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Laura Bush confident in Mexico-U.S. immigration agreement
The News - Mexico City ^ | 9/26/02 | N/A

Posted on 09/26/2002 9:00:02 AM PDT by Tancredo Fan

Laura Bush confident in Mexico-U.S. immigration agreement

EFE - 9/26/2002

U.S. First Lady Laura Bush said she was convinced an immigration agreement could be reached between Mexico and the United States, because their leaders want it.

Mrs. Bush, who participated in the 11th Conference of the Wives of Heads of State and Government in Mexico City on Wednesday, said, "I do see a solution to this problem."

In statements to the Mexican press made in Washington and published Wednesday in Reforma daily, Laura Bush explained she and her husband had lived in Texas for many years and have a special sensitivity for the problems of the U.S. Hispanic community.

"There are so many stories about immigrants and the children of immigrants in the United States. Our whole country is made up of immigrants who were able to overcome poverty and obtain good jobs. There are many examples in my husband's administration," the first lady noted.

Mrs. Bush acknowledged that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks had set back the agenda between Mexico and the United States, but insisted that Presidents Bush and Fox "are going to meet again to try to revitalize and refocus the issue of immigration."

The first lady said she felt "a special bond with Mexico" and recalled the couple had spent their honeymoon in Mexico City and the Caribbean resort of Cozumel. The first lady is expected to focus on childhood poverty as she participates in this summit.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; homelandsecurity; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist
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To: sweetliberty
When some nice H1B visa recipient ends his employment options maybe he'll change his mind...*cackle*. Or, maybe he'll show us how it's done and take up a hammer & chisel for $4/hr with no benefits.
201 posted on 09/26/2002 3:46:47 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: PRND21
This is a PUBLIC forum. If I were talking behind your back I'd be using FReepmail. Frankly, you've said nothing worth talking about.

Jerk

Jerk is sarcastic, mean, unforgiving and never misses an opportunity to make a cutting remark. Jerk's repulsive personality quickly alienates other Warriors, and after some initial skirmishing he is usually ostracized. Still, Jerk is very happy to participate in electronic forums because in cyberspace he is free to be himself...without the risk of getting a real-time punch in the mouth.

202 posted on 09/26/2002 3:51:46 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: Vets_Husband_and_Wife
I agree with you on most of your comments. I like Laura Bush very much. I like GW Bush very much as well. I do, however, believe that he has a serious blind spot when it comes to this issue. I realize that he has a great many responsibilities as well, and the Rats with their obstructionist tactics fighting everything he tries to do are getting more than tedious. He must really be a patient man. I have little doubt that had Bill Clinton had had to deal with the same thing in reverse, there would have been a lot of Republican congressmen gone missing by now. I admire Bush for that.

I also understand that the war on terrorism is the number one issue on his agenda, but the one thing that just makes no sense at all to me is allowing the conditions at our borders to continue to deteriorate while at the same time worrying about when and from where the next attack might come. It just seems to me that the only common sense thing to do until we gain some semblance of control over who enters our country would be to err on the side of caution, and if that p*ss*s some people off, oh well. Too bad. As long as we have little or no control over the borders, all the borders, we are vulnerable and it is hard to take the war on terrrorism seriously.

203 posted on 09/26/2002 4:14:23 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: Black Agnes
His most recent letter from Crawford, in August, stated that he planned to continue to push for congressional approval of 245(i). He did last spring. He's just waiting till after mid-term elections.

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And that isn't the half of it. Let the opposition wear itself out and the suckers get false confidence and think they have something, then sock it to them. --Not that I think Bush is that crafty and cunning. He just has this stupid and destructive impulse and vaguely knows something's in the way right now.

204 posted on 09/26/2002 4:23:40 PM PDT by RLK
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To: sweetliberty
You must live up in northwest Arkansas, home of China-buying Wal-Mart: A corporation that wants to run everyone out of business.

I've heard that places like Bentonville and Rogers are seeing quite a heavy influx. They're apparently working in places like chicken plants (Tyson). Do they work with Wal-Mart?

205 posted on 09/26/2002 4:26:25 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: sweetliberty
These are the true fifth columnists, not conservatives who don't toe the line of the Bush administration.
206 posted on 09/26/2002 4:29:24 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: Black Agnes; PRND21
To Black Agnes:
You're correct. Bush is worse than any Democrat on immigration because he can drag some of the GOP in Congress along with his abolish-America policies. The open-border crowd will never make a coherent case for their beliefs on this or any other thread because it can't be done. What they will do, as you've seen, is snipe and pick endlessly at individuals and their postings.
207 posted on 09/26/2002 4:30:05 PM PDT by RodgerD
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To: FreedomFriend
Actually, I am living in central Arkansas right now, but was up in northwest Arkansas when I first came to the state. There are a lot in both places, as well as in rural areas with some smaller towns having a population as high as a 40% I am told by FReepers who live in those areas. I honestly have not seen any working in the Walmarts and I work for a company that is contracted by Walmart so I have a lot of dealings with Walmarts throughout the state. The customers are another story though, and Walmart will provide translators.
208 posted on 09/26/2002 4:33:14 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: sweetliberty
If she thinks that it should be overturned, than I have no problem, for that's the right thing to do.
209 posted on 09/26/2002 4:36:18 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: sweetliberty
She never said that she supported abortion. What she did say was that she didn't think that Roe v. Wade should be overturned. As I recall she was put on the spot with the question.

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But it's a little like saying the same thing in effect, isn't it. In logic there is the concept of the obverse. All A are B. The obvers is the tautological no A is non B. The tautology can be stated in the least entrapping form. What I do not here in here statement is strong serious objection to abortion. That's the bottom line. A middle-aged Ph. D. with life experience could be expected to make a more challenging statement.

210 posted on 09/26/2002 4:36:23 PM PDT by RLK
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To: John Lenin
Hi neighbor! Welcome to FR.
211 posted on 09/26/2002 4:43:18 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: Black Agnes
Why are they shoving this agenda down our throats?

Simple. Bubba-2 is a statist,and wants the US,Mexico,and Canada to all be one nation. Preferably with his half-Mexican nephew,George "The Mexican" Bush as the president. The Bush family is in the oil and political businesses,and there is a LOT of oil in Mexico.All of it owned by the Mexican government,who has the right to award oil contracts to anybody they want without having to answer for it. Jeb's wife is a Mexican,and since there are really only two classes of people in Mexico,she is a member of a family in the ruling class. If her family were poor,they wouldn't have been able to afford to send her to college in the US. I have no idea what connections her family has to the corrupt governments that have always ran Mexico,but you can bet they would be interesting.

BTW,I bet it would also be interesting to see if Prescott Bush has acted as a broker to sell Mexican oil to China.

212 posted on 09/26/2002 4:44:36 PM PDT by sneakypete
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To: two23
I was watching the news one night, and they had a story about all the graffiti that has "popped-up" in Gainesville over the last several years. They were informing us that the city has undertaken city beautification efforts to remove the graffiti. Unfortunately, they never made a connection between the correlation of the increase in graffiti and the increase in the number of illegal aliens residing in the area. I wonder why?
213 posted on 09/26/2002 4:47:01 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: FITZ
You have to wonder why he is calling all the shots here.

He's the one who controls the Mexican oil wells,and who gets oil contracts.

214 posted on 09/26/2002 4:48:29 PM PDT by sneakypete
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To: lawdog
Other area hospitals are not far behind

Harbor General Hospital in Torrance is about to go under unless the taxpayers "save it". We're also being asked to build new schools for the invading horde. Property taxes are already sky-high, but they'll go up to accommodate the needs of the invaders. All this without a word from Feinstein, Boxer, Harman or Dud Davis. It's all OK with them because they live behind the gates.

215 posted on 09/26/2002 4:50:03 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: sweetliberty
Why are there so many Mexicans (percentage-wise) shopping in Wal-Mart, while other places have no where the same proportion shopping in their stores?
216 posted on 09/26/2002 4:52:51 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: spodefly
If we cannot do it with our legal representatives, then we will have to do it ourselves.

Well,looks like I'm going to have to call the "TIPS Hotline" on you,so agents from the Office of Reich Security can come by and pick up up for violations of the "Patriots Act".

BTW,doesn't Jorge "The Messiah" Bush look just DREAMY in his new sombrero?

217 posted on 09/26/2002 4:53:02 PM PDT by sneakypete
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To: Barnacle
So, these people (the Bushes) are unable to distinguish between immigrants and invaders?

Well,to be fair the Bush's and the other elites,it's hard to distinguish any difference when your bodyguards keep them all a minimum of 500 yards away,and there are none living in your exclusive gated/guarded community. Sure,there may be a few doing yard work during the day,but they are escorted out by the police before it gets dark.

218 posted on 09/26/2002 4:55:49 PM PDT by sneakypete
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To: PRND21
I'm an engineer, dink.

I'm a brain surgeon if you're an engineer.

219 posted on 09/26/2002 4:57:04 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: PRND21
I'm an engineer

Oh.

Maybe you should read these articles about your pet sponges between insult slinging sessions:

Illegals' unpaid bills slam hospitals

Including Maricopa's costs would make price tag soar

Migrant care cost El Paso $30 million

Hospitals foot $31 million migrants bill

Our economy depends on illegals. It would collapse without them (LOL)!

Don't miss O'Reilly tonight. Maybe we'll all find out what a "Chicano studies" professor really is. My guess is a fifth column Marxist agitator.

220 posted on 09/26/2002 4:58:44 PM PDT by Tancredo Fan
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