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.
Shall we call a waaaaaaaaammbulance for him?
Perhaps a waaaamburger and an order of French cries for him?
Once I was visiting a Mexican city just across the Texas border. In the morning, my husband was sleeping late, so I decided to take a walk and buy some sweet bread from a nearby bakery since our (nice) hotel was near a plaza. A policeman in uniform approached me and asked for money to buy himself a cup of coffee. I was kind of astounded—a city official begging a stranger for money for a cup of coffee?? He looked kind of sleepy and grouchy. I opened my wallet and gave him some change. He looked at it and said (I can’t remember his exact words, and I speak a little Spanish, but I can’t remember if he spoke English or Spanish) that he wanted paper money. I felt a definite element of threat. I got the impression that he would arrest me for jaywalking or soliciting or something if I didn’t give him some money. I gave him a dollar or two (I didn’t have much), and he went away, thank heavens.
Come get your 20 - 30 million illegal aliens. We don't want them here.
The problems weren’t being confronted before this bill so there’s no reason for Americans, born here or immigrants who came here legally and became citzens, to believe this bill would correct or confront those same problems. All this bill would do is legalize criminals, illegal aliens, who are sucking this country dry along with those on welfare and all the entitlement programs/socialism FDR started.
He should worry about his own country. It irks me when people like him, any foreign government, thinks they have any say in what goes on in this Country.
I want a fence built. I want our borders controlled. I want illegals deported. I don’t care how much it costs because the cost will be far less, imo, than it will be to allow them all our benefits or giving them amnesty when they came here illegally.
My state has a problem with illegals but most of them are muslims rather than mexicans. We have the latter problem on a lesser scale.
I agree with all those who say our borders should have been closed and protected since 9-11-01. I don’t want to hear anything about immigration reform until we secure our borders. My grandparents were legal immigrants and eventually citizens. My father was a WWII Vet. We have relatives and friends in the Military. We value this country.
Up yours, Calderon. Take your trash back....we got plenty of our own.
We should have the same illegal immigration law that Mexico has. Then, how could they bitch?
I know, I replied to your post because that’s where I saw the quote.
Hey! It’s Mexico’s problem! Not ours.
What’s wrong with this picture? The President of Mexico is mad that we want to stop the people of HIS country from sneaking into OUR country. Hmm, I guess that would spoil their plans to reclaim America.
Does this jerk even know what he’s talking about? I think he & Ted Kennedy need to READ the bill, because they make it sound like something it’s not.
On second thought, they are all liars, or they think we are the stoopidist people on this earth!
Sounds like a threat to me.
We weren’t intimated by our elitists here, we’re certainly not afraid of you Vicente Redux.
He is. Specifically, he and the "Forty Families" are worried about the Communist revolution that is going to take place if Mexico doesn't have the safety valve of unlimited immigration. All of those poor young men, forced to stay home with no work to be had, are easy recruits for the Zapatistas and other individuals with ties to Hugo Chavez and Cuba. The revolution might fail, but it would be a bloodbath - and the Mexican elite (many of whom are Friends of Bush, I might add) would suffer extensive collateral damage.
exactly. it is a grave error to Mexico, not to Americans.
tell Mr. Calderon, to start buildling housing for his 30 millon citizenry. THEY WILL BE RETURNING home.
“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. “
Give 25 billion to Mexico in exchange for taking their people back and putting them to work building the fence.
It’s true, we do need to confront this. And make them all go back to Mexico. No to reconquista.
LOVE that flag. Today I am stealing it to make it my desktop background. (No, I am not in an office, LOL. I’d be fired for sure.)
Bush promised Calderon just that. I bet both of them are equally shocked.
No thanks. Mexico already annexed southern California, and I’d like it back. Without the graffiti.
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