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.
stuff it!
He’s just amazed that we serfs have any say in how our country is run.
That is why Mexico opposes the fence.
I say, Let’s ANNEX Mexico!!!
Their population is here. All your oil revenues belong to us!
Screw Mexico and its President. Would they let you in? Not hardly. Let’s have the same immigration laws that they have. Hypocrites
Is this some kind of freakin threat?
Sounds like it.
Forget annexation. Let’s invade, clean it up, then give it back along with a bill for services rendered.
Straighten out your own damned country, jerk.
Let’s teach this gringo a lesson...BOYCOTT TACO BELL! That’ll show him! :-D
“President Felipe Calderon of Mexico reacted sourly to news of the Senate’s rejection of the proposed immigration law..”
So did Bush.
I wonder why there is no outcry for Mexico to step up and take care of its own? They have created the problem. It ain’t our job to solve it for them.
Someone here please fax him a serape to cry on...
Let us put Dick Cheney and his Daughters in charge of the operation. All we have to do is kick in the door, and we will be greeted as liberators.
The president of Mexico has made a “grave error” in dumping his problems on the U.S. We ought to show the SOB the might of our military at the border as we repel, with force, the invaders he encourages to trespass.
Love the comments...
The people of Houston have HAD IT!!!
Somehow we need to get the Mexican laws on immigration published widely to stop this sort of foolishness.
In fact, their laws are so strict, we could copy their laws and be very secure with our immigration policy.
How was the door closed on legal immigration?
The Mexican President and Bush are equal in their disingenuousness.
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