Posted on 06/23/2006 8:16:15 AM PDT by CedarDave
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said he is no stranger to the nation's immigration issue.
The nation's only Hispanic governor, whose state is 50 percent Latino, wants help from leading black and Latino leaders to form an alliance that would protect the interests of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Richardson said documented immigrants in his state have been an asset, but more should be done by the government to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border and piggy-backing off immigrants who have tried to live and work in the country legally. "Some have brought violence, drugs and crime into the state," he said.
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Richardson said there has to be a compromise between national security and human rights. "Yes, we have to strengthen our border security, but we also have to protect the millions of immigrants who are already in America. Give them a fair chance, bring them out of the shadows. We're not talking about an amnesty," he said.
Richardson, a Democrat, said he has outlined a plan that would be beneficial to legal immigrants and states that have illegal immigrants living and working in them. He suggests that immigrants be evaluated over an 11-year period -- targeting their ability to learn English, having a clean criminal background and a commitment to following America's laws -- then offering citizenship.
In New Mexico, Richardson has implemented a system where immigrants have been given driver's licenses and state identification cards, so the state can keep updated records of them and make sure they are in the system.
"It has worked," he said. I just hope other states will follow in some form."
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Un huh. That's all the ID you need to register to vote.
What he says is treason and he should be charged with such.
So is it time to drop the "New" from "New Mexico?"
Other than press time, where is the payoff to Jesse? Can he be so dense not to realize that blacks are hurt first and most by the illegal alien invasion?
Allied against whom?
We should have Governors who protect the interests of US Citizens living in the United States..NOT undocumented aka Illegal immigrants.
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"Yes, we have to strengthen our border security, but we also have to protect the millions of immigrants who are already in America. Give them a fair chance, bring them out of the shadows."
Why?
Why do "we" HAVE to do this?
Why suck up more taxpayer monies?
"Allied against whom?"
Legitimate employers...Legitimate employees...and the US taxpayers.
Well I think it is pretty humane to send Mexico's citizens back to Mexico. Then they won't be "living in the shadows", doing those "jobs Americans won't do", etc.
Seems pretty humane to me.
Excellent point.
Coming soon (if not there already) to a city and state near you.
"Allied against whom?"
Against Whitey? Of course Whitey has been so brainwashed the last 40 years he doesn't know how to defend himself anymore.
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The deep question is how do you make Mexico a first class country. This is something that Vincente Fox has brought up frequently recently.
The trouble is that no one quite sees that the very best thing we could do for Mexico is to send their now well trained citizens home.
Suddenly Mexico would have a skilled workforce who knew something about how a world class country worked.
Think these folk would propel a great leap forward for Mexico?
I do.
Basically the ruling class in Mexico is preditory to its own detriment and will not change of its own volition--even if those changes were in its own interest. But it can be forced to change.
The Mexicans in the USA have had the picture of what a well run country looks like tatooed on the back of their eyeballs. And they'll have an idea of how to get there. Send them back to Mexico and they'll get a revolution in Mexico that'll do that country some good.
The shock troops for that would be the 12 million repatriated Mexican citizens. Having seen what a well run country looks like they would not want to be stuffed back in the old wineskin.
There's something more.
I follow water desalination research pretty closely. While water desalination costs have dropped to about a third of what they were 15 years ago--the rate at which prices will drop over the next seven years will accelerate considerably. imo in even the next five years we will see desalination costs drop to 1/10th of today's costs. Or even faster than the fall the 3/4 fall that the LLNL researchers suggest.
http://www.physorg.com/news67262683.html
Basically, the foundations are being laid today to make it economically feasable to to turn all the world's deserts green. (The proper way to look at this is to recall that cars, tv's and computers were at first rich men's toys but when prices came down they changed the world. Desalinised water is still relatively speaking -- a rich man's toy. But when the price drops sufficiently--desalinised water will change the world--because most deserts are right beside the ocean. Pumping the water 1000 miles inland will require that the scientists collapse the cost cracking out hydrogen from water. I think that this nut will be cracked sooner than desalination.)
imho cheap desalinised water will do for the republicans (if they can get this on their agenda or even the democrats if the pubbies drop the ball) what the great dam building projects & the tva of the 1930's & 40's did for democrats because 1/3 of the US is deserts. We would increase the habitable size of the USA by 1/3.
Dirt cheap desalinised water will also do things like make it possible to double the habitable size of Mexico. Cheap water is no magic bullet but it will give the Mexican Nationalists a way to dream while the Mexican people do the real work.
And desalinated water in tandem with repatriation of now skilled Mexican citizens would propel Mexico into being a world class country.
Oh and one last thing. Mexico will need a stronger dose of of the Peruvian Hernando Desoto ideas. Basically DeSoto asked the question why are some countries poor and some questions rich. His answers are being implimented successfully in countries around the world. http://www.ild.org.pe/home.htm
Hernando de Soto's organization was invited to Mexico and did some work on the question. He says that only 6 percent of Mexican enterprises are legal, the rest are informal. De Soto would provide the ideas around which the 12 million american trained Mexican returnees could rally.
There is a winner here. The winner is Mexico.
You are right, illegals have everything they need to be able to vote in NM.
Richardson has immediate family in Mexico, I believe his mother still lives there now. I think he sees NM as an extension of Mexico.
He has always been very sympathetic to the illegals, and I don't see that changing.
I have lived in NM over 25 years (this time- I also lived here as a child) I have not had the experiences you had. I do not speak Spanish and I have always felt welcome here. I have not had any issues with the Hispanics that are citizens, many of their families were in NM before it was a US state. Many of the citizen Hispanics I know do not want illegals here.
I don't consider it a third world environment, I think it has kept the rural roots, but I like that. The state government is a little third world- but that can be said of many states.
I have lived in NM over 25 years (this time- I also lived here as a child) I have not had the experiences you had. I do not speak Spanish and I have always felt welcome here. I have not had any issues with the Hispanics that are citizens, many of their families were in NM before it was a US state. Many of the citizen Hispanics I know do not want illegals here.
I don't consider it a third world environment, I think it has kept the rural roots, but I like that. The state government is a little third world- but that can be said of many states.
Actually a majority of those who are "Hispanic" in NM have ties going back to when it was part of Spain (not Mexican-mestizo)
Regarding desalination, I suggest you take a look at this article:
Duke City Firm Is Developing Devices to Desalinate and Purify 'Produced Water'
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