Posted on 07/07/2007 5:46:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mexico's foreign secretary said that the failure of an immigration reform bill last week "aggravates" the problem of illegal immigration in the United States and "cancels the possibility that millions of families may progress."
"These are hard times for immigrants in the United States," Patricia Espinosa said Friday night in Atlanta, where she had traveled to mark the 30th anniversary of the opening of Mexico's consulate general in the city. The celebration was attended by consular officials from Mexico and other countries, as well as by Georgia officials, including Secretary of State Karen Handel.
"Millions of human beings are forced to live in the shadows, in the margins of society," she said. "Families are divided, migrants are abused, and almost 400 lives are lost each year in the attempt to reach this country under inhuman and dangerous conditions."
Addressing the audience of more than 200, Espinosa said the Mexican government, particularly through its consulates, will continue to demand that Mexican workers and their families are treated with dignity "independently of their migratory condition."
The Atlanta consulate has a staff of about 30 to assist an estimated 700,000 Mexicans in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. It will monitor the enforcement of new local immigration laws to make sure the rights of Mexicans are respected and will also fight to make consular IDs more broadly accepted by U.S. authorities, Espinosa said.
Espinosa, who became part of President Felipe Calderon's new government last fall, said that the contributions made by Mexican workers to the U.S. economy should be acknowledged in the heated debate over immigration reform. But she also said Calderon is working on creating better job opportunities back in Mexico to try to stem the northbound flow of workers.
Calderon, opinion makers and migrant advocates in Mexico have said that the collapse of U.S. immigration reform plans hurts Mexican workers, U.S. employers and anti-terrorism efforts.
The plan, supported by Bush, would have created a way to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants from around the world while fortifying the border. It failed in the Senate last week and it's unlikely to be revived until after the next presidential election.
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“cancels the possibility that millions of families may progress.”
apparently we’re responsible for their progress.
jódale Patricia
Enforce the border with 250 M60 machine guns.
Not to mention the thousands of men and women that will be armed with many numerous other weapons, hopefully a .50BMG being one of those weapons.
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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All she has to do is make her own country worth living in.
But it's far easier to dump her problems on us so that she and Carlos Slim Helu can keep their billions without having to face rebellion.
And isn't it interesting that the foreign secretary of another country can come on our soil, criticisze our legislation, and Condoleeza Rice says nothing?
My what weaklings they think us. Guess they're right, too.
Translation: Merde!...(or the Spainish equivalent) the jigs up if the gringos don’t take our poor and downtrodden anymore.
We will have to part with our coins instead of enjoying the Americano taxpayer foot the bill for us.
“cancels the possibility that millions of families may progress.”
apparently we’re responsible for their progress.
And apparently, the Mexican government is responsible for holding them back.
What a sad commentary on the failings of Mexico.
I was, until recently, one of those nasty “fence sitters” when it came to how to manage the illegals.
All this noise coming from the Mexican gov has made my mind up for me.
Round em up and send em home. The Mexican gov is up to no good and using this issue for it’s own purpose. S***w them.
Where to start with this crap? First of all, Mexico never addresses the reason tens of millions of its citizens risk "abuse" and their very lives to come here rather than stay in Mexico. The answer, of course, is that Mexico is one the biggest hellholes on earth -- an utter failure in every conceivable sense, and a hotbed of filth and corruption.
Secondly, the notion that their citizens are somehow "abused" up here is a shameless lie. They get free (and superior) health care and education, and are paid more for their work in one week than they get in a full year in Mexico. Some abuse.
Both the U.S. and Mexican govts are creating more resentment than they bargained for. The situation is going to get uglier than they ever imagined.
Good golly. Mexico has more natural resources than most of the countries in the world. So whose fault is it if the country is poor? The elite, who suctip up most of its wealth and who refuse to invest in their own country.
Do you have Patricia’s address? I’d like to write her and get one of these handy-dandy comic books, who knows when I’ll need help to B & E into a foreign country:
Sheer madness!
mexico’s carlos slim is now the world’s wealthiest man, surpassing bill windows vista.
a recent feature article said that he intended to step up his donations to charity.
actually, what he should do is offer JOBS.
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/WYDJ.html
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay and Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa "had a good discussion about a whole variety of different issues," US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.
Plotting? Scheming?
Migrants are abused? Really? How many Americans are abused, robbed, raped, and killed by “migrants”? These clowns are unreal. 400 die crossing the border? How many Americans die because of them being here? Thousands!
He should do something about his people in his own country.
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