Posted on 06/28/2007 3:23:19 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
President Felipe Calderon of Mexico reacted sourly to news of the Senate's rejection of the proposed immigration law overhaul, calling the senators' action "a grave error."
"It's a grave mistake first because it's a problem that's not being confronted, and with this evasive action the U.S. Senate is making it worse," Calderon told reporters in Mexico City during a joint news conference with President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, who is finishing a two-day visit to the Mexican capital.
"Secondly, because to close the door on legal immigration, the only thing the Senate does is open the door to illegal immigration" the Mexican president said, according to an account published by the newspaper Reforma on its Web page.
Calderon repeated his "repudiation and rejection" of plans to build a wall along much of the U.S.-Mexico border.
More than a tenth of Mexico's 103 million people are estimated to live in the United States, many of them illegally. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans, and others from Central America, continue to cross the border every year illegally in search of work.
Mexico's emigrants last year sent nearly $25 billion home to family members. That money has become an important anchor in many rural communities and poor metropolitan neighborhoods.
Ortega, a one-time Marxist president of Nicaragua following that country's 1970s leftist revolution against a U.S.-backed dictator, was in Mexico City to strengthen ties with Mexico and also to visit the shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The Nicaraguan president had vowed to visit the shrine if he won election this year, which he did, returning to power 17 years after being voted out of office.
1. We're just doing the work Mexicans won't do - controlling our borders.
2. You seem to have the ideas of 'legal' and 'illegal' confused
3. We will need the fence, and we will build the fence, and we will guard the fence until you get your a$$ and your economy in gear
Estimates of Mexicans in the US go as high as 20 million which would be ~20% of their population. Had the bill passed and each Mexican brought in 2 relatives we would have had more than half of Mexico in the US.
It’s all yours!
He and the other brown supremacists in the bush cartel can ESAD.
Hey, if that stuff is good enough for Mexico, it should be good enough for us!
Mark
And remind me again why I should care what the El Presidente of Mehico thinks about United States political decisions ???
Sounds like it.
Yeah, what are they going to do? Send us their criminals, drugs, and attack us with their military? Oh, wait! They've been doing all those for quite some time now!
Mark
But first we need to take their oil, and then give it back... TO FRANCE!
Mark
The idea has some merit, but they better get started soon before the Norte Americano EPA gets started. (and it would still leave us dependent on foreign oil).
(1) increasing access for poor and under served populations in Mexico to the financial services sector, including credit unions;
(2) assisting Mexican efforts to formalize its extra-legal sector, including the issuance of formal land titles, to enable Mexican citizens to use their assets to procure capital;.....(IOW...send US Dollars)
(3) facilitating Mexican efforts to establish an effective rural lending system for small- and medium-sized farmers that will--
(A) provide long term credit to borrowers;
(B) develop a viable network of regional and local intermediary lending institutions; and
(C) extend financing for alternative rural economic activities beyond direct agricultural production;
(IOW....Send more US dollars)
(4) expanding efforts to reduce the transaction costs of remittance flows in order to increase the pool of savings available to help finance domestic investment in Mexico; (IOW...make it easier for US dollars to bleed south)
(5) encouraging Mexican corporations to adopt internationally recognized corporate governance practices, including anti-corruption and transparency principles; (Hey Mexico CEOs...howzabout getting your hand out of the cookie jar, pretty please?)
(6) enhancing Mexican efforts to strengthen governance at all levels, including efforts to improve transparency and accountability, and to eliminate corruption, which is the single biggest obstacle to development;(IBID)
(7) assisting the Government of Mexico in implementing all provisions of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (ratified by Mexico on May 27, 1997) and urging the Government of Mexico to participate fully in the Convention's formal implementation monitoring mechanism;....(IOW, beg the Mexicans to honor the deals they signed.)
I know. My point, and I’m sure I didn’t state it clearly (I suck at this)is the US isn’t their garbage can (well it is but this vote, the American people spoke). I hate when foreign govenments try to influence or think they have a say in what goes on in this country. I meant if he cared about his country, his people, then he would make changes in his country so the country could prosper. He only cares about his own interests.
I supported President Bush. Still do (but not on this). I’m glad he’s our president. I believe he has faith and acts on his faith. I value his SC choices and other things he’s done. I wish he’d tell the muslims in this country to f* off. I don’t understand why he wants to make 25 million illegals legal, people who have no intention of assimilating, contributing to this great country. I don’t understand why he keeps calling Islam the religion of peace when it’s anything but. I don’t understand why he sided with Ted Kennedy on NCLB and now this Amnesty Bill. I will never understand why any American thinks highly of Ted Kennedy, why he’s even a Senator.
Communism won’t win (Chavez is gonna self distruct soon and Cuba would have if we - the american people, efficiently and sufficiently choked them).
This guy’s definition of “legal immigration” is to let people in illegally and then make them legal after the fact?
Let’s help President Calderon out, shall we?
“Stop every campesino at our southern border, give him a handgun, a good rifle, and a case of ammunition, and send him home. He will know what to do with our gifts and good wishes. The people know who their enemies are. “
Well put.
“A grave error”, says the leader of a nation that is in a number of ways a third-world hell-hole.
I’d say this dip-stick is a member of a government that has made more than it’s own share of “grave errors” over the last century.
Nuff said about Mexican mega hypocrisy.
Normal, civilized countries use their foreign secretary or dept. of state to issue complaints to the other country.
It is a stupid rejection of past protocols.
It will hurt the Mexican President in the U.S.
You are correct!
LOL... but what difference would it make? Our powder puff officials wouldn’t enforce those laws any more than they do our current adequate laws.
I wish there were a way to vote every public official out of office. I’d even settle for 1/3rd for each of the next three elections.
Start with Lightloafer Lindsey in 2008. The others will come around real fast.
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