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.
Yo Filipe keep your Illegals(and drug dealers, and rapists, and burglars, and drunk drivers, and assorted criminals) at home we are tired of paying their way. Get your counrty in order so they won’t be streaming into ours and ruining our social networks.
Yo Filipe keep your Illegals(and drug dealers, and rapists, and burglars, and drunk drivers, and assorted criminals) at home we are tired of paying their way. Get your counrty in order so they won’t be streaming into ours and ruining our social networks.
Hey Calderon!
Not fixing your own nation’s problems and pretending their ours is a “very grave mistake”!
Bizarre comment, since the legal immigration levels are today very high and the White House talking points were that we should like the immigration bill because it would end chain migration.
More than a tenth of Mexico's 103 million people are estimated to live in the United States, many of them illegally.
Are Mexican leaders proud of the fact that 10% of the country has to go elsewhere for a better life?
We can send one bottle of Mescal and a straw for each President and see which gets to eat the worm.
The grave error is a Mexico so filled with corruption that its citizens must look elsewhere for a life.
I don't think there's a Marxist, atheistic Virgin out there somewhere is there? I'm not into Marian theology, as you all well know, but I don't think any of us believe Mary would be thrilled with Marxism.
Sounds like it.
That's what I'm thinking.
Here are some more of Mexico’s immigration laws:
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:nhPkmXg-lJkJ:www.mnforsustain.org/Mexicos%2520Immigration%2520Law%2520in%2520US.pdf+Mexicos+immigration+laws&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us
Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:
•in the country legally;
•have the means to sustain themselves economically;
•not destined to be burdens on society;
•of economic and social benefit to society;
•of good character and have no criminal records; and
•contributors to the general well-being of the nation.
The law also ensures that:
•immigration authorities have a record of each foreign visitor;
•foreign visitors do not violate their visa status;
•foreign visitors are banned from interfering in the country’s internal politics;
•foreign visitors who enter under false pretenses are imprisoned or deported;
•foreign visitors violating the terms of their entry are imprisoned or deported;
•those who aid in illegal immigration will be sent to prison
We looked at the immigration provisions of the Mexican constitution.[1] Now let’s look at Mexico’s main immigration law.
Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society:
•Foreigners are admitted into Mexico “according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress.” (Article 32)
•Immigration officials must “ensure” that “immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance” and for their dependents. (Article 34)
•Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets “the equilibrium of the national demographics,” when foreigners are deemed detrimental to “economic or national interests,” when they do not behave like good citizens in their own country, when they have broken Mexican laws, and when “they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy.” (Article 37)
•The Secretary of Governance may “suspend or prohibit the admission of foreigners when he determines it to be in the national interest.” (Article 38) Mexican authorities must keep track of every single person in the country:
•Federal, local and municipal police must cooperate with federal immigration authorities upon request, i.e., to assist in the arrests of illegal immigrants. (Article 73)
•A National Population Registry keeps track of “every single individual who comprises the population of the country,” and verifies each individual’s identity. (Articles 85 and 86)
•A national Catalog of Foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants (Article 87), and assigns each individual with a unique tracking number (Article 91). Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned:
•Foreigners with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned. (Article 116)
•Foreigners who sign government documents “with a signature that is false or different from that which he normally uses” are subject to fine and imprisonment. (Article 116) Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons:
•Foreigners who fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished. (Article 117)
•Foreigners who are deported from Mexico and attempt to re-enter the country without authorization can be imprisoned for up to 10 years. (Article 118)
•Foreigners who violate the terms of their visa may be sentenced to up to six years in prison (Articles 119, 120 and 121). Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their visa while in Mexico – such as working with out a permit – can also be imprisoned. Under Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony. The General Law on Population says,
•“A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally.” (Article 123)
•Foreigners with legal immigration problems may be deported from Mexico instead of being imprisoned. (Article 125)
•Foreigners who “attempt against national sovereignty or security” will bedeported. (Article 126) Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter the country are themselves considered criminals under the law:
•A Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison. (Article 127)
•Shipping and airline companies that bring undocumented foreigners into Mexico will be fined. (Article 132)
I’m bettin’ they’re planning something for—maybe—the Fourth of July.
(ok, go ahead and THROW a tinfoil hat at me...)
Mercutio: "Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man."
Respectfully Sir...Kiss my A@%!
Mexico’s president should solve Mexico’s problems of corruption and incompetence, and not expect the USA to solve his problems.
bingo
Even 3% would help...
Thanks a lot....just staggering, the audacity of the Mexican gov. daring to criticize our wanting to protect our boarders, when they have such stringent laws regarding their own.
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!
Put Mitt in charge of Mexico. He would fix it in no time.
Que?
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