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Mexico to campaign to legalize workers
Houston Chronicle ^ | 11/23/02

Posted on 11/23/2002 3:18:16 PM PST by Tancredo Fan

Mexico to campaign to legalize workers

11/23/02

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's foreign minister, Jorge Castaneda, said his country would begin a "bottom-up campaign" to win U.S. public support for a proposal to legalize 3.5 million undocumented Mexican workers in the United States.

Castaneda said Mexican officials will begin rallying unions, churches, universities and Mexican communities.

"What's important is that American society sees a possible migratory agreement in a positive light," Castaneda said. "We are already giving instructions to our consulates that they begin propagating militant activities -- if you will -- in their communities."


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; foreignmeddling; homelandsecurity; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; invasion
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To: rintense
"I'm tired of paying for illegal's healthcare with my premiums."

You and me both. My husband and I own a very small business, work 7 days a week, and we don't even have health insurance....we can't afford it. And in no way do we live beyond our means. This whole thing is sickening.

101 posted on 11/23/2002 5:39:47 PM PST by IamHD
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To: Dane
In other words, you beleive just like the Canadian socialist that Bush is a moron.

What do you care what I think about Bush? What do you think about the saber-rattling pinhead Mexican loser Castaneda? Isn't that the topic of the thread?

102 posted on 11/23/2002 5:41:59 PM PST by Tancredo Fan
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To: speekinout
Who could afford to have someone clean their house once/week or mow the lawn in the summer if they had to pay health insurance?

Is it your plan to stick the taxpayers at large with the medical bills?

103 posted on 11/23/2002 5:42:15 PM PST by sarcasm
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To: engrpat
Well where I live we have a anglo housekeeper and lawn service. Yes there are plenty of people here that are willing to do the jobs.

Good for you. Not so here. I have advertised many times over the last 10 years, and never once had an Anglo respond. The current lawn service is owned by an Anglo, but all the workers are Hispanic.

104 posted on 11/23/2002 5:42:54 PM PST by speekinout
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To: Dane
There are differing levels of lawbreaking and punishment- if you jaywalk you may get a ticket, if you steal you'll to go jail, but either way you've broken the law.

Ditto to a drug user/pusher and an illegal alien. One may go to jail, the other gets deported. But we shouldn't be rewarding either of them. Otherwise, I want to know, what laws can I break and get away with?

105 posted on 11/23/2002 5:43:32 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: IamHD
I should have said, we don't pay for illegal's healthcare with our premiums, because we don't have healthcare, but, we pay for them in other ways. We can't get sick, and if we do, we have to pay cash.
106 posted on 11/23/2002 5:44:33 PM PST by IamHD
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To: Tancredo Fan
What do you care what I think about Bush? What do you think about the saber-rattling pinhead Mexican loser Castaneda? Isn't that the topic of the thread?

Uh dude you were the one who called Americans morons because they aren't following the Tancredo pied piper.

Sorry that you don't like it, but that is your problem.

107 posted on 11/23/2002 5:46:14 PM PST by Dane
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To: Dane
It is time for them(Mexican elite) to go.

If you thought it would look too racist enforcing our borders try interfering with Mexico's internal politics.

America will end up paying for their problems before you can accomplish anything. How about we let them solve their own problems while we play a nice game of tough love.

108 posted on 11/23/2002 5:47:24 PM PST by PuNcH
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
So it's too much for you to clean your house or pay a legal citizen enough money to do it for you, therefore its a good idea to let the third world overrun us. It's cheap, lazy ba$tard$ like you that are leading us to ruin.

Yes, it is too much for me to clean my house. Why should I have to? And I do only hire legal citizens. They happen to be of Hispanic origin.
The lazy ones are the native born Americans who are too lazy to take these jobs, and too stupid to be able to make enough money to hire anyone else to work for them.

I think you need to get a little more education if you really think that people like me who can and will hire 2-3 other people are a problem.

109 posted on 11/23/2002 5:50:23 PM PST by speekinout
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To: AAABEST
You guys actually entertain Dane by responding to him?

I only hope we're reaching a larger audience who may be lurking. It's preaching to the choir for most of those on FR, but for any in the Republican establishment who've I've heard visit this site regularly, they've got to know amnesties are not a popular idea with most of those here who vote.

Might be wishful thinking, but you never know.

110 posted on 11/23/2002 5:50:57 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
There are differing levels of lawbreaking and punishment- if you jaywalk you may get a ticket, if you steal you'll to go jail, but either way you've broken the law.

Yes there are, but you seem to think that the immigrant mother cleaning toilets while supporting her family is on par or more evil than the limosine liberal "prodigy" smoking dope and smashing McDonald's windows.

I would rather have have the immigrant mother cleaning toilets and supporting her family as a member of society than the lily white limosine dope smoking liberal loser whose only goal in life is to rant and "destroy" McDonalds and Starbucks.

111 posted on 11/23/2002 5:54:07 PM PST by Dane
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To: Tancredo Fan
I don't remember voting for Garza.
112 posted on 11/23/2002 5:55:01 PM PST by holyscroller
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To: Dane
Uh dude you were the one who called Americans morons because they aren't following the Tancredo pied piper.

Uh, that remark wasn't directed at you, and was in reference to the obvious growing indifference to the rule of law among the sheeple, which appears to include the likes of you. Dude. Illegal aliens are criminals, one and all. Most of us want the laws strictly enforced.

113 posted on 11/23/2002 5:56:19 PM PST by Tancredo Fan
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To: Dane
Bush wins an election, sarcasm loses his mind like daschle, pelosi, and last of all least buchanan.

Use caps on proper names. I thought I taught you better.

and last of all least buchanan. HUH??

114 posted on 11/23/2002 5:57:46 PM PST by Brownie74
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To: PuNcH
America will end up paying for their problems before you can accomplish anything. How about we let them solve their own problems while we play a nice game of tough love.

OK, you are solidly behind in the building and manning a 2000 mile Berlin wall on the southern border and everything will be alright. No more damn Mexicans to worry about.

Sometimes I wonder who is more pollyannish, the Jimmy Carter left or the PuNcH/Buchanan right.

You all are giving Jimmy peanut farmer a run for his money, IMO.

115 posted on 11/23/2002 5:59:12 PM PST by Dane
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To: sarcasm
You forgot something: at the wages offered to illegal aliens.

I wasn't talking about illegal aliens. I was talking about workers here legally. I never advocated letting anyone here illegally.
And jobs do have intrinsic worth. I'd never pay, say, $50,000/yr. to have my lawn mowed. I'd pave it over first, and so would everyone else. People pay what the job is worth to them. You get paid the worth of your work, and not by what you think you should earn.
If you've ever had a job, you should understand this.

116 posted on 11/23/2002 6:00:35 PM PST by speekinout
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To: Dane
Did you even read the post? I did not equate drug pushers with illegal aliens, although let's be honest many of them are, or they're using forged documents. Even so, the only punishment an illegal alien gets is deportation. A drug pusher will usually go to jail. Big difference.

But either way we should not be rewarding them. No lawbreaker, no matter what they've done should be rewarded.

117 posted on 11/23/2002 6:03:15 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Dane; PuNcH
OK, you are solidly behind in the building and manning a 2000 mile Berlin wall on the southern border and everything will be alright.

Hey PuNcH!! How can you be solidly behind in building a 2000 mile Berlin wall when I didn't even know you had begun building one.

Better get busy hoss!!

118 posted on 11/23/2002 6:08:02 PM PST by Brownie74
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To: Tancredo Fan
TANCREDO FOR PRESIDENT..IF YA LIKED PAT YOU WILL LOVE TOM

Send money today

119 posted on 11/23/2002 6:08:04 PM PST by Texasforever
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
But either way we should not be rewarding them. No lawbreaker, no matter what they've done should be rewarded.

Even when a person has been doing such "evil" deeds such as cleaning toilets, picking vegetables, and making beds?

120 posted on 11/23/2002 6:08:15 PM PST by Dane
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