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.
Lol, I like comment #2, the real mistake was not sending our troops into Mexico City instead of Iraq.
Hey Felipe! Not to worry. Your country will soon receive a large influx of Mexicans willing to do the jobs that Mexicans won’t do because they don’t exist in your pathetic third world corrupt backwater country.
The only ‘grave error’ here is that you and politicians like you in Washington gravely underestimated the fierce determination of the American people to get their country back.
That was what the National Guard was for: To stay home and Guard the Nation at her borders.
Pobrecito.
Grave error Calderon? Pound sand. Whatcha gonna do about it?
No thanks to Teddy the Swimmer's previous immigration "reforms"
Now it's funny to hear that Bozo say that.
I mean, does Mexico have open immigration? They yap about how great immigrants are all the time. As long as they are Mexicans colonizing the U.S.
So a little hypothetical: What would Mexico think if, say, 50 million Chinese decided to "immigrate" to Mexico over the next coupla years? Think they'd welcome them with open arms?
50 million is about 3% of China's population. No big deal, they won't miss them.
But it would instantly make Mexico a Chinese country.
But hey, they always talk about how great immigration is. So put up or shut up, right?
Fat chance.
Besa me cula snore Presidente
Hey, Felipe, why should your problems be my responsibility to solve? How many centuries do you expect to lurch around, doing everything wrong, and get away with it? Your nation has a long history, of screwing up big time. We didn’t do it, you need to fix it, we have enough to do here! I’m not a “racist” Felipe, I likely have more “indigenous” blood in my veins than your Spanish butt has ever seen.
Tsiya
I’m pretty mexicanned out myself...
I see you've been celebrating.......
THAT’s what I THINK TOO! Make Mexico the 51st State. If they’re going to invade....at least we ought to get some resources for it.
Just for the record, that quote was from the Mexican co-President with Jorge Bush, not from me.
Says in my most diplomatic voice.. “Blow it out your a**!”
“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.”
Oh my. We better get them back in session to vote on this again.
We don’t want to upset Felipe.
So El Presidente, how/why is this keeping you from transforming your third world sh*thole country into a modern, respected, industrial one?
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