Posted on 03/28/2006 4:41:04 AM PST by billorites
Mexicans cheered the proposal approved yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee to legalize undocumented migrants and provide temporary work visas, and credited huge marches of migrants across the United States as the decisive factor behind the vote.
Mexican President Vicente Fox said the vote was the result of five years of work dating to the start of his presidential term in 2000, and puts Mexico one step closer toward the government’s goal of “legalization for everyone” who works in the United States.
“My recognition and respect for all the Hispanics and all the Mexicans who have made their voice heard,” Fox said. “We saw them turn out this weekend all across the United States, and that’s going to count for a lot as we move forward.”
Some Mexican media outlets were even more euphoric, predicting final approval for the committee bill as drafted, and suggesting the weekend demonstrations showed Mexico still holds some sway over former territories which it lost in the 1846-48 Mexican-American War.
“With all due respect to Uncle Sam, this shows that Los Angeles has never stopped being ours,” reporter Alberto Tinoco said on the Televisa television network’s nightly news broadcast, referring to a Saturday march in Los Angeles that drew an estimated 500,000, mainly Mexicans.
But U.S. ambassador Tony Garza warned Mexicans yesterday that the proposal still faces a long, difficult path through Congress.
“The debate will no doubt be heated and at times contentious,” Garza wrote in an open letter distributed in Mexico City. “The debate in the Senate is only one part of the lengthy process.”
The bill is designed to strengthen enforcement of U.S. borders, regulate the flow into the country of so-called guest workers and determine the legal future of the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally.
The bill would double the Border Patrol and authorizes a “virtual wall” of unmanned vehicles, cameras and sensors to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border. It also allows more visas for nurses and agriculture workers, and shelters humanitarian organizations from prosecution if they provide non-emergency assistance to illegal residents.
The most controversial provision would permit illegal aliens currently in the country to apply for citizenship without first having to return home, a process that would take at least six years.
Fox has been pushing for a migration accord that would grant some form of legal status to many of the estimated 6 million undocumented Mexicans in the United States. He is likely to bring up the topic when he meets with President Bush starting Thursday in Cancun.
Although a bill granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is unlikely to be approved by Congress, Fox remains hopeful that at least a guest-worker program will be put in place before he leaves office on Dec. 1.
If the United States approves such a program, it would bolster Fox’s image and aid the prospects of Felipe Calderon, presidential candidate for Fox’s National Action Party, or PAN, said George Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William & Mary.
“Fox is looking for some way to be remembered in history,” Grayson said.
Illegal migration has emerged as a significant issue in the campaigns of Mexico’s three major presidential hopefuls for the July 2 elections, and the United States has asked Mexico to do more to strengthen security along their common border.
Ahhhhhh the smell of capitulation, in the morning.
This will do nothing but encourage them.
hmmm
and credited huge marches of migrants across the United States as the decisive factor behind the vote.
!!!Arriba!!!
" Mexicans cheered the proposal approved yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee to legalize undocumented migrants and provide temporary work visas, and credited huge marches of migrants across the United States as the decisive factor behind the vote. "
The fact that we are even approving such a proposal makes me sick to my stomach ...Mexachina here we come ...
For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:
“With all due respect to Uncle Sam, this shows that Los Angeles has never stopped being ours,”
I'm not too sure what kind of respect if any that shows to our forefathers who've spilled their blood for this great nation.
Does this sound like "assimilation" to anyone?
Oh well, I guess I'd better enroll on a spanish course before my next business trip to the states. . . .
Next is dual citizenship, then another wave of illegals like this country has never seen before, then sucession from the union, then AZTLAN is theirs. One third of America will then be owned by Mexico without ever firing a shot. They were counting on politically correct Americans that weren't willing to fight for their own country and they were right. The message to the rest of the wold is "COME ON IN....WE WILL NOT PROTECT OUR BORDERS"
Returned my RNC membership card to Mr. Mehlman last night.
I refuse to support a GOP which openly advocates a proposal which puts my kids and grandkids in jeopardy of gangbanger drug cartels, not to mention the fact that illegals are dragging our schools into the dregs of third world-ism.
I am ashamed of the GOP US senators, and will work actively against all Republicans (and Democrats) who support this idiotic amnesty plan in sheeps clothing.
New wave of illegals comin' lookin' forward to establishin' their presence here and jumpin' the line.
Hope the House doesn't go along with this.
With all the bitching going on so far, no one has yet addressed the magnitude of the problem and provided an acceptable solution. Rational ideas anyone?
It's Not Xenophobia, It's Xenonausea--It is not Xenophobia. It is Xenonausea. People are sick of having the whole world shoved down their throats at once and being told it tastes like ice cream. They are sick of every street corner and parking lot being filled with criminal aliens waiting to work off the books and outside the laws that are applied so enthusiastically to actual Americans. They are sick of pressing “1” for English. They are sick of being at war with foreign terrorists and simultaneously being economically and demographically bound more tightly to the nations producing these terrorists. They are sick of being told that the world is global or flat or smaller or at their doorstep or all coming for dinner on Tuesday
As Rush said yesterday, this is the Mexican way of legislating in the streets. We don need no steekeen representatives in DC if the laws are going to be made by how many peons are howling in the middle of the freeways of the USA. This is exactly what the Founders warned against when they established a REPUBLIC instead of a democracy. Democracy leads to mob rule. Look at Venezuela today. That may be your house the mob's leader will be kicking you out of to give to "his people."
I asked for rational, not visceral.
No you are disingenuous..you know the answers have been posted time and again.,.to repeat you just don't like the answers presented.
Restate the answers, smart ass.
Here's a question - Why is it called the Senate Judiciary Committee if they don't respect our nation of LAWS anymore than the illegals??
Next, I can't help but leap on Teddy Kennedy's (The "hero" of Chappaquiddick) remarks about these (illegals) being our neighbors, and the people who go to church with us and run the stores and blah, blah, blah. We know what he's been drinking but, if he really believes that BS, why not just throw open the gates of the prisons and let those folks out, too? After all, before they were thrown in prison, they were our neighbors and the people who went to church with us . . . . . . .
What's the difference between one lawbreaker and another?
What does it say on the statue of liberty? I believe it says, give me your poor, your tired, and hungry.
We ned to just make Mexico a state and be done with it.
All I can say is the politics is the art of the possible.
I wonder if there are enough Americans to do the work. If there are, they should be calling 866-347-2423 to report employers who hire illegals instead of them.
Yes - it's rather simple.
1) Build a wall - stop any further illegal immigration.
2) Any time an illegal immigrant is stopped by the police, or has any dealings with government officials and is found to be here illegally - send them back home.
Will it be acceptable? To most Americans, yes - to the illegal immigrants, no.
And too many choose to ignore the fact that there may not be a universally acceptable solution to the disposition of 12 million illegals.
See # 36.
>>>>"Rational ideas anyone?"<<<<
Fair Tax is a start, then Military at our Borders.
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What does it say on the statue of liberty? I believe it says, give me your poor, your tired, and hungry.
Liberty is not free, never has been. It comes with sacrifice and regulation. Only then can a stanger from a foreign land become a citizen of our republic. BTW; Fox can kiss my ASS!
Build a serious wall. (Would cost less than a year of the health care we give them.)
Allow any LEO to arrest illegals.
Sieze all assets, send them back with just the clothes on their back.
Dump them in Mexico (even if they are OTM, let Fox take care of the problem, see how he likes it.)
Let Sheriff Joe handle the temporary housing.
Liberal whine - But that would be too hard - /Liberal whine off.
The poor, the tired, the hungry can enter the U.S. LEGALLY. In accordance with our immigration laws.
They are welcome if they want to obey our laws. Entering illegally is NOT obeying our laws!
yanno, if they treated illegals the way they want to treat guns, the guest worker program would be good. get them all to fill out registration, then use registration to track them all down for arrest and deportation.
The illegal aliens and the criminals who hire them and the criminals who harbor them are getting out in the street making their desires known. It is way past time those of us who support the rule of law and secure borders did the same.
Join Veterans for Secure Borders, The Minuteman Project, Latino Americans for Immigration Reform, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, and other groups protesting amnesty for these criminals, and demanding the government protect our borders.
http://www.areckoning.com/
FReepers should be at this rally in strength. Saturday, May 6, in Crawford, TX.
I don't think Emma Lazarus' poem rises to the level
of statute. We do not have to let them in.
No, of course not, but it does illustrate a difference in sentiment.
Oh, really? Christopher Hitchens has been waiting since 9/11 and the process is still not complete. That part of the immigration system is just as broken as the rest. The INS was understaffed, technologically backward and way out of date.
Saddly these marches are extremely precise in their statement that they will let Mexico coopt them but not the US coopt them to overthrow Mexican corruption...
THe illegal issue is bad enough, but actual treasonous coopting like this is beyond the pale.
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