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.
e tu bendejo
I suppose we could always invade.
“”””Go home illegals,”””””
Can we start with Senator Durbin on the Senate floor yesterday after the bill failed saying that he knows some of these illegals. He stated how he gives an emergency visa every year to a woman who’s family is here.
He also stated another person he knows who’s mother is here on an expired visa and is scared and doesn’t know what to do.
Should he not turn these people in, helloooooooooo, a lawmaker helping these people, no wonder we are in the state we are in.
geeshhhhhh
Oh. go suck on a burrito, Felipe.......doused with a quart of hot sauce.
And quit acting like Americans really care about what you have to say.
You got that right
These treacherous illegals are here solely to undermne the US---financially, socially and politically.
Illegal border-crossers arrogantly assumed they were in control of OUR government, and that they would prevail, and takeover OUR country. Burying amnesty wiped the smiles off the faces of the grinning invaders.
It's time to send the suckers back where they came from.
That would be "steenkin' masses". ;)
You're right - it's an outrage.
LOL
Someone from his state should write complaints about him, or better still all of us.
You’re right - better all of us.
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