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.
Hey Jerk-water Cauldron boil and Cauldron bubble . . .
blather on bobble-head.
Duplicitous globalist elitist arrogant . . . When you let Americans get away with stuff in Mexico that your citizens routinely get away with here . . .
MAYBE
THEN
we will bother to notice that you breathe air and take up space f*rt-face.
Wull... Hoooooooooooo wudunt??? hoppygurl, iszatchew???
I would like to see a valid ID required to wire money internationally. I would like to see any money wired to Mexico by an illegal alien to be seized as the ‘proceeds resulting from the commission of a crime.’
These Mexican politicians have no shame.
SIT DOWN! Bus driver
If the President of Mexico is upset, then we did the right thing to kill this bill.
Dear Mr. Mexican President, (Not my president so I don’t need to know his name.)
You might want to spend more time running your own country.
As Whitney Houston said: “Kiss my a@#!!!”
Along with incredible natural resources, there’s a ton of beautiful beach front property. Let’s get the US developers on the case, it’ll be a done deal by December, lol.
Yes we have! The Katrina "evacuees" living on the dole here for another FEMA extension to frikin' March 2009 has our blood boiling over about all of this crap! Hell! I work and I am paying for illegals and damn lazy assed Katrina "victims" straight off the Liberal Plantation. And if I get laid off, does the US government pay for my mortgage until March 2009!? Hell no!
If you try to cross Mexico’s southern border they will shoot you! Enough said!!!!
Toddsterpatriot says bite me.
Seems folks don’t know how this Country operates,,and it seems some that do,,don’t like it..Screw Them..
True, but he and his buddies wouldn't have as much personal wealth as they do if they did that.
Bump!
In other words, the President of Mexico thinks that the United States’ citizens should be ignored and that the Senators should “rule” by “elitist privilege”....
Yeah sure..., maybe that works in Mexico...
Regards,
Star Traveler
Well put.
Good summary.
Sweet!
Hey Felipe, This Is Not Your Freakin’ Country. Shove Your Opinion.
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