Ford vice president acquires Mexican citizenship, ID card

Detroit Free Press ^ | December 6, 2003 | ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA

[sarcasm]

Ford Motor Co. Executive Vice President James Padilla became one of Detroit's most prominent Mexican citizens Friday, receiving his citizenship and the controversial Matricula Consular identification card.

Padilla's symbolic gesture was a bold move politically and from a business standpoint, considering his position with the world's second-largest automaker.

[clee1]

But he points to the hundreds of thousands of Mexicans across the country and in Michigan who are here legally and work and pay taxes and who can benefit from the consular ID cards.

Legal immigrants can get drivers licenses or State ID cards.

[CasearianDaoist]

When did dual citizenship with Mexico become legal? Seriously, I want to know.

[Tripleplay]

The liberal press is simply amazing............you will never read that illegal aliens also bring tuberculosis, covicted felons, wife beaters, welfare cheats, etc. and a Mexican culture that relies on graft, fraud and kickbacks to deliver goods and services to its citizens.

This "culture" will become a major problem within a generation as millions of illegals are allowed into the USA every year.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Another bold Ford executive, former-CEO Jacques Nasser, told an audience of Ford corporate HQ personnel that, "I do not like the sea of white faces in the audience."

Being the sensitive person that I am I go out of my way to avoid my white face offending FoMoCo and its subsidiaries. "Diversity is job one." Back when Ford was an American company quality was job one. My how things change.

RE: "When did dual citizenship with Mexico become legal?"

Uh, 12:01PM 20 Jan., 2001 I think.

[jocon307]

Well, one day real soon (too soon) I will be buying a new car. It ain't gonna be a Ford. I thought they had "a better idea", but now I see they are overly concerned with pleasing the editorial board of the NY Times.

This guy should be relocated to Guadalajara.

[Redleg Duke]

There are other domestic automobiles I can buy besides "El Fordo"!

"El Fordo" has lost another customer.

[OpusatFR]

""I've lived overseas and I know, to get integrated into a new society, you have to have ID in that society," said Padilla, a Detroit native who now has dual citizenship in the United States and Mexico."

A US citizen does not have dual citizenship. Or has this changed?

[sarcasm]

See:

Experts: `Transnational citizens' will change U.S.-Latin relations

[joesnuffy]

Dual citizenship is a bad idea...
No man can serve two masters either he will love the one and hate the other or hate the one and love the other..
A house divided against itself cannot stand.

[Dante3]

Padilla should be required to give up his American citizenship.

[skip2myloo]

There already is in place an internationally recognized process for Mexicans (and other foreigners) to possess valid ID while in the U.S.A.

It's called a passport.

Just like all other law-abiding foreign nationals, they apply to their respective countries for a passport.

Once they receive a passport issued by their own country of citizenship - they take it to the nearest U.S. Consular Office and apply for a Visa to visit the U.S.A. legally.

Then, during their legal, lawful stay in the United States, they will possess a valid ID.

SIMPLE.

[taxed2death]

I'm curious too. If I got dual citizenship with Mexico, could I get free health care and housing from the US too?

[1rudeboy]

BMW, the new Nissan truck . . . .

[taxed2death]

As a US citizen, you can "buy" citizenship from Monaco, New Zealand (rather expensive there, you must deposit $1,000,000.00 cash in a NZ account first. A pretty good way to keep out the riff-raff though), Costa Rica, Belize, and a few more. Many extremely wealthy (former) American citizens have taken this one step further and have turned in their PP at American Consulates around the world, to relieve themselves of the responsibility of paying taxes in the US. Clintoon tried unsucessfully to put a stop to this. But there's a lot of wealthy Americans who don't want to go down with the ship.

[snopercod]

When I flew Delta last week, I was required to show a government issued photo-ID to board the plane. They were very specific about that.

But come to think of it, they didn't say which government...

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Here’s the clincher. We have all had a good laugh over the years about “FoMoCo” here in Panama because it translates into Spanish as: “Phew!!! Snot.!!!

[sarcasm]

Not even government ID

To access these new checkpoints you will be required to present a BOARDING PASS and PHOTO IDENTIFICATION.  Tickets and ticket confirmations (such as a travel agent or airline itineraries) will no longer be accepted at these checkpoints.

[snopercod]

It's way beyond the information in your link, and is in force now at all airports, not just those on the list.

Enroute from ONT to AVL via ATL, I had to show my government issued photo ID 5 times. Checked baggage was 100% X-rayed. Every single passenger had to remove his or her shoes and belts, as well as jewelry, watches, and pocket change at the screening station. I was patted down once, and had to unbutton my blue jeans (must have been that large bulge down there, eh?)

After that experience, I'll never fly commercial again if I can help it.

The few people I spoke with agreed with me that the Taliban have won.

[lelio]

I'm waiting to see the first "James Padilla" faked Matricula Consular cards.