Mexico looks to assure Americans with new immigration campaign

Charlotte Observer ^ | March 26, 2006 | HUGH DELLIOS

[FairOpinion]

MEXICO CITY - As the U.S. Senate focuses this week on the issue of illegal immigration, Mexico has launched a campaign to convince Americans that it will do more to stop the flow of undocumented workers into the United States and prevent violence along the border.

U.S. officials have praised the Mexican overtures, which include the adoption and publishing of a new immigration policy that calls for creation of economic and housing programs that would lure Mexican workers back home and an accord to better cooperate with U.S. officials on quickly responding to border crime.

While skeptics note that some of the promises clash with Mexico's long-held positions and actions, U.S. and Mexican officials say the moves reflect a rare public commitment by Mexican authorities to accept responsibility for the root causes of illegal immigration and take steps to prevent it.

The Mexican government is working toward the same goal as the Bush administration: a guest-worker program that would regulate the undocumented immigrants already in the United States and the half-million Mexicans who cross the border illegally each year. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Monday whether to approve such a bill and send it to the full Senate.

Many congressional Republicans instead favor legislation approved in the House in December that focuses only on tougher border enforcement. That legislation would extend border fences, speed deportations, make illegal immigration a felony and crack down on those who employ illegal immigrants and assist them.

[FairOpinion]

I hope Mexico isn't just doing something "to convince Americans" but will actually work on creating a better economic climate in Mexico and stop encouraging illegal immmigration to the US.

[HiJinx]

I'm From Missouri (Show Me) Ping!

[xcamel]

Or not...

[SandRat]

LESS TALK el ZORRO and more ACTION!!!

[rolling_stone]

this is funny....what have they been waiting for the last 30 years? Their leaders seem to care as much (little)about their people as ours do about us...

[stopem]

If you beleive that one....well you know the rest.

[Serenissima Venezia]

We have to speak out loud and clear that there is another side to the story - by the people who can actually vote in this country. The Senate Judiciary Committee will meet on Tuesday (I think) to make a mockery of their constituents' desires and of the Sensenbrenner bill waiting for them.

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[Lobbyist]

I'm from Missouri also.

[afz400]

If they're so serious about helping us out, then why aren't the Mexicans asking their citizens who are in America illegally to "please come home we want you back"?

[isthisnickcool]

Mexico can pay me back for all the extra tax I've had to pay in Texas to pay for the bums that have left their country.

[spectre]

Mexico sits on an ocean of oil with more yet to be discovered.

Their tourism industry generates billions a year. All that money is looted by less than 5% of the population (Elites, and politicians).

Nothing will change. You know why? They don't have to.

[Ladycalif]

[Lobbyist]

The Mexican government cannot be trusted.

[Isabelle]

undocumented workers

It's ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!!If you can't trust the Mexican government to get that name right---why trust them to do anything else---corrupt bunch of idiots!

[HiJinx]

I'm from Missouri also.

Literally? Or, as in, "Show me"? A whole bunch of us are neither ready nor willing to believe what we're being told by the folks in DC and Mexico City.

[marron]

I won't trust anyone on immigration reform until the border is secure. Anyone who starts with the assumption that it can't be done, can't be trusted on immigration reform.

Secure the border, and then we'll talk.

As for Mexico, they don't open their borders to Honduran immigrants, they aren't looking to the miracle of "cheap Honduran labor" to kick start their economy, so I see no reason to listen to their prescriptions for us.

Mexico is one of the great oil producers in the world. It is a manufacturing powerhouse, and it sells most of its goods for dollars. Mexico should not be a poor country.

Its poverty is a direct result of lawlessness, a lack of clear, enforceable law, a lack of personal security, a lack of judicial clarity. Contrary to popular reasoning, poverty does not cause crime, rather crime causes poverty. The lack of legal clarity, the lack of personal security, the lack of clear property rights, makes it difficult to invest and protect your investment. Solve that, and Mexico will become a labor importer, rather than an exporter of its people.

[just deserts]

If they're so serious about helping us out, then why aren't the Mexicans asking their citizens who are in America illegally to "please come home we want you back"?

Because they're too busy asking their citizens to "please send your MONEY back".

[TomGuy]

Even this CBS poll is showing how Americans feel:

Do You Support A Congressional Bill That Would Make Illegal Immigrants Felons?

Yes 69%
No 31%

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_084102644.html

[rrrod]

The Mexican guv is lying thru their teeth!

[Lobbyist]

Literally

[HiJinx]

Glad to have ya' aboard!

I'm in Arizona, just beyond spittin' distance from the International Border.

[FairOpinion]

"U.S. officials have praised the Mexican overtures, which include the adoption and publishing of a new immigration policy that calls for creation of economic and housing programs that would lure Mexican workers back home and an accord to better cooperate with U.S. officials on quickly responding to border crime."

Quaestion is how real this is.

[upchuck]

Please have pity on those of us stuck in 56K dialup HELL and either post small, linked thumbnails or just links.

Thanks!

[junta]

Someone ping the traitor lobby that thinks this open borders is a great idea. 500,000 insurgents wanting "their land back" and we have people on a conservative web-site actively championing a third world kleptocracy over America. We want Dane to explain why he supports these marchers.

[Shermy]

It's a cover story for Bush to cite as "proof" Mexico maybe will do something sometime in the future adverse to its financial interests as interpreted by its ruling Blanco elite. And if you suggest this you will be labeled as "uncivil."


just a guess...

[upchuck]

A whole bunch of us are neither ready nor willing to believe what we're being told by the folks in DC and Mexico City.

AMEN!

[Americanexpat]

And why should we believe the Mexican government about anything?

[Paladin2]

Mexico can just send oil for 10 years or so, and then we'll reconsider their intentions.

[just deserts]

"we have people on a conservative web-site actively championing a third world kleptocracy over America"

This bears repeating. Doesn't give me much hope either.

[skinkinthegrass]

It'll never happen
....too little real $$$$ goin' to the peons and with the Illegals' remittances comin' in from USA (see: "a Gringo Safty Valve" :^)
there's no real social reason / pressure to change
....and too much $$$$ in graft in high places in Mexico City.

[funkywbr]

If the mexicans wanna tell US something, next time someone please tell them to "SPEAK ENGLISH"!~}

[Shuttle Shucker]

Wouldn't Mexico's economy improve if its govt. stopped being so anti-foreigner? Here's a potentially astonishing related thread which details how FLAGRANTLY anti-gringo Mexico's immigration laws are compared to our own:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1602610/posts

Can you believe it? Why doesn't the media cover this information (yet)? That would set the race-baiters still in their tracks! Couldn't we stop the amnesty juggernaut if we figured out how to expose how racist MEXICO's own immigration laws are, maybe through a massive letters to the editor campaign and calls to talk show hosts and our politicians?

[Fawn]

Ping to GWB!

[skinkinthegrass]

Even this CBS poll is showing how Americans feel:
Do You Support A Congressional Bill That Would Make Illegal Immigrants Felons?

That Would Make The Illegal's Immigrants Employers Felons?

(MUCHO) BETTER. :^/

[stopem]

"web-site actively championing a third world kleptocracy over America

URL of that website please.Thanks.

[CowboyJay]

"While skeptics note that some of the promises clash with Mexico's long-held positions and actions, U.S. and Mexican officials say the moves reflect a rare public commitment by Mexican authorities to accept responsibility for the root causes of illegal immigration and take steps to prevent it."

Hate to sound cynical, but consider the source. A former Mexican Consulate is one of the main agitators involved in the recent parades extolling the virtues of criminal immigrants.

They're just creating PR spin to try and keep HB 4437 from passing the Senate. They know that it will cut-off two of their biggest income streams: illegal narcotics and illegal aliens sending money back home.

[Uncle Vlad]

I'll try and read the article again when I stop laughing.

[dalereed]

You're dreaming, the spanish that run Mexico will never let any mexicsn have anything or attain a position of prominance.

[jerry639]

I won't trust anyone on immigration reform until the border is secure. Anyone who starts with the assumption that it can't be done, can't be trusted on immigration reform.

I won't trust anyone on immigration reform until I see Illegal Mexicans being deported back to Mexico in mass.

[Tammy8]

The Mexican government cannot be trusted.

That is probably the understatement of the year!!

[Cobra64]

"...undocumented workers..."

God, I hate that expression. W uses it too. I'd like to be a fly on the wall when Rummy and Dick discuss the topic.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Mexico looks to assure Americans with new immigration campaign"

What are they going to do, print their how to pamphlet in English for illegal entry into the US?

[RS]

"That Would Make The Illegal's Immigrants Employers Felons?"

The simple solution that noone seems to want to talk about - Punishing the American traitors who jeopardize our National Security for Cash.

[JoeFromSidney]

Mexico sits on an ocean of oil with more yet to be discovered.

There's an important difference between Mexico and the US. If oil is discovered in my back yard, I'll be rich. If oil is discovered behind a Mexican's house, he gets nothing. The government owns the oil and doesn't have to pay the householder a cent.

With incentives like that, who would even want to have oil discovered near them?

[djf]

Mexico looks to assure invade Americans with new immigration campaign

There. I fixed the title.

[skinkinthegrass]

the Illegal Immigrant's Employer a Felon?"...The simple solution that none seems to want to talk about....

Yup...maybe this HB (if fully funded w / teeth) might address the problem on our side of the border...
Of course; the best solution is (and most painful) is prompt economic / social reforms in Mexico City....or there'll be a (sooner, not if later) violent / bloody revolution in Mexico.

[freeangel]

I wonder if the new immigration campaign includes rallies of thousands of illegals waving mexican flags and demanding "their civil rights?"--or maybe informing the American public of plans by some of their esteemed citizens to assasinate border patrol?

[B4Ranch]

"The Mexican government cannot be trusted."

Neither can ours!

[Frank T]

How does waving Mexican flags reassure anyone? If they ditched them and took up American ones, then maybe these protesters would have a point.

[who knows what evil?]

As the U.S. Senate focuses this week on the issue of illegal immigration, Mexico has launched a campaign to convince Americans that it will do more to stop the flow of undocumented workers into the United States and prevent violence along the border.

Enough of your lies.