in" to a future in AMERICA is down right scary!
5.56mm
It's nice to see you again.
and the reason essentially was I was sick and tired of being called a xenophobe and a racist because of my position regarding illegal immigration.
It's hard to ignore, but try. Sometimes it's just easier, though, to quit reading these news stories and FR for a spell. I know my blood pressure doesn't need to go higher. :-)
Heya, Vincente?
how bout you STFU and fix your own (hellhole of a) country?
¡Una cerveza grande y fría!
(big and cold)
ah. you caught that. good - now i don't need to ping y'all.
Vicente,
¿Qué tal si te callas la jeta chingada, y arreglas tu propio país?
LOL ! Only when reading paper toweling !
muchas gracias, amigo.
I can read Spanish (studied too much latin and french) but I cannot compose in it.
May I suggest the addition of "puta" between "chingada," and "y arreglas"?
That would work too, I guess.
What do I think their intentions are (both parties)? The "new world order" as mentioned by Poppy Bush and smiled upon by Clinton, continued by puppet Bush Jr. Extinction of the middle class, king of the world stuff...the very rich and the very poor, nothing in between. What else can explain the government-assisted invasion of America by a third world country, forcing America to pay the bill? Police state tactics.
I realize I'll get flamed for this, but I think it's true.
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