Mexico looks to assure Americans with new immigration campaign

Charlotte Observer ^ | March 26, 2006 | HUGH DELLIOS

[FairOpinion]

MEXICO CITY - As the U.S. Senate focuses this week on the issue of illegal immigration, Mexico has launched a campaign to convince Americans that it will do more to stop the flow of undocumented workers into the United States and prevent violence along the border.

U.S. officials have praised the Mexican overtures, which include the adoption and publishing of a new immigration policy that calls for creation of economic and housing programs that would lure Mexican workers back home and an accord to better cooperate with U.S. officials on quickly responding to border crime.

While skeptics note that some of the promises clash with Mexico's long-held positions and actions, U.S. and Mexican officials say the moves reflect a rare public commitment by Mexican authorities to accept responsibility for the root causes of illegal immigration and take steps to prevent it.

The Mexican government is working toward the same goal as the Bush administration: a guest-worker program that would regulate the undocumented immigrants already in the United States and the half-million Mexicans who cross the border illegally each year. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Monday whether to approve such a bill and send it to the full Senate.

Many congressional Republicans instead favor legislation approved in the House in December that focuses only on tougher border enforcement. That legislation would extend border fences, speed deportations, make illegal immigration a felony and crack down on those who employ illegal immigrants and assist them.

[HiJinx]

Glad to have ya' aboard!

I'm in Arizona, just beyond spittin' distance from the International Border.

[FairOpinion]

"U.S. officials have praised the Mexican overtures, which include the adoption and publishing of a new immigration policy that calls for creation of economic and housing programs that would lure Mexican workers back home and an accord to better cooperate with U.S. officials on quickly responding to border crime."

Quaestion is how real this is.

[upchuck]

Please have pity on those of us stuck in 56K dialup HELL and either post small, linked thumbnails or just links.

Thanks!

[junta]

Someone ping the traitor lobby that thinks this open borders is a great idea. 500,000 insurgents wanting "their land back" and we have people on a conservative web-site actively championing a third world kleptocracy over America. We want Dane to explain why he supports these marchers.

[Shermy]

It's a cover story for Bush to cite as "proof" Mexico maybe will do something sometime in the future adverse to its financial interests as interpreted by its ruling Blanco elite. And if you suggest this you will be labeled as "uncivil."


just a guess...

[upchuck]

A whole bunch of us are neither ready nor willing to believe what we're being told by the folks in DC and Mexico City.

AMEN!

[Americanexpat]

And why should we believe the Mexican government about anything?

[Paladin2]

Mexico can just send oil for 10 years or so, and then we'll reconsider their intentions.

[just deserts]

"we have people on a conservative web-site actively championing a third world kleptocracy over America"

This bears repeating. Doesn't give me much hope either.

[skinkinthegrass]

It'll never happen
....too little real $$$$ goin' to the peons and with the Illegals' remittances comin' in from USA (see: "a Gringo Safty Valve" :^)
there's no real social reason / pressure to change
....and too much $$$$ in graft in high places in Mexico City.

[funkywbr]

If the mexicans wanna tell US something, next time someone please tell them to "SPEAK ENGLISH"!~}

[Shuttle Shucker]

Wouldn't Mexico's economy improve if its govt. stopped being so anti-foreigner? Here's a potentially astonishing related thread which details how FLAGRANTLY anti-gringo Mexico's immigration laws are compared to our own:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1602610/posts

Can you believe it? Why doesn't the media cover this information (yet)? That would set the race-baiters still in their tracks! Couldn't we stop the amnesty juggernaut if we figured out how to expose how racist MEXICO's own immigration laws are, maybe through a massive letters to the editor campaign and calls to talk show hosts and our politicians?

[Fawn]

Ping to GWB!

[skinkinthegrass]

Even this CBS poll is showing how Americans feel:
Do You Support A Congressional Bill That Would Make Illegal Immigrants Felons?

That Would Make The Illegal's Immigrants Employers Felons?

(MUCHO) BETTER. :^/

[stopem]

"web-site actively championing a third world kleptocracy over America

URL of that website please.Thanks.

[CowboyJay]

"While skeptics note that some of the promises clash with Mexico's long-held positions and actions, U.S. and Mexican officials say the moves reflect a rare public commitment by Mexican authorities to accept responsibility for the root causes of illegal immigration and take steps to prevent it."

Hate to sound cynical, but consider the source. A former Mexican Consulate is one of the main agitators involved in the recent parades extolling the virtues of criminal immigrants.

They're just creating PR spin to try and keep HB 4437 from passing the Senate. They know that it will cut-off two of their biggest income streams: illegal narcotics and illegal aliens sending money back home.

[Uncle Vlad]

I'll try and read the article again when I stop laughing.

[dalereed]

You're dreaming, the spanish that run Mexico will never let any mexicsn have anything or attain a position of prominance.

[jerry639]

I won't trust anyone on immigration reform until the border is secure. Anyone who starts with the assumption that it can't be done, can't be trusted on immigration reform.

I won't trust anyone on immigration reform until I see Illegal Mexicans being deported back to Mexico in mass.

[Tammy8]

The Mexican government cannot be trusted.

That is probably the understatement of the year!!