Posted on 06/12/2003 8:41:18 PM PDT by One_American
Julia Astrid Enriquez
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., June 12, 2003 (quepasa.com) - Mexican Congresswoman and president of the 57th Human Rights Commission of the State of Sonora, Eugenia Villaseñor, blamed Mexicans for the current migratory flow since, as she told Quepasa.com in an exclusive interview, migrants feel drawn towards a mirage: "they think that in the United States the easy life, in which they own everything they wish awaits for them, knowing in advance that they will have to deal with discrimination."
She said migrants should stay in Mexico and gather all the money they pay polleros (around 5 to 6 thousand dollars) in groups of 10 or 15 people to create a good business and make a living.
Sonora, a northern Mexican state sharing a 606-km-borderline with Arizona, is a very deserted zone and the door for hundreds of undocumented migrants to the United States since this is an area hard to patrol by the American authorities.
From 1997 to date, 1,986 undocumented Mexicans have lost their lives in their attempt to get to the United States and fulfill their American dream.
Nonetheless, this Congresswoman considers his proposal un appropriate since "Mexicans lack the culture of nationalism, hard work, and real love for their country to face all together the economic crisis without emigrating into the United States to try to find nonexistent utopias.
One good choice to prevent such migratory flow, she said she had proposed the Congress' Human Rights Commission, garbage collection as a good job alternative. "A simple job that can be done by poor people. They could get together and clean the streets or abandoned lots" at a good price.
The 57th Congress Legislature, which has a three-year period, will end its term in no more than two months; however, Congresswoman Villaseñor admitted that during this period, the point of migrants' human rights has not been discussed at all, neither has a bill or law been proposed on this regard.
Nevertheless, she told Quepasa.com that for the rest of the legislature's term, she would be in charge of sending recommendations for migrants to receive "a decent treat", as well as arranging pacts with the United States to organize legal jobs on the fields.
Regarding the accusations against her party, since it was the ruling party in Mexico for decades when people started to migrate towards the U.S., she said it was the businessmen?s fault because they did not have a futuristic vision and sent all their capitals to the U.S. "It is not only one party's fault", she emphasized.
Finally, she recommended Mexico's economy be reorganized so young are not forced to emigrate to other countries seeking "unreachable dreams" and also said the migration phenomenon "is everybody's fault, Mexicans' faults, drawn by such mirage. They think they will have everything, and it's not true (...) let's believe in ourselves and not suffer discrimination in other countries." QUEPASA.COM
Translated by Oscar Montes.
So back up your statement, liar.
as I find you're quite expert on the issue.
Another lie...how surprising.
You can't help yourself.
That's YOUR opinion.
Seems that he should be more aware of who's in his house considering the fear mongering he uses to deflect from Columbine.
He's either a liar, like Pelham, or stupid...don't darken that door, indeed.
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