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.
That was my first thought as well.
Go shove a taco in your pie hole!
And what is Vice President of Mexico, Jorge Boosh, saying? Is he planning to join the Mexican president at the signing ceremony? /snort
That sounds very much like a threat, but El Presidente Jorge Bush and the rest of those crooked politicians will use it as an excuse to surrender at the first opportunity.
Man that guy is smoking crack or something.
We’ve opened the door to illegal immigration? That door was knocked down long ago, Paco
It's is "confronted" - we want the illegals OUT of our country.
We want a fence.
We want the illegals to go home.
We want them to throw out their corrupt leaders. And their cultural corruption.
Then change their "family" based culture to a "rule of law" one.
And make their country a place their citizens can find jobs.
Everyone's tired of Mexican excuses. They need to get their house in order.
..you do have one word right..BOYCOTT..besides keeping a close eye on these spineless,lazy,vote whores..it's time to take a real close look at COMPANIES WHO HIRE ILLEGALS...now say BOYCOTT
I wonder how many Nicaraguans Mexico admits every year, hmmm?
that didn't prevent a friend from getting robbed of $800 by Tijuana police last week; his "crime" - possession of pepper spray.
Oh...I thought you were talking about Mexico!
but being banned, you would never know of my kindness
There's no outcry because they send their poor and angry to us. It's Mexico that's screwing it's citizens. Not us. Go home illegals, clean up your own country.
I’ll bet it’s more like 1/3!
I don't give a flying fig!!! Build the damn fence now and make it as high as possible.....along the entire southern border.
“...to close the door on legal immigration, the only thing the Senate does is open the door to illegal immigration”
I think he just reversed ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ in that sentence.[/sarcasm]
Shove it, amigo. Quit exporting your poverty and problems here. If Mexico would enact free market reforms, you wouldn’t HAVE as much poverty as you do.
This must mean that the right thing happened today!
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