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."
Naw my ranch is covered in concrete. 3 square blocks of downtown Houston.
I do think there should be a guest worker program so that the people who do this work are legally here, and tracked. But we do need these people
Any employer who uses imported labor must be responsible for all expenses of such workers - including their medical expenses. Why should the taxpayers subsidize your cleaning lady?
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Actually I know quite a few. It'd be hard not to where I'm living. I know a couple who came over on a visitor visa --the girl was 15 coming to visit an aunt, they stayed, had their baby at the country hospital (free of course) and now collect welfare. I know another one who lives with men she's not married to, collects welfare for 3 kids, says she only married her Mexican-American husband to get into the US but divorced him. The farm-workers are out there working in 100+ heat sometimes 12 hour days for a bit of cash. Some are good enough people ----some are pretty bad for us.
If she's supporting all her kids completely herself and doesn't expect me to come up with free health care and $7000 a year a piece for schooling. If she's paying her fair share of taxes and all that and isn't getting food stamps and WIC and whatever else to supplement her pay.
If we need some low-skilled workers it's better for everyone if we'd have a temporary worker program where they're screened (criminal and health checks) and given some kind of visa that identifies them but they should leave families in Mexico unless they can pay the costs of them.
You can't make a point by taking unrelated sentences of mine and trying to tie them together. I SAID - I only hire legal citizens, I don't care where they came from.
And, yes, I do think there should be a guest worker program. My "cleaning lady" is not full time, but if she was, I wouldn't be averse to having a "guest worker" that I was responsible for. If I brought one from Europe and called her an "au pair" no one would blink an eye. If I brought one from Mexico and called her a "guest worker", people like you would have fits.
Yes, of course. That's the way it was with previous guest worker programs.
What happened to the previous programs is that our liberal citizens did not like the way the employers cared for the guest workers, and so the programs were ended. I DO NOT agree that guest workers should have luxuries. They should have safe and clean housing, and emergency medical care. And their working conditions shouldn't be any harsher than necessary (work in the fields is often harsh, and there's no way to make it better).
Only problem is, we have 5 million guest workers more than we could ever need.
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